Trial for former SRO set to start this month

Jayson Tatlock, 46, a former Bloomington High School North school resource officer, was arrested last year on a felony count of child seduction, among other misdemeanor charges.

His final pretrial hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. June 5 and his jury trial is set for 9 a.m. June 16 at the Owen County Courthouse.

Tatlock’s initial hearing for the charges was in June 2025, where he pleaded not guilty. He faces one felony count of child seduction in which a child care worker engaged in fondling or touching with a child aged 16 or 17. He also faces a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor battery charge and misdemeanor charge of furnishing alcohol to a minor.

The Spencer man previously served as an Owen County sheriff’s deputy, Seymour Police Department officer and public defender’s office investigator.

An Indiana Conservation Officer first began an investigation into Tatlock on June 18, 2024, after receiving a report of alleged sexual misconduct during a fishing trip to Cataract Falls the resource officer took with a juvenile female and now-graduated BHSN student, according to a probable cause affidavit.

In the report, the victim described feeling “pretty tipsy” before she was assaulted during the June 4, 2024 trip. She also said Tatlock expressed that he “had felt creepy for having the attraction to her.”

Tatlock told the victim he had cheated on his wife and told her she was the youngest girl he had cheated with, according to the affidavit.

Before the trip, according to court documents, the two started communicating via email and went to get lunch in Tatlock’s school-issued vehicle after the school year ended.

Tatlock allegedly admitted to getting the victim gifts, touching her during the lake trip and emailing with her.

The Bloomington high school shared a message with families and employees on June 24, 2025 describing the incident and the school’s course of action following law enforcement’s conclusion of the investigation, WTHR reported.

According to the message, the Monroe County Community School Corporation contacted the Indiana Department of Child Services on June 18, 2024, the same day it received a report from the victim’s guardian alleging an assault by a BHSN school resource officer.

MCCSC also noted that it immediately placed the resource officer on administrative leave and launched an investigation.

Owen County Prosecutor Benjamin Kim would like to remind everyone that all persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.