March 11, 2019

EFREN T. BUTLIG, Ph D
Principal II
Cabantian National High School

Sir:

Greetings!

Last March 6, 2019 Wednesday, I personally talked to our SPA Coordinator Mrs. Nona
B. Sarmiento for some updates for our incoming Grand Recital and Exhibit. As our
conversation continues, I felt strange feeling so I told her about it. She said that there
was something going on between Ms. Pinky Montecalvo and Mrs. Teresita B. Zulueta
and I am involved on to it. I personally asked Mrs. Sarmiento if she could tell me what
is going on.

As our conversation continues, then I knew from her that there was an audio recording
came out and it was me on the audio conducting meeting with the students. I was
surprised and shocked to that the audio was even exhibited and used in the guidance
office against me. I explained my side to Mrs. Sarmiento and to Mrs. Zulueta and told
them that the meeting was conducted with my purest intention to unleash the best out
of the students output. I even asked for apology to Mrs. Zulueta if at some point she
was hurt on the statements I uttered on the audio. The conference at the guidance office
that time was resolved and settled. They were able to hear my side and I was able to
know that I was able to hurt someone’s feeling. I took it as an avenue for me to learn
and be cautious of my words.

However, I went out from the guidance office with a heavy heart and a cloud of questions
that bothers my entity. Was the audio intentionally played at the Guidance Office to pin
me down? If the audio was unintentionally recorded, why is it that it was used against
us? I don’t even know that during the conduct of our meeting, someone is turning the
recording on without my permission and after two days it was exhibited at the Guidance
Office without my consent.

Allow me to sight the protection on private communications is espoused in Republic Act

(RA) 4200 known as “An Act to Prohibit and Penalize Wire Tapping And Other Related
Violations of the Privacy Of Communication, and for Other Purpose,” which enumerates
and specifies acts that are considered as violations of private communications and the
penalties for such acts.

According to this law:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, not being authorized by all the parties to
any private communication or spoken word, to tap any wire or cable, or by using any
other device or arrangement, to secretly overhear, intercept, or record such
communication or spoken word by using a device commonly known as a dictaphone or
dictagraph or walkie-talkie or tape recorder, or however otherwise described:

It shall also be unlawful for any person, be he a participant or not in the act or acts
penalized in the next preceding sentence, to knowingly possess any tape record, wire
record, disc record, or any other such record, or copies thereof, of any communication
or spoken word secured either before or after the effective date of this Act in the manner
prohibited by this law; or to replay the same for any other person or persons; or to
communicate the contents thereof, either verbally or in writing, or to furnish
transcriptions thereof, whether complete or partial, to any other person: Provided, That
the use of such record or any copies thereof as evidence in any civil, criminal
investigation or trial of offenses mentioned in section 3 hereof, shall not be covered by
this prohibition.

“Section 4. Any communication or spoken word, or the existence, contents, substance,

purport, effect, or meaning of the same or any part thereof, or any information therein
contained obtained or secured by any person in violation of the preceding sections of
this Act shall not be admissible in evidence in any judicial, quasi-judicial, legislative or
administrative hearing or investigation.” (RA 4200)

In connection to this, I would like to ask from your good office to assists and help us in
any possible way you can.

I am hoping for your positive response towards this matter.

Very truly yours,

PHEE MAY P. DIEL

Teacher I