Southlake, TX. (ECWd) –

FOX4-KDFW is reporting that two Carroll ISD School Board Trustees were indicted by a grand jury and arrested for violating the Texas Open Meetings Act.

They are accused of circumventing the TOMA by “communicating in a quorum” outside of an open meeting through the use of text messaging. The charge is a misdemeanor “conspiring to circumvent for secret deliberation” – by discussing board business, specifically the Cultural Competence Action Plan, in a series of private text messages.

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