Last spring, I wrote about the allegations that former St. Paul School Board president, and at that time sitting member, Al Oertwig, had used a computer at a local university library to view kiddie pr0n.

The Saint Paul Police have, at long last, officially cleared Oertwig of any wrongdoing.

Police have cleared former St. Paul school board member Al Oertwig of looking at child pornography at a university library computer, though the investigation concluded there was adult porn on the computer.

Oertwig, who had been St. Paul’s longest-serving school board member, resigned in the midst of the investigation, which began in the spring. Oertwig faces no criminal charges.

A St. Paul police sergeant filed his final report on the matter Thursday, closing the case and declaring the allegations unfounded.

From the beginning, Oertwig proclaimed his innocence in the child porn allegation but said he stepped down to avoid a distraction for the district.

“You see now it’s been closed. There was nothing there,” Oertwig, 62, said Monday. “There is no child pornography involved, and it is time to focus on my lifelong career on the school board.”

While I disagreed with Oertwig vocally and intensely on many issues – indeed, nearly every possible issue – it is good to see that he’s been cleared of this charge.