A city police officer assigned to work at Livingston High School has been fired and arrested for an alleged sexual relationship with a student.
Livingston Police Officer Ryan Ray Boyd, 45, was arrested Monday and charged with improper relationship between educator and student, a second-degree felony punishable by 2 to 20 years in prison.
According to a statement from the Livingston Police Department, Boyd was fired by the city on May 11 and immediately taken into custody by Texas Rangers.
Police stated that Livingston Independent School District officials notified the department on May 1 about allegations of an inappropriate relationship between the officer and a student.
As soon as Livingston PD received the report, Boyd was removed from the school campus and placed on administrative leave while the allegations were investigated.
Livingston Police Chief David Mitchell asked Texas Rangers to conduct an independent criminal investigation while his department investigated internal policy violations.
Boyd was booked into the Polk County Jail on May 11 and released the same day on a $100,000 bond.
In just the past few years, hundreds of Texas school employees—including ISD police and school resource officers—have been accused of sex crimes against students and other children.
Sanger ISD policeman Israel Demello was indicted in February on three counts of sexual assault of a child and one count each of indecency and sexual performance. The Texas Education Agency has since placed Demello on the state’s Do Not Hire Registry.
A new Educator Misconduct Reporting Dashboard displays data on the number and type of complaints filed and investigated, among other transparency efforts.
Thousands of Texas school employees have been reported to the TEA since the agency first began keeping organized records in 2021.
