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A Level III sex offender was allowed to work as a volunteer with the
Evergreen High School football team, according to Highline Public Schools.

The revelation, disclosed Thursday, prompted the school district to
rescind a job offer to the school's acting head football coach, said
Highline Public Schools spokeswoman Catherine Carbone Rogers.

The coach was to have been officially offered the football job before
officials learned the volunteer was a convicted sex offender, said
Carbone Rogers.

District Superintendent John Welch said it was the head coach's
responsibility to see that the volunteer passed a background check
before having contact with students.

The district said two female students who serve as managers with the
football team alerted authorities after the volunteer made comments
Monday that made them feel uncomfortable. He was subsequently arrested
by police for failing to register as a sex offender.

In a letter to the parents of the football players at the White Center
school, Welch said the volunteer made an inappropriate comment at
practice and the principal immediately escorted him off school grounds.
District officials also discovered that he had not completed a
criminal-background check as required.

"The individual had been on campus only twice before Monday," wrote
Welch. "The quick action by the girls who reported the incident and
school staff ensure that all contact with this person was stopped
immediately."

Carbone Rogers identified him as Lashawn Jamar Ferguson, who was
convicted of rape in 1998. He is being held without bail in the King
County Jail.

It's not the first time this year the district has faced alleged sexual
misconduct on campus.

In May, the state Department of Health issued an emergency suspension of
a health-care provider who is accused of sexual misconduct while working
in the Highline Public Schools athletic program.

Jayson Boehm, 36, had been contracted to provide first aid at athletic
events and helped manage Highline Memorial Field. He also did volunteer
work with Evergreen High sports teams and was a bus driver for the
district for a decade.

He was fired in April after the Department of Health said Boehm
conducted physical exams of 26 male adolescent students, asking them to
strip and touching their testicles.

Boehm also gave students injections and prescribed treatment for various
ailments, but lacked credentials to do so. On documentation of his
physical exams, he wrote that a doctor had performed them. He charged
some students $5 per examination.

Boehm held credentials as an emergency medical technician, massage
practitioner, nursing assistant and registered counselor. None of those
credentials would allow him to perform the examinations, said the state
Department of Health.

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