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Godley ISD trustees partially uphold two grievances; order attorney correction and training
Summary
After two level‑three grievance hearings, the Godley ISD board granted limited relief: additional training for one trustee’s safety complaint and a written correction from counsel in a separate grievance. Both motions passed unanimously after closed‑session review.
The Godley Independent School District Board of Trustees on June 8 heard two level‑three grievance appeals alleging mishandling of records and misstatements by district counsel, then voted to grant limited remedies for each.
Trustee Kayla Lane and her volunteer advocate, Georgia Head, told the board that an email Lane sent March 22 to the district safety director and the campus police chief about a safety concern later appeared publicly on a social‑media post by podcaster Ashley Keterside. "Four days later, she had Kayla's email literally in her hands and posted it for all to see," Head said during the hearing. Head and Lane argued public‑information responses did not account for how the email became public and said the matter raised student safety concerns.
Administration representatives told the board the district’s public‑information responses included emails to and from Lane and that there was no evidence staff distributed the message outside recognized protocols. "Everything was done accordance to the legal process," an administration presenter said.
After reconvening from closed session, the board voted to "deny in part and grant in part" Lane’s requested relief, granting additional staff training related to the issue while denying other requests. The motion was made by Christa Hiner and seconded by Jamie Roy and passed unanimously.
The board then considered a separate grievance filed by Anne Kubisk (the complainant was represented by an advocate). The advocate said counsel introduced documents at an earlier hearing that were not in the board packet and that some of those records were from prior school years and thus not relevant to the grievance period. The advocate asked the board to require a correction and greater transparency for parents about flagged device activity.
District administration acknowledged the documents dated from prior years and told the board that those records would not have changed the outcome of the earlier decision. After closed‑session consultation, trustees voted to "deny in part and grant in part" Kubisk’s requests, ordering a written correction to be issued by the district attorney and denying other relief. The motion was again made by Christa Hiner, seconded by Jamie Roy, and passed unanimously.
The board hearing procedure and notices cited Texas Government Code provisions for open‑meeting and grievance handling, and the board retained its practice of taking the final votes in open session after attorney consultation.
What happens next: the board’s actions require the district’s attorney to issue a written correction for the Kubisk matter and the administration to provide the additional training ordered in Lane’s case. The board did not announce further disciplinary or criminal referrals; it noted that social‑media posts about families fall outside the board’s direct jurisdiction.
