A former Rocky River Police Officer will serve prison time after pleading guilty to three counts of unauthorized use of property and computer systems last month.

Michael Bernhardt will spend six months in prison.

In March, he was accused of using two state law enforcement databases to get information about women and high school students, searching the databases more than 70 times over a decade. Former Rocky River officer indicted by grand jury: accused of searching databases of woman, high school students

Bernhardt also worked as a school resource officer.

He resigned from the police department and can never be a police officer again. We Follow Through Want us to continue to follow through on a story? Let us know. First Name Last Name Email What story do you want us to foll

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