The Belton ISD Board of Trustees on Aug. 28, 2025, voted 6-0 to uphold a level 2 administrative decision maintaining a trespass order that bars a parent identified in the record as Mr. Estrada from Lake Belton High School campus.

The decision follows a grievance appeal hearing in which Estrada's counsel argued the trespass is constitutionally protected speech and overly harsh for conduct that, counsel said, occurred while picking up or dropping off children. District administration told the board the order was necessary to protect staff and students after what administrators described as repeated, escalating confrontations over several years.

Counsel for Estrada, identified in the record as Mr. Grisham, argued that the district’s disciplinary record and its characterization of Estrada’s conduct did not show the sort of “substantial disruption” required under the cases he cited. Grisham said the events began around 2020 amid disputes over COVID protocols and alleged that district investigators failed to meaningfully interview Estrada’s daughter about an alleged assault. “I really don’t expect much to change today… I just hope that you do the right thing,” Grisham told trustees during his presentation.

Belton ISD’s representative, identified in the record as Dr. Spearman, said the case was not about disagreement but about “when disagreement turns into intimidation and threats.” Dr. Spearman told the board the administration’s binder contains contemporaneous witness statements describing an April incident in which administrators said Estrada entered the campus before it opened, raised his voice at front office staff and a principal, and made statements that witnesses found threatening. Dr. Spearman summarized a security guard’s contemporaneous statement that Estrada “bowed up to him and said, ‘I am bigger and stronger than you… You don’t stand a chance,’” and said staff reported feeling unsafe after the episode.

The administration also presented a chronology of incidents it said showed a multi-year pattern of confrontational behavior on district property, and it said campus investigators substantiated that Estrada’s son used a racial slur in a separate incident that led to discipline. The administration said principals and campus staff exercised discretion in student discipline and sought to protect students and staff from future risk.

After the public portions of the hearing, the trustees met in closed session to consult with counsel under Texas Government Code §551.071 and other permitted exceptions. When the board reconvened in open session, a motion to “uphold the level 2 decision” was made and passed by a 6-0 voice/hand vote. The board clerk recorded the tally as 6 in favor, 0 opposed. The board stated it did not take any vote or action in closed session.

The board meeting packet and oral presentations referenced Texas Government Code provisions authorizing closed consultation with counsel and cited portions of the Texas Education Code used by the administration to justify exclusion of individuals from district property. Both sides referenced federal and state court precedent during argument.

Trustees did not announce additional conditions or a modified timeline for the trespass order at the meeting. The board’s certified vote means the level 2 administrative decision remains the governing action unless the district or appellant pursues further administrative or judicial remedies.

Votes at a glance: the single formal action recorded at the meeting was a motion to uphold the level 2 decision; the motion passed 6-0.