UPDATE — Saugus Union School District officials released a statement late Saturday night detailing the schools that the music specialist, suspected of contaminating elementary school children’s musical instruments with semen, taught or held workshops at.

“The individual provided several different assemblies and workshops to many of our schools,” said the SUSD news release. “At this time, law enforcement is focusing on workshops where students made “flutes” out of PVC pipe with a specific individual.

“We understand that similar workshops have taken place using a different music specialist and we are not listing those workshops because, based on our knowledge, they are not part of the investigation,” continued the news release. “We can confirm that the particular music workshop was offered in the following school years at the following locations:

We continue to work at compiling a list of the schools and grades that did receive the workshop. We received the details of this investigation on Friday, just before our District employees and families left for fall break, so we did not have time to gather all these details before people left for the week,” said the news release. “This is not an excuse; we offer this information to help explain why it will take a bit of time to gather these details.”

According to officials, the suspected teacher taught other types of programs at other schools, listed here:

Officials have confirmed that they do not believe that this individual was ever at Plum Canyon, Emblem, Highlands, Santa Clarita, or Rio Vista.

Due to the way in which the music specialist taught courses, district officials have confirmed that the suspected individual was never alone with children without teacher supervision.

“His program was an assembly or workshop, and we can confirm that our students were never without teacher supervision; they were not alone with the person being investigated,” said the news release.

Parents have been advised that if their children are in possession of a flute, they should put the instrument in a paper bag and call the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Office at 661-255-1121.

Officials also stated that the individual, because he was never alone with the children, did not go through a fingerprinting process, nor did he have a history, in accordance with California Education Code, that would have impeded his ability to be around children

“Additionally, when engaging specialists for assemblies and workshops, we vet the organizer or organizing authority, not the individuals per se,” said the release. “Given this situation, the Superintendent will be discussing with the Governing Board a process for amplifying the reports provided by organizing authorities on the individuals they hire.”

Officials continued on to say that the Superintendent has given direction for the school district to temporarily end all events with outside consultants and contractors, pending the results of an investigation.

“The District will continue to update this information at 10:00AM each day or as needed; if no additional information is available, we will indicate ‘no new information at this time’ and refresh the date and time listed below,” according to the district news release.

Emails went out to parents in both districts warning them that the California Department of Justice was conducting an investigation into an independent contractor who may have provided music education to children in the two districts, and throughout southern California.

The contractor, who is associated with the Flutes Across the World program, distributed flute-like musical instruments made of PVC pipe or bamboo to students during music lessons.

The man allegedly contaminated some of these instruments with semen.

Both districts are telling parents to take any PVC flutes and place them in a sealed bag.

“In an abundance of caution, we are asking families who may have had children in the district in this type of program, in which the students decorated PVC flutes or participated in other similar programs within the community, to remove those flutes from your child’s possession and place them in a sealed paper bag,” the letter from Castaic Union School District Superintendent Steve Doyle said.

The school districts are working with local law enforcement to determine how to have the flutes collected as evidence.

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