One, it is 10:05, and the meeting will be in order. Okay. So it's important that all committee members remain on camera, and I'm gonna conduct a roll call. And I ask that when I call your name, please respond that you are present. Julia Dvorak, present. Bobby Lynn Weir, Courtney McDonald? Rex Gore? Present. Thank you. Bennett Glascock? Present. Veronica Galvan? Present. Teratir Zafran. Miss Zafran, you're muted. Okay. Sorry. I'm present. Perfect. Thank you so much.
Okay. Quorum is present. So we're gonna start our meeting with a moment of silence so we can all ground ourselves before we begin. So if you'll please join me in a moment of silence now. Okay. Thank you, everyone. So I wanted to start off with a few meeting reminders. So just so everyone's aware, this meeting is being live streamed and recorded, and anything you put in the chat is part of the record. And then board members, to ensure we maintain a quorum, please keep your cameras on throughout the meeting. And, also, for purposes of recording minutes, when we have a motion,
we need a second. I'm gonna need board members to verbally second it so that we can have it in the record. So please help me with that. And then when we're voting, please raise your hand and keep it raised until I announce the results of the vote so we can have that record as well. And, everyone, please keep your microphones on mute unless you're called to speak, and be sure not to talk over one another so that our audio can pick up the transcript completely. Okay. Does anyone have any questions about the set of the meeting before we move on to our next item,
board members? Okay. Great. Then our first item of business here is going to be approving the minutes from our last meeting, and I'm gonna turn it over to miss Wolf. Good morning, committee. I have shared the screen to approve the minutes from the 11/03/2025 temporary suspension committee. And, also, I believe your counsel just joined us from the OAG, so I wanted to note that for the record as well. Great. Thank you. Members, do I have a motion? I move to approve the temporary suspension meeting minutes for 11/03/2025. Thank you,
miss Glasscock. Do I have a second? I second. Thank you, mister Gore. Are y'all ready for the question? Okay. All those in could we take the motion off the screen, actually, so I can see all the board members? Awesome. Okay. Thank you. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you so much. Okay. So now we're getting into the meat of the beating here. Okay. Board members, you should have all received the cases we're going to see today beforehand. So we can take the bulk of them in one motion unless the respondents here
today or council representing them is here today. So with that said, I am going to look down this list of participants here, and I'm gonna call on anyone that doesn't have that's not a board member or that doesn't say TEA to introduce themselves so that we know to pull that case. So let me look down the list here. Okay. Mark Lassiter? Yes. I'm present along with my client, Dalton Pearson. Okay. And that is number it's case number 9. Awesome. Thank you. What apologies. What case number is that again,
please? Case number 9 for Dalton Pearson. So we'll pull that one. Okay. Nicholas Enoch? Good morning. I'm here on behalf of Greg Michael Hatch. K. Number seven. Awesome. K. So board members will pull case number seven as well. I see Jakyra Hewitt here. I know we have her case. Yes. I'm here. Number eight board members. Number eight. Thank you. Okay. Lakeisha Ledbetter Anderson. Good morning for Naheed Akhtar.
Good to see you again. Likewise. That is case number three on the agenda. Thank you. Steven Oval? Is our OAG representative. Hey. Good to have you. Okay. I think I called on everyone. If I missed your case, please let me know now. Wonderful. Okay. So we're gonna pull out case number three, case number 78, and 9. Correct? Yes. That's what I have also. Wonderful. Do we want to vote on the block first or go down these? Why don't we take the bulk of the ones we're not pulling first,
and then we can go through the list end of your order. Then that works for me. The numbers that were called, are different than what we have on the posted agenda, so So I'm just gonna do the motion by name only, if that makes sense, so there's no confusion about numbers not matching up with names. Sure. That works for me. When you're ready with that motion, will you put it on the screen for us? And if everyone can just double check the names, I need to remove this one. I saved them all, but I removed Hewitt, Hatch, Pearson, and Akhtar. That's what I have,
Sarah. Okay. Thank you. Sarah, Pearson, still remains on the list. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Copy that. Okay. Yeah. Pearson after Hewitt Hatch. Okay. Okay. Members, do I have a motion? We're looking at motion number one here. Member Zafran, if you can turn your camera on as well. Okay. I can make this motion, so I will go ahead and do it. I call the order temporary suspension cases as listed below. These cases concern the following respondents who were arrested for an offense that is subject to temporary suspension under Texas education code section two two a point two zero three.
Eric Christopher Bratton, Amanda Driver, Sandra Denise Guidry, Sandra Randall, Evelyn Caldwell, Pamela k Davis, Jennifer Hyde, Hosen Rastiari, Ruben Rodriguez, William William d Magnus, Pietro Guistinino, Andrew m Harvey, Anthony Price junior, and Shelby Lashom. I move that the temporary suspension committee grant the application for the temporary suspension against the respondents and enter a temporary suspension order.
Do I have a second? I'll second. Thank you, miss Kirk Safran. Members, do I have any questions or discussion? Okay. Thank you for moving the motion on the screen. Are you ready for the question? All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Great. Those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Okay. So that takes us to the cases that we pulled, and I'm going to actually have Cameron go through the procedures for this, and then we will start with the case. Good morning. Everyone, respondents, respondents counsel, you will have ten minutes to address the board.
I will come off of mute and tell you when you have one minute left, and I will come off mute and tell you when your time is up. Committee members, it's very important that if you have any questions, you specifically address them to the person your question is to be it the respondent or staff. Please wait for chair Dvorak to acknowledge your question, remain on mute so we can hear everybody. Any any questions from anyone? Okay. Give it back to you, turn to work. Thank you, Cameron. And, yes, if you me if you are wanting to speak, either ask me, hold a hand up, and they give something so that I can recognize you for the record.
We have to do that in the correct order. Okay. So I actually want to start with case number three since it was post postponed at staff's request at our last meeting. So can we start there? Okay. Then let's go ahead and well, do we need the motion to pull call it to order or bring it forward? No. You can just you can just begin and say we're talking about this case and go ahead. Sorry. Just I have one quick question. Before you guys begin, do you want me to do another kind of recap, or are we good picking up where we left off?
Miss Anderson so mister Ware is staff's attorney, and he will present the staff staff's case, and then you will have an opportunity to present. And I know you sent correspondence this morning, so if you'd wish to share it with the board, mister Ware, can share that share his screen to share that with the committee. Thank you. Thank you for that question. So with that, I'm gonna turn it over to mister Ware to start us off. Great. Good morning, madam chair and committee members. Pursuant to section 22 a point two zero three of the Texas Education Code, which states that the board shall temporarily suspend an suspend an educator certification or permit
if the educator is arrested for an offense under section 22 a point two zero one subsection a. Staff submits an application for the temporary suspension for the educator certificate for Nahid Nelufa Ata. TEA was notified that respondent was arrested for the felony offense of injury to a child, an offense listed under section 22 a point two zero one subsection a of the Texas Education Code on September the special needs student, in the face on a school campus. TA was notified of this offense through a DPS hit
whereby the respondent was fingerprinted. Thank you. So now we can turn it over to miss Anderson. Yes. May I have one? May I have the details now? I'm sorry. I didn't hear I didn't know if I could proceed. Oh, yes. I was just saying I started the timer for you. Oh, thank you. As we spoke the last time at the hearing and or the the meeting, I should say, in November, my client, miss, Naheed Nachtar, was never arrested. The statute by that calls for temporary suspension of her license specifically says that she
must be arrested. I did send correspondence. I know that the kind of the crux of where we turned last time was what actually was defined as arrested. I explained last time we were here that my client had never been Mirandized. She'd never been in a jail cell. She'd never been in handcuffs. She had never been in a police car. She had never been arrested for this particular offense. Between last time and this time, I pulled and I emailed for your review the capias. A capias is essentially an arrest warrant. And in that arrest warrant,
I don't know if I can share my screen. I don't know if I have permissions to do so or not. But, if I do, I'd like to share that document with the board. But in that document, it specifically requires, the agencies to arrest miss Maheed. And then at the bottom, there's a return section that specifically says how this capias or this writ was executed. Was it executed by arresting the defendant and on a particular date and time? Was executed by accepting their bond or was it unexecuted.
And so this particular document specifically says that it was executed by accepting the bond meaning she was never formally arrested. And I know that was kind of our, I guess, our our differences at the last meeting or or we needed some points of clarification. So if I could have permission to do so, I'd like to go ahead and share that document if that document has not already been disseminated to the board members. But like I said before, in in our last meeting, the term arrest is not there's no definition in the statute,
and so we have to go to the plain meaning of that that, term. And so she was never formal. She's been charged, but she's never been formally arrested. Her liberties have not been restricted as far as being placed in a cell and having to, and not being free to leave on her own where they're entering any sort of police station or anything of that that sort. She's always been free to leave. She's not been Mirandized. She hasn't been placed in handcuffs. She hasn't been placed in a cell. She hasn't been placed in the back of a police car. She wasn't removed from one space into another space.
None of those things happen where her liberties were ever restricted or where she wasn't able to freely leave on her own. And so we're saying that per your statute, while she's been charged with the offense, she's never been arrested, that would trigger her suspension a temporary suspension of her license at this time. Thank you. Mister Ware can share that document if the board would like to see it. Sure. I'd like to see it, and I'd also like response from mister Ware about where we landed on that clarification of the definition of arrest. Alright.
First, let me know if you guys can see that. Yes. Hold on. I have two screens going. K. And yeah. And I typically use the other screen for for exhibits. So move my spiel back up and move my spiel here. Alright. Do we still see the document from miss Anderson? Yes. Alright. Like staff, as previously stated, we were notified of this, of this offense and miss Akhtar's arrest via DPS, which indicates that she was arrested.
What you're looking at, in fact, is a writ, that commands for miss Akhtar to be arrested and to be apprehended. And what you see is that it was executed by accepting a bot, which means that she was not free to leave without condition. There were actually conditions that would have prevented her from leaving. And so staff is arguing that this, in fact, does provide, proof that there was an arrest despite the fact that she was not removed from her home or wherever she would have been, at that particular time. Thank you. So members that were here on our last meeting,
this is the part that we didn't we weren't sure, how it was defined. So it sounds like now that we can see this document, and we have heard from DPS that this is in fact an arrest under what we're looking at here. It was just through a bond rather than, physically being arrested. Is that correct? May I have a quick response before you guys discuss? Cameron, what's our procedure for? That's entirely your discretion, chair Dvorak. She typically, the board operating procedures say that the respondent gets their full ten minutes at one
time. But, again, that's your discretion if you'd like to handle it. For this one, because this was one we postponed and I wanna get it right. I do wanna hear the response. Yes. Go ahead, miss Anderson. So when you submit and and I, again, we kinda went through this the last time, but when you submit for a bond, the bond does not restrict you from being free to leave. The bond, in essence, there's a bond that happens once someone has been arrested and placed in custody, and then there's a bond that happened that you can post before being arrested so
that you'd never have to be arrested. Miss, this warrant or this, KPS, so to speak, was presented before an arrest actually happened. That's why this this writ wasn't executed in the sense of being an arrest. And so that's why this document was provided to the board was to show that there was never an arrest, and your statute doesn't define arrest. And so when you look at the plain English meaning of the term arrest, there has to be some custodial detention, and that didn't happen in this case.
Miss Naheed was instructed to go and present her fingerprints and have a picture taken, and she was free to leave. She entered freely. She exited freely. No one ever took custody of her. No one ever told her she couldn't go. No one told her any of those things. Now had she not done, had she not presented herself freely, they would have executed this and there would have been an arrest, but that didn't happen. So there is no arrest, and this document proves that there wasn't an arrest.
There's an arrest date at the top of the document that you can see under the written the written letters that the arrest date is blank. All of the other things on the document are filled in, and it specifically says it was executed by accepting the bond, not an arrest. And so I think calling it an arrest is a bit premature when the document on its face shows that no arrest occurred. Thank you, miss Anderson. And thank you for being here, and thank you for working with us as we have had to do two meetings on this one now. For me and for the the intention of this committee,
this to me and moving forward should qualify as an arrest that we are looking at. We work with DPS. We rely on DPS. To me, this seems like it is an arrest. I'm not interested in the technicalities to evade what that, you know, is called for this committee. I do appreciate the work on sharing this document. I appreciate the work from TEA looking into this matter. Board members, do we have questions for either staff or the respondent at this point? Chair? Yes. Miss Glasscock.
How is it that d p how do how do we get the reports from DPS? Do they email? Do they send something monthly? How does that work? Just out of curiosity. But but DPS themselves arrest, mister Ware? Thank you for that. I'll let staff answer. I am going to defer to the investigative, to educate investigations to respond to that. Wonderful. I think David Rodriguez is here. Yes. Mister Rodriguez, would you like to respond on how we get notifications from DPS for these arrests? Sure. Happy to respond.
In short, the DPS sends us, live, really daily hits and notifications of these arrests, both the DPS and FBI. We get them through a web service called the DPS Clearing House. Government code chapter four eleven gives us access to these records as well as education code chapter 22. And, when a person is fingerprinted, whether it's force aspect certification or employment in schools, we are subscribed to DPS's clearing house, and we get notifications of any arrests or any events subsequent to the arrest.
Thank you. And then the board members Sorry. I'll go back to you. I wanted to let you know I wanted to let you know that in your materials that we received for this meeting, you can see the report that we got from DPS that has the dates and what they were pinging us for, and that's in in each case too. So it looks like it it shows up like this for us in all of these cases. It looks the same. So if you wanted to look into that, take a few minutes. You're welcome to. And also, if you have another question, please feel free to miss that spot.
No. That that was it. Thanks. Sure. Perfect. Miss Galvan, do you have a question? You're on mute right now, doctor Galvan. Thank you. Thank you for being patient. I do I I this individual posted bond. Therefore, she was not formally arrested because of the process that occurred. My question is, at what point rather than focusing on a technicality, are we not focused on the child in special ed that was slapped in the
face? Can someone, mister Ware or somebody, can you please clarify that for the for for me in particular? Because my perception and and my my my honest opinion is we're focused on was the technicality of arrest, bond rather than addressing the SPED and the slap in the face to the the student. Thank you. Thank you, miss Ellen. Mister Ware, you can if you can respond. Yeah. I'll I'll just respond that the,
the purpose of this rule is to allow the the committee to take quick and immediate action. And so for these offenses, we just look at whether they're actually identified under the applicable rules and there is an arrest. And then we verify that the, the individual identified, in the DPS is is in fact the educator, and we take those steps. We don't look into the details and and all. If it is an offense that is listed in the applicable rules, then we, you know, we present it to the committee.
Thank you. And that's actually something I should retouch on too. It's exactly what mister Ware said. Right here in this meeting, we are looking at, do we have an educator that was arrested under these charges? If it's the same person, then the answer is yes. At our last meeting, we just needed to click get clarification from DPS on what and how we're getting notified as an arrest and what that looks like. And that's what we came back this meeting with, it looks like. And just for clarity, this purpose of this committee is the temporary suspension.
It is the immediate action to protect our students. That's our job. And then then as the case proceeds, if they're proven innocent, the suspension is lifted. If they are not proven innocent, then it carries on. Right? So just for clarity's sake, I just wanna make sure I put that all out there because that's for all the cases we're gonna hear today. Board members, do we have any other questions? Miss, Turksaffrin? I had just a question. Regarding miss, Nahed Akhser, and I understand that we're going back and forth with technicalities. What has, miss Uckther's attorney what I mean,
has she gone to DPS and tried to clarify this? What have they said? And if there's because if it's if it's not an arrest, is there a I mean, have they already moved forward with, getting that, situation taken care of or not. So that's what I'm just curious as to, you know, what has been done as far as all of these technicalities. Miss McCain. I I I think that I just I really wanna bring us back to your packet and the purpose of this committee is, is it a certified educator?
Is the identity is the identity of that educator matching the arrest record? All of those other questions are are are going to be filtered out through the investigative process and and should not weigh in on any decisions made today. Today, the decisions really need to be based on is it the person? Were they arrested under the statute? And and those are what we're deliberating about today. Not that I don't value your question. It's an excellent question. It's just a little bit outside the scope of this committee right now for the purpose of the vote. Thank you. Yes. No problem.
Thank you. Thank you, Cameron. I appreciate that. Mister Gore, do you have a question? Question slash comment. In my mind, it's not a technicality in the sense that DPS has stipulated that there was an arrest. And so to the extent there's a question, the question, or or action would be relative to DPS. You know, not not being a practicing attorney, I to my understanding of common law that the term arrest in common back here is, you know, detaining someone, but that the appearing in the court,
executing a bond, whatever, and it's not a technicality. That is viewed as a rest and it's to the extent that they're subject to the court's jurisdiction. But I'm not speaking as an attorney, but so I don't know that in my mind, we're not arguing in technicality here. We're we're, you know, we're verifying that DPS, in their mind, executing arrest. And to show we verified that, then we are bound to to take action. Thank you, mister Gore. That is right. I wanna reemphasize what miss McCain was saying.
We have the information in our packet here. Our job is to verify it's the same person. TA has done that. There's no arguing about that. And then DPS's job is to verify with us that there was an arrest. They have done that. Staff has double checked that. We don't have a lot of leeway. We don't have, a lot that we can discuss beyond those items for this meeting. There is a longer process and the investigative process that goes through all of that that's outside of this committee scope. So members, with that said, do we have any other questions before we move forward?
Okay. Okay. Do we have a motion? Yes, madam chair. I put two. There's one that calls for the issuance of the temporary suspension and then one that calls for no action. Okay. Thank you. Members, do I have a motion? K. I oh, mister Gore. I call to order temporary suspension case for Nahina. As listed on the agenda, this case, concerns the respondent who is arrested for an offense that is subject to temporary suspension under Texas Education Code section two twenty two a two zero three. I move that the temporary suspension committee grant the application for the temporary suspension against
the respondent and enter a temporary suspension order. Thank you. Do I have a second? No second. Thank you, Ms. Turk Safran. Okay. Any further discussion? Are you ready for the question? All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you so much. Okay. So our next case is going to be number seven board members on our agenda for Greg Michael Hatch. I'm gonna turn it over to mister Ware to get us started. Pursuant to section 22 a point two zero three of the Texas Education Code,
staff submits an application for the temporary suspension of the educator's certificate for Greg Michael Hatch. TEA was notified that respondent was arrested for the third degree felony offense of I'm sorry. For the second degree felony of injury to a child, an elderly person, disabled person, or disabled person with reckless serious bodily injury. Or mental and offense listed under the Texas Education Code subsection 22 a point two zero one, subsection a, on 09/29/2025.
Specifically, staff was notified that the respondent force forcefully grabbed and pulled a five year old autistic child causing the child injury. Thank you, mister Ware. Any anything else before I turn it over? Okay. Then I believe we have representation for mister Hatch. Good morning, members of the committee. My name is Nicholas Enoch with the law firm of Lubin, Enoch, and Bustamante, and I represent mister Hatch. I, I I saw that in the, the statute, which is which is, really quite new in the Texas Education Code section 22 a point two zero three
d, the legislature, indicated that the board shall propose rules to implement this section. I actually looked for rules or proposed rules, and I couldn't find them. But if there are no such rules in place or even if there are, I think this fact scenario is something that that the committee and the board should think through when they're creating the rules because I think this highlights something that needs to be to be clarified. In particular, mister Hatch was arrested in September, for the offense mentioned, by mister Ware. However, since that time,
he's not been indicted, really hasn't heard much from law enforcement, and it's quite possible that he'll never be indicted or even hear from law enforcement. Based on my understanding of Texas criminal law, there's no requirement that a, alleged, criminal actor ever be notified if the charges against them are not pursued or dropped. Thus, we end up in a situation where, in theory, unless unless the this committee or the board affirmatively does something, mister Hatch and those similarly situated could end up in in in purgatory forever,
waiting to hear about criminal charges that are never pursued. So here, I'm gonna walk you through what I would like to see the committee do today. In Texas Education Code section 22 a point two zero three a, it says the board shall temporarily suspend an educator certification, if the educator is arrested for an offense listed under the provisions, which we don't take issue with. But I would I would highlight the word temporary. It's not intended to be a de facto permanent suspension in the event that you
never hear from law enforcement. So then you go to subsection three or c under that same provision of the code, and it says a suspension under this section shall remain remains in effect until the final disposition of the matter. The I think it's logical to construe that the final disposition of the matter is the certificate action, because the next sentence says, the state office of administrative hearings shall hold a final hearing on the matter not
later than the sixty first day after the day of the final disposition of any criminal charges related to the arrest to be determined whether the person's certification should be revoked. So, so if, for example, I I received a letter today, which could happen, but it doesn't have to happen from law enforcement that they're not gonna pursue the action, then the hearing is supposed to take place not less than not later than sixty one days. Likewise, if I get it if he goes to to court and loses his criminal case,
then the hearing needs to take place not less than sixty one days. But in a situation like this where you may never get notified, I think that the it's our position that subsection c provides that you can set a date by which the hearing would have to proceed. So it says again, it says the state office administrative hearings shall hold a final hearing on the matter not later than the sixty first day after the date of the final disposition of any criminal charges. And the important part there is the language not later than the sixty first day.
There's nothing in there that precludes setting the hearing prior to sixty one days. And the fact that the the legislature actually indicated that it won't take place after no later than the sixty first day would indicate that there is latitude to do the hearing prior to that. So what the long and the short of it is, my client and I respectfully request, the suspension can proceed. However, there should be a date certain by which that if if there is not a criminal charge,
that the hearing must proceed on his certificate. Otherwise, it'll never happen, in theory. Given and now just as a practical matter because of where we are in the twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six school year, I would propose that, that if criminal charges are not brought against mister Hatch by, say, June 20, which is the anniversary date of the legislation, but by 06/20/2025, then the state office of administrative hearings, shall proceed with a hearing on the matter. That and that day, I'm not waiting to that June 20 date of '20 I'm sorry,
06/20/2026, but there should be a date certain by which this thing is gonna move forward if we never hear from, from law enforcement. And I don't mind saying, I I've seen the videos of the incident. I would be greatly surprised if charges are ever brought, and if they are brought, whether they would ever be successful. So at some point, mister Hatch should be permitted to proceed with this matter on the merits and, and have it resolved. And I'm open to any questions. Thank you, mister Enoch. Miss Wolf, did you have a response? Yes. Yes. Mister Enoch,
just to kind of respond to that. So as as you stated, it's correct. Right? It stays in effect until there's been a final disposition in the matter. However, staff, it will accept any kind of evidence, like a refusal of prosecution or some kind of document that we can verify with the DA's office or law enforcement that the charges have been dropped, that the DA's office is not pursuing the charges. So while staff would not recommend a date because the statute says, remains in effect until the final disposition of the matter, We will accept and have accepted so far during this process documents that evidence you
know, refusal of prosecution, something that shows that it's not going forward. So we're more than happy to work with you on that. That would be great if we got that. Mister Enoch don't mind. Mister Enoch, I'm sorry. Your response needs to go through the chair. It's a it's a Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you. Madam chair, may I respond to that comment? Sure. Thank you. One second. I just wanted to clarify what Sarah is saying too and to respond to you a little bit from your first. You are correct. This is a new hearing, and this what you're seeing here today is a subcommittee of our larger aspect committee.
And our larger aspect committee is working on getting all of the rules in place for for this new legislation. And so I just wanted to say that I appreciate your feedback too because I would actually even request some of this to be brought to our larger committee as we're working through the rule making process because, unfortunately, we are, pretty well bound in this subcommittee on what we can and can't consider. So as you mentioned, you know, we're looking at, was there an arrest made? Is is it this educator? Is it the same person? Are we correct? Moving forward with temporary suspension?
And you are also correct that it is meant to be temporary and that it is supposed to be resolved one way or the other. So I I appreciate and hear you on the timeline. I will let you, say what you were gonna say to miss Wolfe. I just wanted to add that in before you did. So go ahead, mister Enoch. Madam chair, in response to your comment, I would I would point out I I appreciate the fact that your jurisdiction is limited, but I don't think your jurisdiction prohibits what I'm asking for because, of the way the statute is actually constructed. I do think that you can set a date by which the hearing, or the matter needs to proceed.
Getting to miss Wolf's comment, it would be terrific if we got a letter, a declination of prosecution, but the the my concern is that there is no obligation under Texas law to provide such a declination. We we if the prosecutor, for whatever reason, intentionally or through neglect or whatever, just never sends it, we'll never get it. And that that's my concern. Thank you, mister Enoch. Miss Wolf? Yeah. I I hear what you're saying, and we will take a look at our, process and procedures because we also will check with DPS because that's how we get notified.
So the arresting entity does have an obligation under law to update the system that they report to DPS is my understanding. But, yeah, feel free to reach out to us, as we move through the process. Thank you, miss Wolfe. Board members, do we have any questions, miss Turk Zafran? I did have a question. So is he saying that his SOA hearing won't take place until the until the the, the arrest or the the charges brought against him have been, have been cleared? And if so, what in general, what is our procedure?
So if he starts getting or if he submits the evidence to the education investigation, how does that process can they have the hearing before those charges, or would do we have to wait specifically on the charges that were, that were done? Thank you, miss Saffron, miss Wolf. Yes. So the statute says that the temporary suspension remains in place, until there is a final disposition. Right? So it's the final disposition of the criminal matter, that would trigger the sixty one days to go to SOA. Now so far we have not had cases go to SOA because we have had
we've received from counsel or individuals themselves. Right? Like, here's the clerk's office that shows these charges have been dropped or the status has been updated, and we verify it. And we go in and we automatically remove that temporary suspension without a SOA hearing once we receive that evidence from the person. Okay. And like he was saying, what happens if it just kinda stays in the purgatory? You know, they don't take the case or they, you know, it takes over that sixty one days. It would the temporary suspension would remain in place until we get some kind of update from the status.
Yep. Okay. Thank you. Board members, any other questions? Okay. Again, board members, you have your packet of information here. It's case number seven on our side if you wanna review any more materials before the motion. If we don't have any other questions or comments, board members, do I have a motion? Okay. I can read the motion. I call to order temporary suspension case for Greg Michael Hatch as listed on the agenda. This case concerns a respondent who was arrested for an offense that is subject to
temporary suspension under Texas Education Code section two two a point two zero three. I move that the temporary suspension committee grant the application for the temporary suspension against the respondent and enter a temporary suspension order. Do I have a second? I'll second. Thank you, miss Glasscock. Any further discussion? Are you ready for the question? All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you again, and I do appreciate your feedback as we move forward. Okay. I'm sorry. Thank you for your consideration.
Thank you, mister Knox. Okay. The next case that I have is case number eight on our agenda board members. It is for Jafira Hewitt. Mister Ware, I will let you take it from here. Pursuant to section 22 a point two zero three of the Texas Education Code, staff submits an application for the temporary suspension of the educator certificate for Jakyra Atomic Hewitt. TA was notified that the respondent was arrested for the state jail felony offense of
injury to a child, an offense listed under section 22 a point two zero one subsection a of the Texas Education Code on 09/08/2025. I'm just here to say that, I'm sorry. Let me let me recognize you. Miss Hewitt, you'll have ten minutes to respond, so go ahead. K. I'm just here to say that subject to my arrest for the incident with the child, I accept my temporary suspension of my certificate. Thank you, miss Hewitt. Board members, do does anyone have any questions?
Okay. There is a motion on the screen. Board members, do I have a motion? I'll read the motion. I call to order a temporary suspension case for Jakyra Adanick Hewitt as listed on the agenda. The case concerns a respondent who was arrested for an offense that is subject to temporary suspension under the Texas education code section 22 a point two zero three. I move that the temporary suspension committee grant the application for the temporary suspension against
the respondent and enter a temporary suspension order. Thank you, miss Kirkstaffing. Do I have a second? I'll second. Thank you, miss Glasscock. Any further discussion? Are you ready for the question? All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you for being here, miss Hewitt. Okay. Members, the last case we have before us is case number nine on our agenda. It is for Dalton Pearson. I'm gonna turn it over to mister Ware now. Pursuant to section 22 a point two zero three of the Texas Education Code,
staff submits an application for the temporary suspension of the educator certificate for Dalton Pearson. T, it was notified that Pearson was arrested for the third degree felony offense of injury to a child, elderly person, or disabled person with reckless serious bodily injury. An offense listed under section 22 a point two zero one subsection a of the Texas Education Code on 07/29/2025. Thank you, mister Ware. I believe we have representation for mister Pearson.
You'll have ten minutes. You can go ahead. Thank you. Much like the other gentleman, what we were concerned about is the fact that we may be able to obtain what's called a grand jury no bill. And for those who don't do criminal law, a grand jury no bill is where, in any case that's a felony, it has to go through a procedural grand jury who has to find there's probable cause to proceed. All we kind of want to know is we understand the law as far as this hearing is concerned, but if we are able to obtain that grand jury no bill,
what I heard before was that this body will take that as a resolution. That's what we want to know is, is that considered to be a resolution when a grand jury procedurally says you can't even meet the level that it takes to proceed, therefore Collin County is not going to proceed. Collin County will not give us a letter saying it's not going to proceed. What we can show this body is if we in fact get a no bill, the case has been no billed, which means the grand jury elected not to proceed.
Again, the reason that we're here is not to contest specifically if the suspension is lawful right now, but in perpetuity is what we're concerned about. So that's what we want to know is if we get a grand jury no bill, will this body consider it to be a close and then we can move forward? Because if it isn't, because hypothetically under the statute of limitations they can go for as long as the statute of limitations is, which might be I think three to five years in this case. That's all we want to know. Thank you, mister Lassiter. Miss Wolf. Yes. Mister Lassiter,
that is correct. If you can provide staff with a copy of the no bill and we will confirm it and then we will lift the temporary suspension. And just as a side note, so we're being very transparent. I'm not, without looking at the case. Just because we lift the temporary suspension doesn't mean that an investigation on the underlying conduct wouldn't continue by TEA and etcetera. But speaking specifically to the temporary suspension, yes, we would accept that document once verified to lift the temporary suspension. That's what we needed to know. Thank you. Board members, do do we have any questions? Okay. Well,
thank you for being here, and asking that question so we could get clarity. Board members, are you ready for a motion, and do I have a motion? A motion. Go ahead, miss Staffrin. I call to order temporary suspension case for Dalton Russell Pearson as listed on the agenda. The case concerns a respondent who was arrested for an offense that is subject to temporary suspension under Texas Education Code section 22 a point two zero three. I move that the temporary suspension committee grant the application for temporary suspension against the
respondent under a temporary suspension order. Thank you. Do I have a second? I'll second. Thank you, mister Gore. Members, any further discussion? Are you ready for the question? All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you so much. That was all the cases we had in front of us today. I also just wanted to share that for some of these cases, I hope they do get resolved quickly, and I hope things move forward. My husband's an educator. I have all the sympathy in the world. Our duty here today is to execute what we have to do here with the
intention, of course, of always protecting the students of Texas. So thank you everyone who joined us, and thank you board members, TEA staff. Is there anything else y'all wanted to say before we adjourn? Nope, madam chair. Thank you. Okay. Well, thank you so much. It is exactly 11AM, and this meeting is adjourned.