Joshua Goen, the suspended superintendent of Seagraves ISD, was arrested this week on suspicion of planting a recording device in a locker room to spy on a girls’ basketball team, according to multiple local reports.
The recording device was discovered last month and Goen was taken into custody on Monday and charged with “invasive visual recording,” a felony. A day later, his home was raided by the FBI and several local police agencies, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported.
Goen had been placed on leave in late November when the district learned he was under investigation. The principal of Seagraves ISD’s high school has been serving as interim superintendent.
Security camera footage from November shows a man identified as Goen entering the visiting girls’ locker room shortly before a basketball team from Hale Center ISD, a nearby district, arrived. Authorities found three videos from the day: one shows an empty locker room, the second shows the visiting players entering the room and a final clip cuts out when the device was likely unplugged, according to the Avalanche-Journal.
Investigators say the visiting team put a speaker in front of the recording device, which they thought was a phone charger. That blocked any potential recording of the girls getting dressed. One of the Hale Center players took the device because she thought it was a phone charger left behind by one of her teammates, according to NewsChannel10.com.
Another student, an eighth-grader, later recognized it as a recording device and gave it to a Hale Center administrator, NewsChannel 10 reported.
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