(Kenosha County Sheriff)
Kenosha, Wis. — A Kenosha Unified School District (KUSD) employee assigned to the special education department has been disciplined for using her district-issued computer to post political content on social media during work hours. The employee, 51-year-old Teresa Smith, formerly known as Teresa Sarazin, currently works as an administrative support specialist.
KCE received a tip about Smith’s conduct and confirmed the allegations through records obtained under Wisconsin’s public records law. According to a disciplinary letter dated February 26, 2025, Smith accessed Facebook and a local news site from her work computer while on the clock.
KUSD’s investigation revealed that Smith used her district-issued device during work hours to troll people on Facebook and other social media platforms, posting condemnations of Kyle Rittenhouse and others associated with him. These actions were in violation of the district’s policies on appropriate technology use and employee conduct.
During an interview with KUSD Human Resources, Smith initially denied using her work computer for social media but later admitted it was “possible” when confronted with usage logs. Officials determined she violated the district’s Staff Technology Acceptable Use Policy and rules requiring honesty during investigations.
As a result, Smith was issued a one-day unpaid suspension, which she served on March 5, 2025. She returned to work the following day. The letter also warned that further violations could result in additional discipline, up to and including termination.
While the district acknowledged Smith’s First Amendment rights, it emphasized that using taxpayer-funded equipment for personal or political activity during paid work time is prohibited.
Smith’s personnel file also includes a disclosure of prior criminal convictions. On her job application, she wrote: “2 Misdemeanor charges Battery & Disorderly conduct, 18 month probation, Kenosha County. Nothing since then and willing to discuss further at time of interview.”
However, a review of court records and the original criminal complaint shows that Smith was initially charged in 1999 with four offenses: second-degree recklessly endangering safety while armed, false imprisonment, substantial battery, and disorderly conduct while armed. The charges stemmed from a domestic incident in which she allegedly struck her then-husband, burned him with a cigarette, brandished a butcher knife, and physically blocked him from leaving their apartment.
According to the complaint, she allegedly told him, “I’m going to kill you,” while holding the knife in a threatening manner. Prosecutors ultimately dismissed the felony counts in a plea agreement. Smith was convicted of two misdemeanors and sentenced to probation.
KUSD has not commented on whether it was aware of the original felony charges at the time of her hiring or whether her recent conduct may impact her continued employment. Smith remains in her current role with the district.
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WHY IS SHE BEING LEFT ALONE OR WORKING WITH KIDS????
She’s an asshole not a pedo
Anyone with a criminal background should never be considered for a school job.
I love that some KUSD teachers are downvoting this…groomers.
Agreed.
Is she going to brandish a knife when she gets mad at a kid ???
She is a hottie
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No one ever used there computer for non work shit ever
She works with “special needs” children and she’s violent… great
Way to go, KUSD. That’s why they don’t want federal authorities in their facilities. It’s not about protecting undocumented immigrants; it’s about protecting staff members from being caught. Dear KUSD HR, don’t you think it’s time to replace your recruiter and hire someone else?
It’s fucking obvious that KUSD is not really running background checks on most of these people. Whether it’s a money thing or oversight, they just legit haven’t run them on certain people.
I’ve never seen any HR department within the state of Wisconsin do legitimate work. They are terrible and lazy and slackers but walk around with their noses in the air. Its sickening because they make great money. I have worked for the state for years and they are terrible.
It does seem that there’s always the attitude that since they don’t have to make a real product that can be examined and evaluated in a lab or Road test, that, “who cares what quality or lack of quality gets hired?”. Maybe they figure that teaching isn’t going to go on anyway, so just get the seats filled?
I guarantee she would have terminated had she been posting Conservative viewpoints.
I wonder why we only see 1% of all of these outrageous events showing up in the Kenosha News. I bet the majority of Kenoshans have no clue what is going on right in Jeffrey Weiss’s face .
She Feisty…..how’s her books looking? Commissary is coming up,just saying
I agree, HR is useless!
How on earth did she get hired? That’s a bigger story. What convictions prevent you from working in education. She wouldn’t get hired in healthcare with those convictions on her record.
Heck, she might not even get hired at Parkside. They probably wouldn’t even create a new job title for her at Carthage.🤣
She looks like Napoleon Dynamite if he were female…
KUSD is a freaking joke
Does KUSD hire anyone???? This is ridiculous.
I personally know a guy that was caught watching
adult porn on his work computer there in maintenance.
He was reprimanded against doing it again.
He did it again and was fired.
This was well over 20 years ago.
This is more than enough KUSD you are just allowing anyone in the offices and into the schools psychos and predators working with our children. You guys need proper screening method , the one in place now is not working very well obviously.
Her background is absolutely reprehensible then to get hired by a school to work with special needs children?!?!? YGTBFKM This is insane. Well done, Kevin. Thanks for digging in–this part of the story needs to go viral!
She gets fired for using her work computer. But the staff that was abusing my daughter and others still have a job. Real nice KUSD. At least you have your priorities straight.
If any parent wants to volunteer at the school they have to fill out a background check form…every year! Why aren’t teachers held to the same standard? They should be required to have a new one every year, too! Of course, this woman’s priors were before her KUSD career began, so why were they ignored during the hiring process?
How do we know that they were ignored? If you look at the data given this happened over 25 years ago. Would like to see who she was trolling on the internet?