Parents say pornography from a nearby motel's television signal can be picked up on handheld TVs at their children's school.
Parents using handheld televisions while waiting to pick up their children from St. Phillip's School in south Dallas said a pornographic signal was bleeding across public airwaves and onto their devices.
"You just think that when you send your children somewhere, you expect it to be a safe haven," parent Mary Boyce said. "The last thing you expect is something like that to be happening."
The school said the signal was finally turned off on Thursday.
Administrators said it is the latest in a string of problems with the crime-ridden Colonial House Motel near Interstate 45 and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Headmaster Terry Flowers said prostitution and gunfire have been problems at the motel.
"There have been drug sales and various challenges that saturate the entire area," he said.
Dallas police have made 60 prostitution arrests and dozens of drug arrests within three years.
Boyce said the activity often takes place in the open, prompting tough questions from her children.
"It just makes them sad, and it causes us to have conversations that we probably wouldn't be having with them until a little later in life," she said.
The school has been fighting for more than 20 years to shut down the motel and may get its wish after New Year's Day. The city of Dallas is revoking the Colonial Motel's certificate of occupancy on Jan. 5.
