Preliminary hearing postponed for 2 Mercer County School District employees

MERCER Co., Ill. (KWQC) - A hearing was continued Tuesday for two Mercer County School District employees.

Amberly Norton and Andrea Long are facing charges after police said they illegally accessed students’ medical records.

In court Tuesday, the preliminary hearing for Norton and Long was continued to Oct. 20.

Norton and Long, along with the district’s superintendent, Timothy Farquer, were taken into custody on Sept. 24.

Farquer also faces the same charges for illegally accessing students’ vaccine records and putting them into a database and sharing it, violating their privacy.

Farquer is set to have his preliminary hearing on Oct. 20.