![]() McNeill has been a school district employee since April 2017, and while there have been some minor incidents in the past, “nothing of this magnitude” has occurred, Wheeler added. A bus driver taking the Pittsburgh Pirates from Chicago to Milwaukee on Thursday night was arrested and charged with drunken driving while transporting the team. ![]() Jason Wheeler, a Flagler County School District spokesperson, told CNN that McNeill has been placed on administrative leave and an investigation into the incident is ongoing, McNeill is facing charges including driving under the influence with passengers under the age of 18, resisting an officer without violence, and child neglect, the sheriff’s office said, adding further charges are pending. “I commend the employee who reported him to school officials.” “Thankfully, no one was hurt as a result of his actions,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said in a statement. There, he allegedly attempted to flee responding officers and was apprehended, the sheriff’s office said. After allegedly coming out of the vehicle and complaining he couldn’t breathe, McNeill was taken a nearby hospital. Instead, he allegedly then used the radio to notify district officials he was having a medical emergency, authorities said. Police say the driver took the wrong bus, picked up about 40 students from a middle school and began dropping them off at their stops, ignoring attempts by school officials to reach him by radio. McNeill, 60, allegedly arrived to work for his shift Wednesday and a coworker who noticed the smelled of alcohol alerted supervisors, the sheriff’s office said. CNN has reached out to McNeill, who was released on bond on Thursday, but has not heard back. Mark McNeill was allegedly found to have four times the legal limit of blood alcohol content at the time of his arrest, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. She is currently a consultant on humanitarian aid, gender, and program development.A Flagler County, Florida, school district bus driver accused of driving drunk while 40 middle school students were on board was arrested Wednesday, police said. Her nine years of work managing the Rights in Humanitarian Crisis for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee involved leading humanitarian response programs in Haiti, Darfur, Myanmar, Pakistan, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Japan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and Aceh. Martha has lived and worked in Latin America for 18 years and in conflict zones and refugee camps in Central America and in Cuba. Rethink Relief focuses on getting aid workers to think differently about humanitarian work and to get refugees and displaced involved in designing technologies to improve their lives in the camps and in the transition towards home. With D-Lab founder and co-director Amy Smith, she has further developed this work with through Rethink Relief. In 2009, she began to collaborate with D-Lab to see how appropriate, sustainable technologies could be used to improve the situation for communities returning from war in Northern Uganda. In emergencies like the Asian tsunami, Darfur, Somalia, the Japanese tsunami and the Haitian earthquake, Martha's focus has been on how to remedy the inequalities in humanitarian response as it is currently practiced. ![]() She has worked in conflict and emergency situations all over the globe, taught humanitarian practice at Tufts University and Brandeis University and has published extensively on issues on gender, emergency response and working in conflict situations. She is a humanitarian worker with a focus on gender and exclusion in crisis situations. Martha Thompson is co-instructor (with Amy Smith) for Humanitarian Innovation: Design for Relief, Recovery, and Rebuilding, offered for the first time in spring of 2016. ![]()
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