Callisburg ISD removes arrested employee from campus; district letter gives no name

Callisburg ISD pulled an employee off campus and placed that person on administrative leave after an arrest, Superintendent Chris Bradshaw wrote in a letter dated Sept. 9, 2026. The letter names no one and gives no job title. Bradshaw wrote that the conduct behind the arrest happened off campus, and said the district would cooperate with law enforcement and meet its reporting requirements.

A public record in Grayson County lists Spencer Brian Brewer as booked Sept. 9, 2026, under booking number 2026-3401, on an accusation of online solicitation of a minor involving sexual conduct, with the Collinsville Police Department as the arresting agency. The record dates the alleged offense to Sept. 2, seven days before the booking. Reviewed Sept. 10, it listed no bond amount and no release date or disposition. Bradshaw's letter does not identify Brewer as the arrested employee, and the jail record documents a booking and an accusation, not a conviction.

Texas Penal Code Section 33.021(c) makes it a second-degree felony to knowingly use electronic communications to solicit a minor to meet for sexual activity, and the statute says a meeting that never takes place is no defense. The same section counts as a minor anyone younger than 17, or anyone the accused believes is younger than 17, so the charge by itself does not establish that a child was contacted.

What Texas schools owe the state changed last year. According to the Texas Education Agency, Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 571 on June 21, 2025, creating Chapter 22A of the Education Code and rewriting the reporting rules for misconduct involving educators, other employees and service providers. Under the agency's explanation, a principal has 48 hours to report evidence of covered misconduct to the superintendent, and the superintendent has 48 hours from learning of that evidence to report it to TEA and the State Board for Educator Certification. Soliciting sexual contact with a student or minor is one covered category; inappropriate communications is another. Callisburg's 2021-22 employee handbook set a rule of the district's own, giving employees three calendar days to tell a principal or supervisor about a felony arrest and requiring the superintendent to report an educator's arrest or criminal charges to TEA's investigations division.

The charge has come through North Texas courts before. Denton police said a Denton County grand jury indicted Jordan Hagen on Nov. 7, 2024, on six felony charges that included online solicitation of a minor, and said officers recovered a 15-year-old girl from an apartment after online communications. The Justice Department said Andrew Stephen Lund, a former elementary teacher in Vallejo, California, was sentenced Feb. 20, 2020, to 10 years for attempted online enticement after messaging an undercover agent he believed was a 14-year-old girl.

Reports of online enticement have climbed steeply nationwide. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children counted about 546,000 submissions in 2024 and more than 1.4 million in 2025, and names the 2024 REPORT Act's broader platform-reporting mandate as one contributor. Those figures count reports, not convictions.

TEA treats misconduct reports, open investigations, SBEC sanctions and Do Not Hire Registry listings as separate matters. Its published disciplinary-action lists carry only final actions, leaving out allegations and pending investigations, and sanctions on a certificate can include restriction, suspension or revocation.

_Editor's note: Everyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law._