Public record · Lorcan Kilroy · not a court finding
Two investigations. One instruction nobody has on paper.
In April 2012 a classroom incident at Van Nuys High School became Los Angeles police report DR 12-09-11015. Witness statements taken by the school never sat in that file. In October 2015, during the fight over that file, a Millikan dance class became a suspected-child-abuse report that was sent to a district administrative investigation instead of a police investigation. This page is the account of the person who says both of those things were ordered.
The file is pregnant with one absence. The order itself is not in it.
What this account says happened
Lorcan Kilroy, then a Los Angeles Unified teacher, says that after the April 20, 2012 incident he spoke with Police Commissioner Steve Soboroff about witness statements that belonged with DR 12-09-11015. He says then-Attorney General Kamala Harris, in person in Los Angeles, told Chief Charlie Beck and Soboroff to keep those statements from being put back into the report, so a teacher would not be arrested for an in-class battery while the district was still in the Miramonte scandal. The City Attorney dismissed the matter on April 11, 2013. No independently harvested police witness statements are in the report Kilroy has.
He says the same hand then solved the problem of a noisy teacher. In October 2015, at Millikan Middle School in Sherman Oaks, now Louis Armstrong Middle School, a dance class taught by Melanie Kim Weiss was written up by the district’s Student Safety Investigation Team. Officer Ibarra’s suspected-child-abuse report, he says, was bounced to an administrative investigation rather than held as a crime investigation. He says Harris told Beck to make that fabrication, and that bounce, happen. The SSIT packet later filed in federal court summarizes interviews. It does not attach original student writings. No court has tried the question whether those summaries were false.
Credential papers followed. Kilroy says the Attorney General’s office and the Commission on Teacher Credentialing used an NBC letter to parents, not the Millikan summaries, to revoke his license. He served notice on Harris. The Supreme Court petitions that grew out of the firing, Nos. 18-9663 and 20-354, were not granted. They are not this story. They are how the paper became public.
The document that would end the argument
Assume the account is true. Then someone still living was in the room, on the call, or on the email. The file does not need another brief. It needs one of these:
- A writing, recording, or witness to Harris telling Beck or Soboroff to keep the Van Nuys statements out of DR 12-09-11015.
- A writing, recording, or witness to an instruction that the Millikan dance-class claims be fabricated, or that Officer Ibarra’s SCAR be sent to administrators instead of investigated as a crime report.
- The SCAR transmittal itself: who received it, what number it was given, and whether any police agency opened a file.
- Anyone who heard Soboroff acknowledge the call about the witness statements.
Until that page surfaces, the account is a theory with a police number attached. Courts have not adopted it. This site does not pretend they have.
What is already on paper, against the account
On March 19, 2026, Steve Soboroff wrote to Kilroy, with an FBI address and the Los Angeles district attorney on the copy line: “This is the first time I have heard of any of this situation. I have not spoken with Ms Harris since she was VP. Nor have I been contacted by Detective Sohlund. I have no knowledge of the Thomson situation to which you refer.” That sentence denies the call. There is no carrier record of it. A reader can hold both.
On September 24, 2026, Chief Judge Dolly M. Gee denied a motion to unseal Millikan class identifiers in CV 16-09068 to Kilroy, or to POST and the FBI. The order does not find the summaries true. It does not find them false. It leaves the names where they were.
If you were in the room
Van Nuys High School, April 20, 2012. Millikan dance class, October 6, 2015. The Police Commission, the Chief’s office, or the Attorney General’s office in those years. If you have the instruction, the transmittal, or a firsthand contradiction of either, do not send it here.
Name the report, DR 12-09-11015, or the Millikan date. This archive does not collect statements and does not contact students.