UVALDE, Texas – The principal of Robb Elementary School has been placed on administrative leave, her attorney confirmed to CNN.
Mandy Gutierrez’s attorney, Ricardo Cedillo, said Gutierrez was placed on paid leave Monday.
The school board will meet Monday evening, but the issue is not on the agenda. A district spokesperson told KSAT he could not discuss Gutierrez’s employment status.
The Texas House report released earlier this month found that Gutierrez and his assistant knew of a problem with the lock in Room 111, the classroom the gunman entered, but found that no work order was ever placed for a repair.
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The report also found that although an alert was sent to teachers and faculty that day, not all teachers received it due to poor wireless Internet signal and the fact that many teachers did not have the their phones at that time.
Gutierrez never attempted to communicate the lockdown over the school’s intercom system, according to the report.
She is the second district employee to be placed on leave after the May 24 shooting that left 19 students and 2 teachers dead.
The school board placed Police Chief Pete Arredondo on leave in June.
The board had planned to meet Saturday to consider Arredondo’s termination, but released a statement on the school district’s website Friday, saying the meeting was delayed at the request of Arredondo’s attorney.
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