CA High School Coach Arrested After Secret Locker Room Recording Found

A high school football coach in California faced arrest Friday after students found a cellphone secretly recording them while they changed inside their locker room, police stated. The device belonged to Jeffrey Pribble, a 48-year-old teacher at Tracy High School located east of San Francisco, the Tracy Police Department confirmed Saturday. Records from the school website and social media pages show Pribble serves as the varsity football head coach and works within the physical education program. His Facebook page indicates he has held this coaching role for five years and possesses 22 years of experience as an educator with the district.

Students discovered the phone Thursday when a student and several classmates found it recording inside the locker room, officials said. The group stopped the recording immediately, deleted the video files, and handed the device over to a teacher. By Thursday evening a concerned parent contacted Tracy police patrol officers which prompted school resource officers and detectives to open an investigation. The following day officers determined the phone belonged to Pribble who was arrested Friday.

The Tracy Unified School District placed Pribble on leave pending the outcome of separate criminal and district investigations, officials said. According to the Pleasanton Weekly Tracy High Principal Jon Waggle acknowledged the arrest of an employee in an email to parents. The school did not identify the teacher or the specific allegations but noted that the district was fully cooperating with police. We understand that this news may raise serious concerns in the District community. The District too is concerned about the well-being of its students and staff and is committed to holding its employees to the highest professional and ethical standards Waggle wrote. Tracy High School and all our Tracy Unified schools are proud of being safe schools. The cooperation between students parents and staff members keeps our schools safe and is important and appreciated. Thank you for your continued partnership and support.

Tracy Police Chief Sekou Millington added that the safety and privacy of the city's students remain among the department's top priorities. Our children deserve to feel safe at school and in every space where they should be able to learn grow and simply be kids Millington said. Protecting the safety privacy and well-being of our students is a responsibility we take seriously. We are grateful to the students who brought this incident to the attention of adults and to the officers and detectives who acted quickly to investigate. Fox News Digital reached out to Tracy High School for more information.