Overview

• Board members Becky Carson and Ryan Deatherage reported seeing images of nude women on a television in Superintendent Ryan Walters’s office during a July 24 executive session
• Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton announced a formal investigation through the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to determine how the images appeared
• House Speaker Kyle Hilbert has demanded that Walters unlock and surrender all devices that could clarify the source of the footage
• Walters issued a statement on social media calling the allegations “categorically false” and framing them as politically motivated attacks
• Governor Kevin Stitt said he trusts the volunteer board members and warned he would be profoundly disappointed if the claims prove true