Anita Connally v. Dallas Independent School District

OPINION

STEVEN L. HUGHES, Justice

Anita Connally sued the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) for wrongful termination in violation of the Texas Whis-tleblower Act. The trial court granted DISD’s plea to the jurisdiction and dismissed Connally’s entire lawsuit based on governmental immunity. We conclude Con-nally’s report to the manager of DISD’s Professional Standards Office was not to an appropriate law enforcement authority as required by the Act, even though the manager was a commissioned police officer and a former member of the DISD police department. We conclude, however, that…