ASO President impeached

Accused of multiple violations, including breaching FERPA

The Associated Students Organization (ASO) President Angel Orellana was impeached after a two-hour trial conducted by the ASO senate on Tuesday, Oct. 1.

ASO Vice President Stephanie Lopez, Club Council President Nicole Alfaro and Treasurer Brandon

Le accused Orellana of failure to attend mandatory ASO senate, finance and participatory committee meetings, failure to attend and establish mandatory office hours, and unauthorized removal of senator applications which contained private student information.

The ASO Executive Board said that Orellana violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) when they took private ASO documents out of Student Engagement Coordinator and Counselor Lara Conrady-Wong’s office.

“I made it very clear to [Orellana] that applications are not allowed to leave the senate because of the confidential information that is in the applications,” Wong said.

Orellana admitted to taking the documents, but said that it was an unintentional mistake.

“I wasn’t aware of the protocols.

I just didn’t put them back inside [Wong’s] office.” Orellana said.

“[But] your information was never in danger. There was a misunderstanding on my end, but the situation has been resolved. The applications are back [in the office.]”

The Executive Board also accused