(UPDATED, 2:30 p.m., with statement from Boise School District.)

The Boise School District has received another sexual abuse tort claim involving former special education assistant Gavin Snow.

The $50 million claim, filed Feb. 27, would fall outside a $7 million settlement designed to close several similar cases against the district. A tort claim is not a civil lawsuit, but is a precursor to a possible suit.

The latest tort claim follows what is, by now, a familiar pattern.

The claimants, two Valley View Elementary School parents, say district officials contacted them after Snow died by suicide on Jan. 10, 2025, taking his life as Boise police attempted to arrest him on child sexual abuse charges.

The parents say they were told “that pictures of (their child) were found on Mr. Snow’s school-issued device, and … further learned that pictures of (their child) may have been found in Mr. Snow’s personal device.”

The tort claim also accuses district officials — including outgoing Superintendent Lisa Roberts — of treating parents’ claims with “deliberate indifference.”

This allegation appears tied to comments made by Boise administrators in November, a statement released after the district announced the $7 million settlements. At that time, Roberts and school board Chairman Dave Wagers said many of the tort claims “appear to stem from coordinated efforts” targeting the district.

“When a school district’s chief policymaker admits that numerous tort claims have been filed alleging similar misconduct and responds not with reform, but with public dismissal and attribution of those complaints to a supposed coordinated effort, that response is not neutrality — it is deliberate indifference,” the tort claim reads. “It also appears intended to shame victims and to place victims and their families in a bad light for coming forward or filing claims.”

On Monday, the Boise district denied the parents’ claims.

“The district is not in possession of, and is not otherwise aware of, any information or documentation that would support the factual or legal claims asserted in the notice,” the district said in a statement Monday afternoon. “The district intends to vigorously defend itself and its employees against these claims.”

The names of the parents and the child — and even the names of Roberts and other district and Valley View employees — were redacted from a copy of the tort claim, released by the district Monday, in response to an Idaho EdNews records request.

With the latest tort claim, the Boise district has received at least nine claims involving Snow, who worked at Cynthia Mann and Valley elementary schools.

That total includes the seven claims settled in November and an eighth claim filed by Marianne Baker, a former Valley View teacher. Baker has said she was placed on administrative leave and forced to resign after she filed a report against Snow to school and district officials. An Ada County judge in January dismissed related misdemeanor charges against Baker.

The Legislature is considering a bill drafted in response to the Boise tort claims — requiring schools to report possible abuse to law enforcement, as opposed to conducting an internal investigation, and adding whistleblower protections. The bill is awaiting a Senate vote.

More coverage: CBS2 News first reported last week on the latest tort claim.