Former Salina South Middle School Teacher Amanda Freeman Sentenced to Probation
Former Salina South Middle School teacher Amanda Freeman was sentenced Wednesday in Saline County District Court to 12 months of probation for felony possession of drug paraphernalia and furnishing alcoholic beverages to underage students.
Freeman, 47, pleaded no contest in August to possession of drug paraphernalia, a severity level 5 drug felony, and furnishing alcoholic beverages to underage students, a class B misdemeanor, according to court records.
District Judge Amy Norton sentenced Freeman to 11 months in prison on the felony count, followed by 12 months of post-release supervision, and six months in the county jail on the misdemeanor count, to be served after the prison term. Norton then suspended both terms, which means Freeman will not serve that time as long as she follows the conditions of her probation. Instead, she will be on probation for 12 months, supervised by court services. If she violates her probation, the judge could order her to serve the prison and jail time.
Conditions of her probation include the standard terms, along with an alcohol and drug evaluation within 30 days, a mental health intake, no contact with the victim or the victim’s family, and providing a DNA sample.
Freeman was also ordered to pay $193 in court costs, a $200 DNA database fee, a $120 correctional supervision fee, a $60 urinalysis fee, a $400 Children’s Advocacy Center assessment fee and a $200 fine on the alcohol count, for a total of $1,173.
A presentence report filed in the case listed no prior convictions for Freeman, placing her in the lowest criminal-history category under Kansas sentencing guidelines. At that level, probation is the presumed sentence for the felony count, with a guideline range of 10 to 12 months.
Prosecutors filed the case Sept. 10, 2025, following an investigation by the Salina Police Department. On July 31, 2026, prosecutors filed an amended complaint reducing the case to two counts. The charges dropped included distribution of cannabinoids, aggravated child endangerment, contributing to a child’s misconduct and unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcohol. District Judge Amy Norton accepted Freeman’s no-contest pleas in early August and ordered a presentence investigation.
The amended complaint alleged that between Jan. 1, 2023, and Sept. 9, 2025, Freeman possessed drug paraphernalia, including vape pens, vaporizers and baggies, and recklessly furnished alcohol or cereal malt beverage to a person under 21.
Under the written plea agreement described in court records in August, prosecutors agreed not to request jail time and not to oppose probation, and the parties planned to recommend concurrent sentences. Those recommendations were not binding on the court. The court ordered the misdemeanor term to run consecutive to the felony sentence.
