A former Bayshore Elementary School teacher is under criminal investigation for allegedly drinking while at work.
The State Attorney’s Office is investigating Brandi Lee Snyder for child neglect without great bodily harm after she was discovered “with drugs and alcohol in her bag” while at school on Dec. 18, 2023, according to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report obtained by the Bradenton Herald.
The sheriff’s office said that Snyder appeared to be under the influence of either drugs or alcohol, blowing a .095 in the breathalyzer. After blowing over the legal limit of .08 while at work, Snyder was fired from her job, according to the sheriff’s office report.
Snyder, 32, has not been arrested as part of the investigation, and the State Attorney’s Office has not decided whether to press charges for child neglect.
Reached for comment Tuesday afternoon, Assistant State Attorney Christina Walsh, who is overseeing the case, said she could not comment on any open or pending cases.
But a mother of one of the students in Snyder’s third-grade class said that despite being told that the teacher was fired in December, school officials never gave a reason.