Pete Arredondo, the Texas school district police chief terminated for his actions during the Uvalde shooting, won an appeal to remove a blemish from his discharge file.
Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo, third from left, stands during a news conference outside of the Robb Elementary School, May 26, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas., the Texas school district police chief terminated for his actions on the day of a schoolhouse massacre last year, won an appeal to remove a blemish from his discharge file, according to a state think tank that studied his case file.
"The whole point of this ... discharge system is to be a red flag for hiring agencies," said Luis Soberon, a policy adviser for think tank Texas 2036 who released the report Tuesday. "If that is the primary function of this system, it doesn't work very well." When any law enforcement officer is fired in Texas, the firing agency submits a termination report to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement classifying the firing as dishonorable, general or honorable. The officer can then appeal to upgrade the classification through the State Office of Administrative Hearings.
But, winning his appeal means that he doesn't have a dishonorable discharge -- the lowest of the three tiers -- on his policing record.
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