The Palm Beach County School Board voted to have a former teacher and a former band assistant put on the state's list of people who are barred from working at a public school after both men pleaded guilty to crimes against children in separate cases.
Norman Riemer, 55, taught science at John I. Leonard High before moving into a district role as an instructional specialist. He pleaded guilty on June 25 to lewd and lascivious exhibition for exposing himself to two 6-year-old girls inside his Lake Worth Beach home. Riemer, sentenced to two years and five months in prison, said he allowed the girls to touch him as part of a "science experiment."
He resigned from his district job in May 2025, days after his arrest.
Camilo Pina, 22, served as a volunteer
and a music/video tech for the band at John I. Leonard High before the district terminated his probationary employment in August 2025, two months after he pleaded guilty to a charge of offense against a student by an authority figure. He was sentenced to two years of probation, barred from working at any school or with children under the age of 18 and ordered not to have any contact with his victim, a then-16-year old with whom Pina was alleged to have had an inappropriate physical relationship.
The crimes Pina and Riemer pleaded guilty to are among those that, by state law, would bar someone from working in a public school or a private school that accepts taxpayer-funded vouchers. The Florida Department of Education maintains a list of people convicted of those crimes in an effort to keep them from working at a school.
District records show that the district bypassed its normal process in hiring Riemer in 1999.
The principal who hired Riemer requested a waiver for him because he twice failed a screening process. She indicated he failed the screening because he did not have an internship prior to applying for a job as a science teacher.
The records show that, as he was moving from a substitute teaching position to a full-time spot, the district did conduct the typical law enforcement background check on Riemer and reported only a couple of old traffic violations.
Riemer twice failed screening through the Urban Teacher Perceiver, a tool developed by the Gallup Organization to assist in hiring teachers who would work in an urban environment.
The Urban Teacher Perceiver has been described in multiple reviews as a tool that assesses empathy, commitment, caring and student advocacy as well as training and competence.
In addition to its actions against Riemer and Pina, the school board accepted the district police department's recommendation of a one-week suspension for Officer Christopher Delgado and the 30-day revocation of his department-issued vehicle.
A department investigation found that Delgado violated department rules in providing gifts, rides and money to a student who joined a club he started at the middle school where Delgado was assigned to work.
Department investigators examined dozens of telephone calls and text messages between Delgado and the student, whose father reported the contact as inappropriate and excessive.
The police department found no probable cause to support criminal charges against Delgado, but it determined he violated a series of department rules, including those governing relationships with students, transporting citizens in a department-issued vehicle, on-duty responsibilities and adhering to the department's standard of conduct.
Delgado can appeal the punishment through the Police Benevolent Association.
Wayne Washington is a journalist covering education and Riviera Beach development for The Palm Beach Post. You can reach him at wwashington@pbpost.com. Help support our work; subscribe today.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Schools seek bans for former teacher, band tech after guilty pleas
