From this morning’s Salt Lake Tribune:
The founder of a southern Utah right-wing group that claimed drag shows were grooming children for immoral purposes resigned as a teacher following allegations of inappropriate and overly familiar relationships with students.
Patricia Kent, who founded the Liberty Action Coalition, resigned from her teaching job at Hurricane Middle School in 1996 after her "relationship with her young female students became a matter of public knowledge in the school community." Kent wrote intimate notes, gave gifts to her students, and provided details of her personal problems to students, according to documents obtained by The Tribune. She also used her position to "foster intimate and dependent relationships with young teen-aged girls." Her teaching certificate was eventually suspended.
Kent unsuccessfully ran for Washington County Clerk in the 2022 midterm elections.