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The unlawful use of a two-way communications device sits at the base of Florida's digital-conduct statutes as a third-degree felony.
The charge captures the electronic channel itself as the instrument of harm, before prosecutors address what traveled through it.
That statutory floor is where the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office built its three-count case against Christian Schneider, 31, a teacher at Memorial Middle School, after detectives say he acknowledged communicating inappropriately with a former teenage student at Franklin Middle School since 2023.
Booking records from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office list two counts of solicitation or possession of child sexual abuse material, both classified as second-degree felonies, alongside the third-degree felony communications count.
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