A law firm in Houston today announced that the Blinn College District is being sued by a whistleblower who claims their dismissal from the college was retaliation.
Former Houston District Attorney Kim Ogg now practices law with the firm, Gregor Wynne Arney, PLLC.
According to a statement from Ogg, the whistleblower is suing the Blinn Junior College District, the Blinn College Police Department, Police Chief John Chancellor, and District Chancellor Mary Hensley after allegations about a civilian employee’s role in a student arrest and destroyed body-camera evidence. The claimant alleges retaliation and destruction of police evidence.
Here is the media release:
TEXAS — A whistleblower has filed a lawsuit against the Blinn Junior College District, the Blinn College Police Department, Police Chief John Chancellor, and District Chancellor Mary Hensley, alleging that the defendants retaliated against her after she reported to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) that a civilian district employee had impersonated a police officer during the arrest of a student in August 2023.
TCOLE is the state agency responsible for regulating the licensing and certification of peace officers in Texas. The complaint alleges that the Blinn College District employee who posed as a police officer surrendered his peace officer license to TCOLE in 2018 as part of a plea agreement with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office in a domestic violence case. Nevertheless, he is the district’s safety and risk manager, a civilian, non-law enforcement position.
The complaint further alleges that during TCOLE’s investigation, they discovered that years of Blinn College Police Department body-camera evidence, including footage from the August 2023 student arrest, had been destroyed by an unknown person. The mishandled evidence could affect individuals arrested by Blinn College Police since 2019 because Texas law requires notice to everyone whose criminal cases could be impacted, regardless of whether their cases have been resolved or closed. To date, according to the lawsuit, neither the Blinn College District nor their Police Department has provided such notice to anyone, a violation of Texas law.
The lawsuit follows a Title IX Complaint filed with the District by the Whistleblower and investigated and dismissed by then Blinn College District Human Resources Director Marie Kirby. In late 2025, Kirby was the subject of a media investigation into Kirby’s criminal background and inquiry into whether or not Blinn leadership hired Kirby knowing of her prior arrest and criminal prosecution for a sex crime with a minor and subsequent revocation of her teaching license in 1998.