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Donna ISD fires police chief, officer; TEA assigns a monitor to district

By G. Romero Wendorf

No time this week to really delve into this story, but during a school board meeting last Thursday, longtime Donna ISD Police Chief Roy Padilla was fired by the school board as was one of his lead investigators, Rudy Garza.

The terminations were based on a recommendation by the superintendent.

According to several school sources, all of whom asked to speak on condition of anonymity, after an internal investigation that lasted approximately a month was finally complete, there were several things stacked against Padilla and Garza.

Read the entire story on the e-Edition of our newspaper. http://www.etypeservices.com/Advance%20News%20JournalID455/

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