CO School Administrator Found Dead Amid Child Porn Allegations

David Weiss, the fired Colorado school administrator at the center of a criminal investigation kept secret by authorities, was found dead, and the county sheriff’s office finally clarified that he was under investigation for allegedly possessing child pornography materials.

Weiss, the former chief of staff of Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS), was reported dead by the sheriff’s department in Washington County, Maryland, on Jan. 1. An investigation into the circumstances of his death remains underway. The sheriff’s office said he “was found dead around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning” and his death is believed to be a suicide. At the time of his death, Weiss was reportedly away from his Colorado home visiting family in Maryland.

Weiss was fired last month under unknown circumstances, and parents in the county sought clarification from the school district about why he had suddenly been fired and a criminal investigation opened. The school district refused to answer their questions, with multiple parents telling CBS News that the district terminated Weiss abruptly and without explanation, leading to a “lack of trust” in the school administrators.

Upon Weiss’s death, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department finally disclosed that the investigation was into possession of child pornography material. According to CBS, the criminal investigation is still ongoing, despite Weiss’s death.

The school district has been rocked by controversy for the past several years. In 2024, multiple members of school staff were arrested for sexual assault on children. One such staff member, a social worker named Chloe Castro, allegedly “groomed her victim,” a 14-year-old boy, according to prosecutor Alexa Visscher.

JCSP is also fully captured by gender theory, and is currently at the center of a federal lawsuit over it forcing an 11-year-old girl to sleep in the same bed with a boy who claimed to identify as a girl at an overnight field trip to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Requests from the girl’s parents, Joe and Serena Wailes, to change the accommodations were repeatedly denied, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the law firm representing two sets of parents in the complaint.

The other parents, Bret and Susanne Roller, had an 11-year-old son attend an overnight field trip in the mountains, where he was supposed to room with numerous other boys in a cabin overseen by a high school counselor. Instead of having a high school male, the Rollers’ son was assigned to a room with an 18-year-old who claimed to be a “non-binary” female. The adult female proceeded to sleep and change her clothes in the cabin, and had direct oversight over the boys’ showers, according to ADF.

JCPS did not respond to a request for comment from The Federalist.