Board chair Steynbach says internal emails were shared with a community member and attached to a Wyoming State Bar complaint

Board Chair Steynbach delivered a personal statement to the Goshen County School District #1 Board of Trustees alleging that one or more board members provided roughly 60 pages of her board-related emails from her law-office account to a member of the public, who then attached them to a formal complaint with the Wyoming State Bar Association.

Steynbach said the emails were board-chair correspondence sent from a law-office email account and that no board member had approached her privately about concerns before sharing the material with others. "Those emails were attached to a formal complaint to the Wyoming State Bar Association," she said, adding that her law license of 22 years has been untouched and that the complaint threatens her livelihood and malpractice reporting obligations.

She named a community member, Bob Peterson, as having received the emails and identified several people she said were involved in providing emails to that individual. She urged trustees to stop engaging in personal attacks and asked that concerns be raised directly and professionally. Steynbach said she will change her email signature to reduce perceived intimidation but said she did not misuse her office to the board's work.

Steynbach closed by listing upcoming meetings (a special board meeting for preliminary budget work and executive session on April 6; salary relations committee on April 8; the next regular meeting on April 14) and adjourned the meeting.

The allegation and the names Steynbach provided were presented to the board during her remarks; the transcript records the chair's account but no trustee provided an on-the-record response during the meeting.