School board member admits hiding marriage to convicted murderer

A Fontana school board member admitted she lied on her campaign application about her marriage to a convicted murdered, a newspaper reported Monday.

The San Bernardino Sun reported that Fontana Unified School District vice chairwoman Leticia Garcia met her husband, Jason Garcia, in 2001 while he was incarcerated and she was working on a project for a criminology class. They married in 2002.

But in her application to run for school board last year, Leticia Garcia wrote that the marriage had ended in divorce. She told the Sun she felt it was time to come clean after her husband was released from prison Sept. 30.