Special Uvalde School Board Meeting to Discuss Firing School Police Chief Canceled
July 23, 2022 | Texas
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (CISD) on Friday canceled a special board meeting that was scheduled to discuss whether to terminate the employment of the school district’s police chief.
The meeting was scheduled for 9 a.m. on Saturday but was canceled at the request of Arredondo’s attorney, the school board said in a statement.
“In conformity with due process requirements, and at the request of his attorney, the meeting to consider the termination of Chief Arredondo will be held at a later date which has yet to be determined,” the statement read (pdf).
In the meantime, the school district said it was cutting off Arredondo’s pay while on leave.
Arredondo was placed on administrative leave in June following growing criticism over his failure not to immediately breach the classroom where gunman Salvador Ramos was fatally shooting students at Robb Elementary School.
He faced mounting blowback from parents and officials, and at the time, around 120 Uvalde residents joined a school board meeting on June 20, calling for Arredondo to be sacked…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)
