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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

By Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
This article was published July 10, 2015

A former Mount St. Mary Academy athletic director who was convicted of not immediately reporting a sexual relationship between a teacher and a student had her teaching license suspended for a year Thursday.

Kathy Griffin, 58, will have her teaching license suspended from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016, according to an agreement that her attorney, Clayton Blackstock, made with the state Department of Education. She could receive her license at the end of that period.

The Arkansas Board of Education unanimously agreed to accept the agreement Thursday.

Griffin would have faced a revocation of her teaching license, but Blackstock said he had looked back at similar cases to see what type of punishment was imposed. She had voluntarily surrendered her license after her misdemeanor conviction and hasn’t been teaching for three years, he…