A Conneaut Area Senior High principal is charged with wiretapping after a meeting was recorded without notifying the staff in attendance, according to court documents.

Ed Pietroski, 43, was arraigned on a felony count of intercept communications, which was filed by Linesville Borough Police on Tuesday.

The investigation started Jan. 31, when four faculty members from the school district reported the violation to police.

A teacher told Pietroski and assistant principal Matt Vannoy she would not be able to attend a faculty meeting Nov. 15, 2021, according to investigators.

Beecause she would not be able to attend, Pietroski told her he would have Vannoy record the meeting and provide her with a copy, the search warrant said.

A staff member who helped the teacher access the recording said she was unaware the meeting had been recorded, investigators said.

A different staff member, who also reportedly received a copy of the recording, told the teacher they were not to disclose they had a recording of the meeting, according to the search warrant.

Police said they also interviewed two other teachers who attended the meeting and spoke. Both told police they were never informed the meeting was being recorded, were never asked about recording the meeting, and never received a copy of the recording. They said they learned the meeting was recorded at a union meeting a few weeks later.

Another teacher who attended the meeting also shared the same information, the search warrant said.

Police filed the charges after getting a search warrant to obtain the recording.

Pennsylvania is a two-party consent state, making it a crime to use any device to record communications, whether they are wire, oral or electronic, without the consent of everyone who is participating in the conversation.

Pietroski is scheduled to return to court April 5 for a preliminary hearing.

Erie News Now contacted school district officials about the charges and was referred to its solicitor. The solicitor called it a personnel matter and could not comment any further.