The superintendent of a northwestern Illinois school district and two employees were arrested after sharing student vaccine records, authorities said.

KWQC, the NBC affiliate in the Quad Cities, reported Timothy Farquer, the superintendent of the Mercer County School District, was charged with felony official misconduct as well as unauthorized access to medical records and computer tampering, both misdemeanors.

Two school employees in the technology department, Amberly Norton and Andrea Long, were arrested on the same charges, authorities said. If convicted, they could spend up to five years in prison.

Prosecutors alleged Farquer accessed student vaccine records, put them into a database and shared them, violating student privacy, according to court documents filed Sept. 25. Authoritie

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