Loudoun County Public Schools former superintendent Scott Ziegler and public information officer Wayde Byard were indicted by a special grand jury after an eight-month investigation into the district’s mishandling of two sexual assault cases. 

A Loudoun County judge unsealed the indictments on Monday.

Ziegler was charged with one count of false publication, one count of prohibited conduct, and one count of penalizing an employee for a court appearance. Byard was charged with a count of felony perjury.

The indictments come after the Loudoun County school board fired Ziegler in a closed-door meeting last week after a special grand jury released a report that said district administrators pursued their own interest instead of that of their students in handling cases of student sexual assault in 2021.