DECORAH, Iowa — The high school band director, Dustin Harland Bliven, was arrested on an allegation of 4-1/2 month relationship with a student. The criminal doesn’t go beyond alleging. “a pattern of physically touching a student in a sexual nature.” The charge is sexual exploitation by a school employee. It’s a felony subject to five years in prison. Bliven, age 48, taught not only at Decorah High School, enrollment 570. but also instructed band in the middle school.
Bliven. Has been placed on leave.