Overview
- Amanda Katz, 55, was arrested on Tuesday, June 2, and charged with improper sexual contact by an employee or agent with bond set at $25,000 and electronic monitoring imposed.
- Police say the alleged relationship developed between late December 2025 and mid-February 2026 and came to light when the student’s mother found explicit communications during a Valentine’s Day weekend trip.
- Investigators cite about 19,585 text messages and 591 phone calls plus a forensic interview and witness statements as core evidence used to obtain arrest warrants.
- The warrant alleges grooming behaviors that included tutoring the victim’s sibling, buying gifts, renting a family cabin, repeated off-campus sexual encounters and discussions about the student graduating early and running away to Mexico.
- Katz was placed on administrative leave, resigned on April 30, and the DFCS referral triggered a continuing criminal probe that could lead to prosecution under Georgia law that bars sexual contact between school employees and students.