{"id":26823,"date":"2025-04-29T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26823"},"modified":"2025-04-29T22:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:23:45","slug":"ex-school-athletic-director-gets-4-months-in-jail-for-racist-deepfake-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26823","title":{"rendered":"Ex-School Athletic Director Gets 4 Months in Jail for Racist Deepfake Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dazhon Darien, 32, who worked at Pikesville High School in Baltimore County, pleaded guilty to disturbing school operations.<\/p>\n

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A former athletic director at a Baltimore area high school who was accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic audio clip impersonating the school\u2019s principal was sentenced on Monday to four months in jail as part of a plea deal, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

The former director, Dazhon Darien, 32, pleaded guilty to disturbing school operations, a misdemeanor charge, according to the Baltimore County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office. Mr. Darien had previously faced additional charges, including theft, stalking and retaliating against a witness.<\/p>\n

According to The Associated Press<\/a>, Mr. Darien entered an Alford plea to the disturbing school operations charge, which allows defendants to maintain their innocence while pleading guilty.<\/p>\n

Mr. Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School, fabricated an audio clip that included a rant about \u201cungrateful Black kids who can\u2019t test their way out of a paper bag\u201d and disparaging comments about Jewish students, according to a statement of facts in the case used to support the guilty plea. According to police records, the audio was an attempt to smear the school\u2019s principal, Eric Eiswert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to the statement of facts, Mr. Eiswert said that there had been \u201cconversations\u201d with Mr. Darien about his contract not being renewed because of \u201chis poor performance at the school, his inability to follow clearly laid out procedures and his unwillingness to follow the chain of command.\u201d Problems with Mr. Darien began in late 2023, leading up to the audio\u2019s release, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

A lawyer listed for Mr. Darien did not respond to calls and messages on Tuesday. The Baltimore County Public Schools district declined to comment on the case. Efforts to reach Mr. Eiswert on Tuesday were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

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Dazhon Darien, 32, who worked at Pikesville High School in Baltimore County, pleaded guilty to disturbing school operations.A former athletic director at a Baltimore area high school who was accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic audio clip impersonating the school\u2019s principal was sentenced on Monday to four months in jail as part of a plea deal, according to prosecutors.The former director, Dazhon Darien, 32, pleaded guilty to disturbing school operations, a misdemeanor charge, according to the Baltimore County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office. Mr. Darien had previously faced additional charges, including theft, stalking and retaliating against a witness.According to The Associated Press, Mr. Darien entered an Alford plea to the disturbing school operations charge, which allows defendants to maintain their innocence while pleading guilty.Mr. Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School, fabricated an audio clip that included a rant about \u201cungrateful Black kids who can\u2019t test their way out of a paper bag\u201d and disparaging comments about Jewish students, according to a statement of facts in the case used to support the guilty plea. According to police records, the audio was an attempt to smear the school\u2019s principal, Eric Eiswert.According to the statement of facts, Mr. Eiswert said that there had been \u201cconversations\u201d with Mr. Darien about his contract not being renewed because of \u201chis poor performance at the school, his inability to follow clearly laid out procedures and his unwillingness to follow the chain of command.\u201d Problems with Mr. Darien began in late 2023, leading up to the audio\u2019s release, according to the statement.A lawyer listed for Mr. Darien did not respond to calls and messages on Tuesday. The Baltimore County Public Schools district declined to comment on the case. Efforts to reach Mr. Eiswert on Tuesday were unsuccessful.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26825,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26826,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions\/26826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}