LION (Local Integrity Oversight Network) is opening an oversight engagement with Pottsboro Independent School District. Pottsboro ISD is a Grayson County district with administration at 1401 Katy Lane, Pottsboro, Texas.
As the documentary base develops — Public Information Act requests, district responses, board minutes, and other primary records — the Updates feed below will reflect each event dated to when it happened. Each update is anchored to the primary source document it describes.
Updates
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LION asks Pottsboro ISD to re-export library catalogs as spreadsheets after PDFs returned hard-to-read columns
On the afternoon of June 4, 2026, LION replied to Pottsboro Independent School District after reviewing the morning’s production of nine PDFs responsive to POTTSBOROISD-PIA-001, asking whether the district could re-run the three campus library catalog files as Excel (.xlsx) or comma-separated values (CSV) instead of PDF.
The reason: when the catalogs were exported to PDF, the text emerged squeezed into a narrow strip along the left edge of each page in a very small font, making title and author columns hard to read even when zoomed in. The pattern is a common print-style report-export quirk — most library management systems (Follett Destiny, Alexandria, Mackin VIA, and similar platforms) include a “Title List” or equivalent native report that produces a clean spreadsheet directly from the existing reporting menu, with no reformatting needed on the district’s end.
The Texas Public Information Act, codified at Government Code Chapter 552, requires a public body to produce responsive records but does not strictly bind the district to a requester’s preferred format. LION’s original May 29 request had identified Excel, CSV, or native export as the preferred delivery formats for exactly this reason — those formats are generally available from existing library-system reporting functions without additional staff time.
Source: LION reply to Pottsboro ISD, June 4, 2026.
Errors or corrections: corrections@lionwatchtx.org
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Pottsboro ISD produces library catalog and book acquisition records four business days after LION request
On the morning of June 4, 2026, four business days after LION filed POTTSBOROISD-PIA-001, Pottsboro Independent School District produced records responsive to the request. The district’s cover email attached nine PDFs — three campus library catalogs (Pottsboro Elementary, Pottsboro Middle School, and Pottsboro High School) and six 2025–26 book acquisition lists (two per campus) —…
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LION files first Pottsboro ISD Public Information Act request on campus library catalogs and approved reading lists
On May 29, 2026, LION — Local Integrity Oversight Network — filed its first Texas Public Information Act request with Pottsboro Independent School District, seeking native library catalog exports for every campus and any approved reading lists used in district English / Language Arts classes during the 2025–26 school year. The Texas Public Information Act,…
District Profile
Board of Trustees
Seven-member elected Board of Trustees.
- Scott Galyon — Board President.
- Biff Thornton — Vice President.
- Jeremy Lewis — Secretary.
- Lauren Dill — Member.
- Audree Perdue — Member.
- Doyle Roy, Jr. — Member.
- Erica Sweetin — Member.
Place numbers and term expirations to be added once published district records confirm them.
Administration
Superintendent — Dr. Kevin Matthews.
District main — (903) 771-0083.
Board meeting schedule
Cadence: To be confirmed from district records.
Location: Pottsboro ISD Service Center, 1401 Katy Lane, Pottsboro, TX 75076. Agendas and minutes published at meetings.boardbook.org.
Public Information Act / Open Records contact
The district has not published a dedicated open-records contact. Public Information Act requests are routed through the district administration office.
District administration — 1401 Katy Lane, Pottsboro, TX 75076.
Phone — (903) 771-0083.
Documents
Primary-source documents cited from the updates above — LION’s Public Information Act filings, district productions in response, and the documented correspondence with the district — will be available in this folder as the engagement develops.
