Attorney charged with child porn served on board of York community arts center
A local attorney who was charged last week with child pornography served on the board of DreamWrights Center for Community Arts, a nonprofit organization that works with children and adults, Executive Director Ann Davis said.
Christopher L. Harris, 33, of Carlisle, was charged in Cumberland County last week with felony counts of child pornography, disseminating child pornography and criminal use of a communications facility.
Cumberland County District Attorney Seán M. McCormack said last week that Harris is an attorney who works in York County.
Harris was elected in January 2021 to the board of directors of DreamWrights, and he served on the human resources committee, Davis said in an email.
He did not have unsupervised or one-on-one contact with minors that the organization is aware of, she said.
He's no longer involved with the organization, Davis said.
Attorney no longer serves as solicitor for Adams County school district
Harris until recently served as solicitor for the Littlestown Area School District.
Littlestown interim Supt. Don Bell sent an email to school officials on Thursday advising them that Harris was no longer employed by Stock & Leader, the law firm representing the district.
Steve Hovis, the managing partner for Stock & Leader, said in an email last week that the firm does not comment on personnel matters.
Pennsylvania State Police started an investigation in August 2023 when a cloud storage company sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding child pornography that had been uploaded to its online storage system.
State police filed a subpoena on the account and the internet service provider, which led them to Harris' Carlisle apartment, the affidavit states. Law enforcement seized his cellphone and computer while executing a search warrant at his home.
Police discovered a video of child pornography in Harris' phone, the affidavit states. It was located in a "secure folder," which requires a password to open.
In addition, police found "a photograph of what appears to be high school aged students standing and talking to each other outside" that the affidavit states was taken on Harris' phone.
The image was edited on the phone to create a "series of images which continually zooms in to the crotch of one of the males," the affidavit states. It did not appear the students knew their photograph was being taken, the affidavit states.
Harris and his attorney did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
This article originally appeared on York Daily Record: Attorney charged with child porn no longer involved with DreamWrights
