he power to reprimand, fine and punish as well as expunge improper statements from the record. 760 P.2d 368, 371.
Again, the statute granting the power to the SPI to decertify teachers makes no mention of any power on the part of the SPI to reprimand, fine or punish a person making a false statement, or the power to expunge such a statement from the record. The opposing counsel's brief tries to introduce emotion by stating that the defendant's report consisted of the sworn statements of two young girls. But the brief makes no connection between this fact and the fact that the statements were drawn out of the girls by the defendant, the father of one of the girls, who had come into conflict with the plaintiff over another issue in the past. The longstanding ill-will between the plaintiff and the defendant over science and religion heightened the danger that the defendant might make false accusations against the plaintiff in order to dismiss the plaintiff from his job. It is just this sort of danger against which the safeguards mentioned i
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