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Vancouver Public Schools janitor sentenced in largest voyeurism case in state history

Judge hands down 10-year sentence to James D. Mattson

By Jessica Prokop, Columbian Local News Editor
Published: January 20, 2023, 4:38pm

A former Vancouver Public Schools custodian was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for secretly recording people in women’s staff restrooms at Skyview High School for nearly a decade.

The exceptional sentence — in what the case’s lead detective called “the largest voyeurism case in the history of Washington” — was twice the normal maximum sentence for a conviction of voyeurism, a class C felony.

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