New details emerge in allegations against coach

An investigation of the former baseball coach at Navarre High School was launched after students made multiple allegations against him, according to a document in his personnel file.

Kevin “Mickey” O’Quinn was accused of “kissing female students, changing student grades, inappropriate texting to students, inappropriately touching female students, meeting female students at their home after a football game, and allowing students unauthorized use of your computer,” according to a memorandum sent to O’Quinn by Santa Rosa County Superintendent of Schools Tim Wyrosdick on Jan. 25.

The memorandum informed O’Quinn that he had been removed from the high school and placed in a job at the district office pending a full investigation. It ordered him to have no contact with students until the “case has been resolved.”

O’Quinn stopped working that day and resigned two days later, according to documents in his personnel file.

At the time, which was 20 days before the school’s first baseball game, he said he was leaving for personal reasons.

“It was just a personal family decision,” O’Quinn told the Daily News on Jan. 31. “I’ve got two young kids at home and a wife who is going to school and working full time. I needed to do what’s best for them.

“It was a tough decision, tough timing, but ultimately it was the time it had to take place.”

O’Quinn could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

Wyrosdick declined to comment on the memorandum, saying, “I believe it speaks for itself.”

He did confirm that the school district has submitted a report to the Florida Department of Education’s Educational Practices Commission.

“Santa Rosa County has a legal responsibility to report any alleged instances that would possibly be a violation of the code of ethics or law,” Wyrosdick said. “Recently, we, Santa Rosa Schools, have made a report to the Educational Practices Commission. That report, by law, remains confidential.”

He said the report “involves more than one employee,” but declined to comment further. He said details of the investigation would become public after the commission completed its investigation and held a hearing.

However, he said he wanted parents to know that student safety is paramount and all allegations are investigated.

“We go to whatever depths we need to go to to try to ascertain the facts,” he said. “Sometimes it’s quick. Sometimes it takes a little more time than we anticipate.”

He declined to comment on whether law enforcement was involved, but Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Scott Haines confirmed Tuesday that the agency was investigating.

He said Navarre High’s school resource officer, who is a sheriff’s deputy, took the initial report and that the Sheriff’s Office was investigating the allegations.

Haines and Sheriff Wendell Hall refused to release any reports attached to the investigation, claiming the documents are exempt from public release.

“The report is sensitive investigative material at this point in time,” Haines wrote in an email to the Daily News on Wednesday.