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canada goose clearance sale (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File). FILE In this Aug. 14, 2018 canada goose outlet toronto file photo, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. Even as top Pennsylvania officials assail the Catholic Church over its co.(David Kidwell/Pocono Record via AP, File). FILE This undated file photo shows Isaac Sanders, who was East Stroudsburg University’s vice president for advancement, in East Stroudsburg, Pa. Even as top Pennsylvania officials assail the Catholic Church.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File). FILE This Aug. 14, 2018, file photo shows Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaking during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. Even as top Pennsylvania officials assail the Catholic.By MICHAEL RUBINKAMAssociated PressEven canada goose outlet store toronto as top Pennsylvania officials assail the Catholic Church over its cover up of clergy sexual abuse, a state agency is refusing to release a report on allegations of sexual abuse by a high ranking state university administrator despite lingering questions about how the accusers complaints were handled.In a case that bears some broad similarities to and contains important differences with the Pennsylvania church scandal that exploded in August, Pennsylvania higher education agency won agree to allow the public to see the 10 year old report on former East canada goose outlet vancouver Stroudsburg University Vice President Isaac Sanders. The report has taken on fresh significance in the wake of a new federal lawsuit by Sanders over his firing that could put Pennsylvania taxpayers on the hook for millions of dollars.The office of Pennsylvania Attorney General canada goose outlet buffalo Josh Shapiro acting as the higher ed agency lawyer says the report on Sanders remains canada goose outlet usa subject to an 8 year old confidentiality agreement and can be released. But Sanders lawyer says he “could care less” if the document is disclosed, and the students who accused Sanders of sexual assault canada goose outlet store calgary and harassment have long wanted the state evidence against him made public, only to be rebuffed by state officials.The government position that it should remain out of public view stands in sharp contrast to Shapiro well publicized effort to force the Catholic Church to be more transparent about child sexual abuse.The first term Democrat has been on a media blitz since he released a blockbuster grand jury report that found senior officials in the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania covered up widespread abuse by predator priests.Shapiro blasted church leaders for “protecting their institution at all costs” and ridiculed clergy who fought to block the release of the grand jury report, declaring “they wanted to cover up the cover up.” He now waging canada goose outlet london a legal battle against nearly two dozen priests who are fighting to keep their names blacked out of the public version of the 900 page document.”Every name of a predator priest left redacted means canada goose outlet mississauga the silencing of a victim voice,” Shapiro said last week.In the Sanders case, though, the state has long refused to share what it knows with the public.The former students at East Stroudsburg, a state run canada goose outlet parka university in the Pocono Mountains, claim Sanders used his high powered job to offer them gifts, scholarships and campus jobs, then sexually harassed or assaulted them including forced oral sex. Their lawyer portrayed him as a predator who targeted emotionally fragile black men from broken homes because he believed they be less likely to report the abuse. The state investigation into Sanders, which canada goose outlet los angeles led to his 2008 ouster, found he “exercised exceedingly poor judgment toward” students and mishandled donor funds, according to his termination letter.Sanders has never been charged with a crime and has always categorically denied sexually touching any of the men. A federal jury sided with the former university official in a 2014 lawsuit brought by the students. Sanders, who faced a similar canada goose discount uk accusation of sexual misconduct when he worked at Stillman College in Alabama in the 1990s, recently filed a wrongful termination suit against the state, alleging he was railroaded.After Sanders sued, The Associated Press asked Shapiro office and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education to release the 2008 investigative report on him. Both agencies declined the attorney general office acting on behalf of its client citing a court order still in effect from the students lawsuit.The secret document entered the federal court system after a half dozen men sued Sanders and the university canada goose outlet england in 2009. The university turned it over to the plaintiffs, but the parties agreed in court that it would be sealed from public view. It has remained that way ever since, even though the case is now over.After losing at trial, the students lawyer asked the attorney general office in 2016 to abandon the confidentiality agreement and release the report. “Failure to disclose,” wrote the attorney, Albert Murray Jr., is “tantamount to a cover up. by https://www.getcanadagooseoutlet.com the state.”The government rejected the students request.Murray declined to comment for this story.Shapiro office would not say whether he favored the report release, given his high profile assertions about the canada goose outlet real church cover up. Shapiro, who took office in 2017, did not respond to an interview canada goose outlet paypal request.”The Office of Attorney General has a legal and ethical duty to zealously represent its clients here a state university. The report is not canada goose outlet orlando ours to release; it is the client report and remains under court seal,” said Joe Grace, Shapiro spokesman.The university system, meanwhile, has relied on exceptions to Pennsylvania open records law as well as the confidentiality agreement to block requests canada goose outlet shop for the document. Spokesman Kenn Marshall said the agency doesn “plan to seek any change to the status of the report.” He wouldn elaborate.The state actions in the Sanders case and the clergy abuse cover up differ in important aspects. University officials advised the students to talk to the local district attorney, while Catholic church leaders discouraged victims from reporting to law enforcement. Sanders was fired; abusive priests canada goose outlet seattle were simply moved to new parishes. The attorney general role in each case was different, too, leading a grand jury canada goose kensington parka uk probe into church abuse while, in the Sanders case, representing East Stroudsburg interests in court.But canada goose outlet online there are also broad similarities.Just as church officials failed to report abusive clergy to law enforcement, the university system didn go to police or prosecutors with the results of its months long probe. In fact, when law enforcement officials asked for the report years ago, the higher ed agency refused, citing the confidentiality agreement.Yet the system got the report from its outside law firm in 2008 a full two years before it was sealed by a federal judge at the request of the parties canada goose outlet in the civil suit.Legal experts said the agency could have and should have turned it over.”As a general proposition, I think they had a duty to disclose,” said former federal prosecutor Gordon Zubrod. “If they were required to turn it over to a civilian party in a lawsuit, how can they say, not required to turn it over to law enforcement? That just crazy talk.” canada goose clearance sale.