DIRECT
NAME TODD ANDREW CARLTON OFFENSE CONSPIRE TO CIRCUMVENT FOR SECRET
DELIBERATION
RACE White SEX Male AGE 48 DOB OFFENSE DATE 8/3/2020 MISDEMEANOR
3/11/1973
CASE NO, 1679612 LP. STATE OF TEXAS
CID NO, 0973131 AGENCY TARRANT CO CRIMINAL DISTRICT
ATTORNEY
COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 6
THE STATE OF TEXAS VS. TODD ANDREW CARLTON
INDICTMENT Ni
1679612
IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
‘THE GRAND JURORS OF TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS, DULY ELECTED, TRIED, EMPANELED, SWORN, AND
CHARGED TO INQUIRE OF OFFENSES COMMITTED IN TARRANT COUNTY, IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, UPON
‘THEIR OATHS, DO PRESENT IN AND TO THE 371st DISTRICT COURT, OF THE SAID COUNTY
THAT TODD ANDREW CARLTON, HEREINAFTER CALLED DEFENDANT, ON OR ABOUT THE 3RD DAY OF
AUGUST 2020, IN THE COUNTY OF TARRANT, STATE OF TEXAS, DID AS A MEMBER OF A GOVERNMENTAL
BODY, TO-WIT: THE CARROLL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES, KNOWINGLY
ENGAGE IN AT LEAST ONE COMMUNICATION AMONG A SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS THAT EACH
OCCURRED OUTSIDE OF A MEETING AUTHORIZED BY TITLE 5 SUBTITLE A CHAPTER 551 OF THE TEXAS
GOVERNMENT CODE AND THAT CONCERNED AN ISSUE WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE
GOVERNMENTAL BODY, TO-WIT: ACCEPTANCE/RECEIVING OF THE CULTURAL COMPETENCE ACTION
PLAN, IN WHICH THE MEMBERS ENGAGING IN THE INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATIONS CONSTITUTE FEWER
THAN A QUORUM OF MEMBERS BUT THE MEMBERS ENGAGING IN THE SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS
CONSTITUTE A QUORUM OF MEMBERS AND KNEW AT THE TIME THE MEMBER ENGAGED IN THE
COMMUNICATION THAT THE SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS INVOLVED A QUORUM AND WOULD
CONSTITUTE A DELIBERATION ONCE A QUORUM OF MEMBERS ENGAGED IN THE SERIES OF
COMMUNICATIONS,
AGAINST THE PEACE AND DIGNITY OF THE STATE.
Foreman of the Grand Jury