I work at a school in Massachusetts. Many of our classes are recorded so that students can review them afterwards. About six months ago, an executive (Bill) reached out to the head of my department (Sally). A professor had made some inappropriate comments in one of the recordings, and a student had brought it to Bill's attention. Bill asked Sally to edit the recording and remove the comments. This task was delegated to me and one other person. It made sense, so we did it and thought nothing of it.

Fast forward to yesterday: the school's president emails the entire school about a completely unrelated incident where a professor had been behaving inappropriately. Nothing had been done by the administration after numerous students' complaints, and all those who had failed to act were promptly fired. Bill was not among them, and was in fact referenced as the executive to which these types of incidents should be reported.

At the same time, I can't stop thinking about the incident a few months ago and how, in retrospect, I basically helped to erase evidence of wrongdoing. Since Bill was already aware of it, I'm hoping that he analyzed the situation and decided that was the best course of action (among anything he did on his end), but...it still seems weird. I'm concerned that my just modifying the recording without thinking is the kind of thing that could get me fired, just as the administration was fired for failing to act on student complaints.

What should I do? Talk to my boss? The HR director? Bill? Leave it alone?
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Last year, at the direction of my department head and others, I edited a recording of a class to remove inappropriate comments made by a professor. Just recently, in an unrelated incident, much of the administration was fired for not acting properly in response to a professor's bad behavior. Could I be fired for "covering things up" even though I was acting on
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I work at a school in Massachusetts. Many of our classes are recorded so that students can review them afterwards. About six months ago, an executive (Bill) reached out to the head of my department (Sally). A professor had made some inappropriate comments in one of the recordings, and a student had brought it to Bill's attention. Bill asked Sally to edit the recording and remove the comments. This task was delegated to me and one other person. It made sense, so we did it and thought nothing of it.

Fast forward to yesterday: the school's president emails the entire school about a completely unrelated incident where a professor had been behaving inappropriately. Nothing had been done by the administration after numerous students' complaints, and all those who had failed to act were promptly fired. Bill was not among them, and was in fact referenced as the executive to which these types of incidents should be reported.

At the same time, I can't stop thinking about the incident a few months ago and how, in retrospect, I basically helped to erase evidence of wrongdoing. Since Bill was already aware of it, I'm hoping that he analyzed the situation and decided that was the best course of action (among anything he did on his end), but...it still seems weird. I'm concerned that my just modifying the recording without thinking is the kind of thing that could get me fired, just as the administration was fired for failing to act on student complaints.

What should I do? Talk to my boss? The HR director? Bill? Leave it alone?
user
I modified a recorded lesson a long time ago, and a bunch of people got fired for something unrelated to it. What should I do?
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