Round Rock Teacher Arrested For Improperly Recording School Staffers Using Bathroom

ROUND ROCK, TX -- A Fern Bluff Elementary School teacher was arrested on a charge of invasive visual recording on Thursday after being accused of hiding a camera in a staff restroom, officials confirmed.

Robert Lance Bradley, 36, was arrested after the video recording device was discovered, hidden in a Styrofoam cup aimed at the stall. The sheriff's office said the footage shows Bradley setting up the camera before leaving the bathroom. A adult female is the next person to enter, use the bathroom and then leave, with the next bit of footage showing Bradley retrieving the camera.

Bradley has been with the school district since 2007.

Round Rock ISD officials released a statement confirming the incident.

Williamson County Sheriff's Department arrested a member of our staff, Robert Lance Bradley, late in the afternoon on Thursday," the statement read, "for allegedly recording staff members using staff restroom facilities at Fern Bluff.

School officials said they were first notified of the inappropriate conduct on Tuesday.

"We immediately removed him from campus, a report was made to law enforcement and the entire campus was thoroughly searched for any additional recording devices."

District officials said there were no children among the victims: "Investigators did not find any student victims or additional recording devices on campus," the statement reads.

Officials said Bradley was first hired at Fern Bluff Elementary in 2007. and was a third-grade teacher. He was hired after passing a Texas Department of Public Safety background check.

Bradley was booked into jail with a bond of $11,000. The charge of invasive visual recording is a state felony punishable by up to two years.

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