For more than a year, Howard County school officials concealed a series of architectural reports that depicted deplorable conditions at Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City.

One of the reports obtained by The Examiner was released 13 months after it was drafted in April of last year only after a group of parents discovered its existence and filed a Maryland Public Information Act request. Parents also discovered there were two subsequent reports. The reports were not provided to the school?s planning committee, which began investigating problems last year.