After more than six months of turning over rocks inside the Fairfield County School District, the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is, apparently, no closer now than they were in January to drawing any conclusions.

“It is still an ongoing investigation,” a SLED spokesperson told The Herald Independent recently. “We are still looking through some materials.”

After making the investigation public in January, SLED has been predictably tight-lipped on its progress. Even at the outset, Reggie Lloyd, Director of SLED, would only say the investigation was one of “matters that relate to the operation of the school district.”

“Late last year we were brought some information of allegations of what I would, at best, call improprieties,” Lloyd told The Herald Independent in January. “We’ve been looking at these allegations and evidence regarding that.”

Board Chairwoman Annie McDaniel maintains that she is unaware of the investigation, a position she has held from the beginning.

“Maybe they’ve talked to other members of the school board, but they haven’t had any contact with me,” McDaniel said. “They may be investigating me. They may not. I don’t know.”

As for district personnel, McDaniel said, “I don’t know anyone in the district they’ve talked to.”

Vice Chairman Rickey Johnson echoed McDaniel’s remarks.

“I don’t know anything about them being in the district, or for what purpose,” Johnson said.

At least one former district employee, however, said she has spoken with SLED, as well as the F.B.I., in conjunction with the investigation.

“It all had to do with the mismanagement of money,” said Lila Mae Jones, who had been with the district for 38 years, the last five of which she served as a food services manager. Jones said she spoke with SLED and the F.B.I. late last year.

More recently, former athletic director and school board chairman Harold Heath said he and two others also sat down with SLED and the F.B.I.

“We were asked about a lot of different things that weren’t necessarily above water,” Heath said of the April meeting. “It was nothing we could prove, but what we suspected was going on with money being moved around.”

Heath worked for 19 years at the district, serving as athletic director from 1993 to 2003. After retiring, he served on the school board from 2004 to 2008, serving as chairman his last year there.

Heath said a large number of documents were turned over to investigators at the time, but since then there has been no movement on the matter.

SLED would not comment on the exact nature of the investigation, or how long they expected the investigation to continue.