INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The residency complaint case filed against recently sworn in School Board member Shawn Frost has been voluntarily dismissed, according to court records.
“My family and I are thrilled that Ms. Brombach has decided to accept the facts of law and I can focus on serving the residents of Indian River County as we work together to make our school system even better,” Frost wrote in a prepared statement. “There is much to be done. I always knew this would be the eventual outcome, but I’m relieved to finally have this distraction behind us.”
The case, brought by then-School Board incumbent Karen Disney-Brombach, was dismissed on Dec. 5 when a voluntary dismissal notice was filed.
Disney-Brombach had questioned Frost’s having met residency requirements when she filed the suit in Indian River County Circuit Court following her loss to Frost in the August Primary for the District 1 School Board seat.
“While I remained deeply concerned for the integrity of the elections process I could not justify the investment of my time and energy on an expensive lawsuit,” Disney-Brombach said in a prepared statement. “The (Supervisor) of Elections office is not an agency of compliance, they are an agency of record. The citizens must rely on the honesty of a candidate and if there is reason to doubt a candidate, it is up to the citizens to respond. Numerous incidences of residency fraud are occurring in Florida. Each candidate should be willing to undergo the scrutiny of a challenge in order to satisfy the public. A candidate who reports three different addresses in one election period is, in my opinion, casting doubt.”
Frost was sworn in on Nov. 18. School Board members serve four-year terms.
