Sexual misconduct by public-school staff more than doubled between 2002 and 2007, mirroring a dramatic jump in overall wrongdoing uncovered by city school investigators. Special Schools Investigator Richard Condon said yesterday that his probers received more complaints and substantiated more cases against school workers in 2007 than in any year since the office was created in 1992. Since 2002, the number of allegations confirmed jumped by 135 percent - from 131 to 308 - and the number of complaints rose by nearly 50 percent - from 1,889 to 2,818. The surge included an 18 percent jump since 2006 in the number of verified cases and a 10 percent climb in total complaints. Of the cases substantiated in 2007, 95 were sexual in nature, including that of a 22-year-old Bronx school aide accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl. In all, Condon last year called for 186 staff members to be put on the Department of Education's list of ineligible workers. He attributed the rise in complaints, in part, to his office's getting "a fair amount of publicity over the last several years - so there's an awareness."   He said the numbers were also spurred by the larger pool of Education Department workers and by the mounting fear of prosecution for failing to report school misconduct. "We're fairly rigorous about charging someone if they mishandle a complaint," said Condon, whose office has an annual budget of about $4 million and employs seven lawyers and 45 investigators, many of them former police detectives. Among the more sensational cases last year was that of a principal accused of hosting a Santeria ceremony at her lower Manhattan high school in an attempt to cleanse the building of negative energy. School Sex Cases on Rise

DEFINITION OF AN ADULT A Pasco County ordinance intended to regulate adult businesses fails to define some of the basic terms that characterize such enterprises. County commissioners are slated to clarify the adult business ordinance at public hearings today and Jan. 22 by adding to the land development code definitions for "specified anatomical areas" and "specified sexual activities." Officials say they hope the changes will make it easier to enforce the ordinance, which last was amended in January 2003. "We haven't had a problem enforcing it," Assistant County Attorney Kristi Wooden said. "This is just a necessary change. The purpose is to better define what is an adult business." Pasco code enforcement officials and county attorneys have pursued just a handful of adult-oriented business cases during the past five years, for an average of about three a year. Wooden said the cases typically address whether a business is conducting or promoting activity outside of its purview, if it has been abandoned or otherwise is violating its grandfathered status. The 2003 ordinance permits adult-oriented businesses in industrial zones as long as they are more than 1,000 feet from a church, school, public park, office complex or neighborhood, said Lee Millard, the assistant zoning and code compliance administrator. Adult businesses that were operating on or before Dec. 17, 2002, may continue to hold valid licenses, Millard said, but if they change ownership or move, they lose their grandfathered status. Currently, there are 19 grandfathered adult-oriented businesses. Most are in west Pasco. Ordinance To Better Define 'Adult'

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