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CORPUS CHRISTI - We have continuing coverage on the West Oso High School teacher accused of sending inappropriate text messages to a female student. Earlier this month, the West Oso School Board vo… Click to Read More and see additional updates

CORPUS CHRISTI - We have continuing coverage on the West Oso High School teacher accused of sending inappropriate text messages to a female student. Earlier this month, the West Oso School Board voted to fire Christopher Williams, but Williams has appealed his termination.

District officials tell us that Williams has hired a lawyer with a law firm out of Austin, and will have a special hearing with an examiner appointed by the Texas Education Agency within 10 days.

It's expected that hearing will finally determine whether or not Williams will lose his job.

As we've reported, Williams' name has come up in at least four other incidents going back to 2005, including two arrests, but only one conviction.

Williams was placed on paid administrative leave back on January 14th, meaning that it's been forty-five days since the district's investigation began, and Williams has been getting paid the entire time.

And again, there could be up to 10 more days before that T.E.A hearing takes place.

CORPUS CHRISTI - We have continuing coverage on the West Oso High School teacher accused of sending inappropriate text messages to a female student. Earlier this month, the West Oso School Board voted to fire Christopher Williams, but Williams has appealed his termination.

District officials tell us that Williams has hired a lawyer with a law firm out of Austin, and will have a special hearing with an examiner appointed by the Texas Education Agency within 10 days.

It's expected that hearing will finally determine whether or not Williams will lose his job.

As we've reported, Williams' name has come up in at least four other incidents going back to 2005, including two arrests, but only one conviction.

Williams was placed on paid administrative leave back on January 14th, meaning that it's been forty-five days since the district's investigation began, and Williams has been getting paid the entire time.

And again, there could be up to 10 more days before that T.E.A hearing takes place.

CORPUS CHRISTI - West Oso I.S.D. will hold a special meeting on Thursday to discuss whether to formally terminate the teacher accused of sending inappropriate text messages to one of his students.

On February 4th, the school board voted unanimously to fire Christopher Williams. He had 15 days to appeal their decision, but there's no word on whether he has.

As we reported last month, the district investigated Williams after a female student at the school told officials Williams was sending her text messages.

The district has continued paying Williams since it placed him on administrative leave with pay January 14th.

The school board will meet Thursday at 6:30pm to discuss whether to terminate his contract.

CORPUS CHRISTI - In a unanimous 7-0 decision, the West Oso Independent School District's board of trustees voted to fire high school business teacher Christopher Williams after a two-hour closed-door meeting Monday night.

Williams, 29, who was previously suspended with pay, has two weeks to appeal the board's decision.

As we've reported, Williams has been suspended from the district while they investigate to see if he sent inappropriate text messages to a female student.

6 News has investigated Williams past and here's what we found.

In 2005, Williams was arrested here in Corpus Christi for a harrassment charge out Travis County. Police say that Williams made inappropriate, sexual phone calls to a woman that he went to school with at the University of Texas in Austin. Williams pled guilty to a lesser charge and received two years deferred prosecution in that case.

Then we found that Williams worked at King High School from 2006 to 2007 and resigned from the school in January of 2008. But his resignation letter makes no mention of why he's resigning, so very unclear.

Then in December 2008, 6 News received an email from C.C.P.D saying that Williams had been arrested after a woman called police from her apartment on Ennis Joslin to say that a suspicious man was stalking her.

After further investigation, police linked Williams to three separate cases on the southside of town where women said a man had exposed himself to them. 6 News was unable to find any records of a conviction on this arrest in Nueces County.

And one day after we received the email from police, the Corpus Christi School District delivered a letter to Williams discussing his arrest and connection to the indecent exposure cases. The letter reads, "For that reason, you are hereby served with notice that you are prohibited from coming on to any property owned by Corpus Christi I.S.D".

Then, in another case involving Williams in 2010, a family hired private investigators to look into his past. Those investigators tell us that Williams was in the process of getting his records expunged or wiped out. That was the same year that he was hired at West Oso High School.

So the question is: How much did the district know about Williams' past? Superintendent Elizabeth Saenz says Williams was already employed when she came on board with the district. She said part of her investigation is to find out what was known at the time of his hire.

"If there was nothing in his past, I think that's probably why they hired him," she says.

During our investigation, we made several attempts to contact Williams, but were unsuccessful.

CORPUS CHRISTI - The West Oso School District is expected to decide the fate of one of it's teacher's at their school board meeting tonight. The teacher is 29-year-old Christopher Williams, son of long time West Oso coach Roy Williams.

As we've reported, Williams has been suspended from the district while they investigate to see if he sent inappropriate text messages to a female student.

6 News has investigated Williams past and here's what we found.

In 2005, Williams was arrested here in Corpus Christi for a harrassment charge out Travis County. Police say that Williams made inappropriate, sexual phone calls to a woman that he went to school with at the University of Texas in Austin.

Williams pled guilty to a lesser charge and received two years deferred prosecution in that case.

Then we found that Williams worked at King High School from 2006 to 2007 and resigned from the school in January of 2008. But his resignation letter makes no mention of why he's resigning, so very unclear.

Then in December 2008, 6 News received an email from C.C.P.D saying that Williams had been arrested after a woman called police from her apartment on Ennis Joslin to say that a suspicious man was stalking her.

After further investigation, police linked Williams to three separate cases on the southside of town where women said a man had exposed himself to them.

6 News was unable to find any records of a conviction on this arrest in Nueces County.

And one day after we received the email from police, the Corpus Christi School District delivered a letter to Williams discussing his arrest and connection to the indecent exposure cases.

The letter reads, "For that reason, you are hereby served with notice that you are prohibited from coming on to any property owned by Corpus Christi I.S.D".

Then, in another case involving Williams in 2010, a family hired private investigators to look into his past.

Those investigators tell us that Williams was in the process of getting his records expunged or wiped out.

And that was the same year that he was hired at West Oso High School.

So the question is: How much did the district know about Williams' past?

Superintendent Elizabeth Saenz says Williams was already employed when she came on board with the district. She said part of her investigation is to find out what was known at the time of his hire.

"If there was nothing in his past, I think that's probably why they hired him," she says.

During our investigation, we made several attempts to contact Williams, but were unsuccessful.

CORPUS CHRISTI - The board of the West Oso Independent School is expected to decide the fate of one of its teachers during their meeting tonight.

We've been looking into the accusations against high school business teacher Christopher Williams for the past couple of weeks. He's currently on suspension from the district as police and school officials look into claims he sent inappropriate text messages to a female student.

Tonight at 5pm, we'll take a closer look at Williams' background and prior investigations by local authorities into allegations of misconduct before he was employed by West Oso ISD.

CORPUS CHRISTI-- The West Oso School District is expected to decide the fate of one of its teachers at their school board meeting tonight.

As we've reported, 29-year-old West Oso High School teacher Christopher Williams has been suspended while the district and the police department investigate to see if he sent inappropriate text messages to a female student.

Williams is a business teacher at the high school and is the son of long-time West Oso Coach Roy Williams.

We've been investigating Williams' past since we broke the story two weeks ago.

We will bring you new information as it becomes available.

CORPUS CHRISTI - We have new information on the West Oso High School teacher under investigation for sending possible inappropriate text messages to a female student.

6 News has recovered an email from Corpus Christi police sent to local media back in 2008, saying that Christopher Williams has been accused of indecent exposure in the past.

An email from the Corpus Christi Police Department says detectives linked Williams to three separate cases in 2008, where women reported that a man had exposed himself to them.

6 News was unable to find any records of convictions related to the arrests in Nueces County.

It started when a woman called police from her apartment on Ennis Joslin to report a suspicious man who was stalking her.

As we've reported, Williams was arrested in 2005 for harrassment in Travis County, when police say he made inappropriate, sexual phone calls to a former classmate of his at the University of Texas in Austin.

Williams is a business teacher at West Oso High School and is the son of long time West Oso coach, Roy Williams.

Williams remains on paid administrative leave as the texting investigation continues.

Our attempts to contact Williams today were unsuccessful.

CORPUS CHRISTI - We have continuing coverage on a teacher suspended from West Oso I.S.D. As we've reported, district officials and C.C.P.D are investigating to see if a male teacher at West Oso High School sent inappropriate text messages to a female student.

The teacher that's been suspended is 29 year old Christopher Williams. He's a business teacher at the high school, and the son of long time West Oso coach Roy Williams.

Superintendent Elizabeth Saenz has told us that the district and C.C.P.D have copies of the text messages that a female student says she received from Williams.

6 News has learned that Williams was arrested before. In 2005, he was arrested here in Corpus Christi for a warrant out of Travis County.

Court documents say that Williams was charged with harrassment for making inappropriate phone calls to a woman he went to school with at the University of Texas in Austin.

According to the documents, the woman claimed she received calls from an unknown number for several months, and stated the the calls "were sexual with moans and groans".

She goes on to say that "she received calls of a sexual nature referring to (expletive) and saying 'it's me baby'".

The documents say that after Austin police traced the number back to Williams, he "admitted, on tape, that he made the calls".

Williams pled guilty to a lesser charge and received two years deferred prosecution on the case.

6 News attempted to contact Williams at his father's house, but his father told us the last time he saw his son was at church.

We tried calling the only number we have for Williams, but no one answered.

CORPUS CHRISTI - We continuing following the story of a male teacher with West Oso ISD suspended after sending text messages to a female student.

As we've reported, the school district and the Corpus Christi Police Department are investigating whether those text messages were inappropriate.

The teacher that's been suspended is 29-year-old Christopher Q. Williams. He's a business teacher at West Oso High School and the son of long time West Oso coach Roy Williams.

As we found out Christopher Williams has been arrested before. In 2005, Williams was arrested here in Corpus Christi for a warrant out of Travis County.

Court documents say that Williams was charged with harassment for making inappropriate phone calls to a woman that were sexual in nature. The documents also say that Williams admitted to making the calls.

Police say Williams pled to a lesser charge and received two years deferred prosecution in the case.

As for their current investigation, West Oso ISD says the issue will be brought up for discussion at their board meeting next Monday.

We tried to contact Williams at his father's house today, but his father told us the last time he saw his son was at church. We also tried calling the only number we have for Williams, but no one answered.

CORPUS CHRISTI - We have new information on a West Oso I.S.D investigation into one of its teachers. The district is trying to determine if a male teacher at West Oso High School sent inappropriate text messages to a female student.

We've learned that the Corpus Christi Police Department is now involved in the investigation.

As we've reported, the district has a copy of the text messages that a female student says she received from one of her male teachers.

Now, Superintendent Elizabeth Saenz says that information is being turned over to C.C.P.D.

The teacher remains on administrative leave while the investigation continues.

Saenz says the issue is set to be brought up for discussion at the next school board meeting on February 4th.

CORPUS CHRISTI - We have more details on an investigation out of West Oso I.S.D. District officials there are trying to figure out if a male teacher at West Oso High School sent inappropriate text messages to a female student.

6 News has learned that teacher has previously worked at schools in Corpus Christi and Aransas Pass.

And in September of 2005, he was arrested for harrassment in Travis County. That charge was later dismissed.

The female student has given a copy of the text messages to district officials for their investigation.

The teacher has been placed on administrative leave while the district investigates.

CORPUS CHRISTI - West Oso I.S.D. is investigating possible inappropriate text messages between a teacher and a student.

The district says a female student at West Oso High School told teachers that she received inappropriate text messages from a male teacher.

That male teacher has been placed on administrative leave while the district investigates.

Superintendent Elizabeth Saenz says the female student has provided a copy of the text messages to the district for their investigation.

She says no law enforcement agencies are involved at this point.

She says the district will thoroughly check those text messages and gather information from students and staff.

"We're also looking at historical, any patterns, anything else that we might be able to find out from the time that he was hired in this district," Saenz says.

She added that she's surprised to see an allegation against this particular teacher.

"He's a very popular teacher, and he's very, you know, motivational. I've seen him in action," she says.

The district says they hope to have the investigation wrapped up by early next week.