I wouldn't want to stake my freedom on that. When I paid my tax bill to the Grapevine/Colleyville ISD in January, the building I paid at is located a full block, block and a half away from any of the Grapevine High School classroom buildings, on the other side of a major thoroughfare, fenced off from and behind the parking lot for the school's football stadium. It shares a tiny parking lot with some smaller municipal agency.n5wd wrote:Not a legal opinion, of course, but I do not think that school district administration buildings count as "schools" with regards to CHL laws, as there is no instruction activity, and usually no school kids taking classes in the building. That's with regards to larger ISD's like Frisco, Fort Worth, Northwest, etc. For a very small district that might house their admin folks inside a school building, that'd be different. But, not under the circumstances that you're describing.
But, that said, you'd still be prevented from carrying since the ISD is most certainly a governmental agency, if you were there at the school board meeting, that would qualify as a governmental meeting.
At other times, I'd say that it couldn't be posted with 30.06 (well, it COULD, but it wouldn't mean anything) since it's a property owned by a governmental agency.
When I went in there to pay, I left my gun in the car, and while inside, I made it a point of asking both the woman who took my payment and her supervisor if, for purposes of CHL, this building was considered a school building, or is considered a tax office? Apparently, I'm far from the first person to ask. They both told me that for CHL purposes, that building was part of the Grapevine High School campus, and CHL is not allowed inside. And by the way, neither of these two ladies appeared in the least worried or negative about CHL. They were just answering the question at face value.
In my experience, both here and in California, ISD administrative buildings are typically located on part of some school's campus, so even if there are no classes being taught in that building, it is still technically part of the school. At the high school from which I graduated, the principal's, vice-principal's, and other administrative offices were in a free-standing building in which there were zero classrooms. Still part of the school campus. I realize that's commiefornia, but even here in Texas, my guess is that if a district admin building is located on a campus, then for purposes of CHL it is off limits — probably on the grounds that student groups might have some officially sanctioned reason to visit the building in groups for one reason or another.