A former teacher who spent six months in Julia Tutwiler Prison for sexting a junior high student is back behind bars after authorities say she violated Alabama's sex offender laws.

Ashley Hurst Casiday, 33, was taken into custody by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday, according to sheriff's officials and jail records.

Chief Deputy Randy Christian said Casiday, who currently goes by her maiden name Hurst, is charged with failure to register her employment and for working within 2000 feet of a daycare.

Though sheriff's officials didn't identify Casiday's place of employment, AL.com has learned she works at Good Grit magazine as an assistant to publisher Laura Bento and has done so since last year. Those offices, located in The Phoenix Building at 1710 Second Avenue North, are within 2,000 feet of a daycare.

Casiday, then a 31-year-old eighth grade teacher, resigned from Leeds Middle School in February 2014 amid allegations that she had inappropriate contact with a 14-year-old student. She was arrested in March and charge with one count of transmitting obscene material to a child. She was jailed, and then released on $100,000 bond.

A St. Clair County grand jury later indicted her on five charges: the one count of transmitting obscene material to a child and four counts of possession of obscene matter. In October 2014, Casiday pleaded guilty to the charge of transmitting obscene material to a child. In exchange for her guilty plea, the other four charges were dismissed.

Casiday, court records show, was sentenced to five years in prison, with six months to serve. She began that sentence in January 2015, and was released in July 2015. Following her dismissal from prison, she was to serve three years on supervised probation and have no contact with the victim.

Because she pleaded guilty to a Class B felony, Casiday must abide by Alabama's Community Notification Sex Offender Law. Under those requirements, she can't live within 2,000 feet of a school or daycare, and she must register her current name, address and employment with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.

Christian said the sheriff's office Sex Offender Unit received information about her new employment and obtained warrants on Tuesday. She had listed an address in Pelham has her place of employment.

Casiday was arrested on Wednesday, with bond set at $20,000. She was released Thursday afternoon.

"The State Sex Offender Law is crafted to protect children specifically and is crystal clear,'' Christian said. "To avoid being in violation a convicted sex offender must be in compliance 100 percent. That didn't happen here.

Authorities said they also investigated claims that Casiday, as part of her job at the magazine, attended charity events for children, but no charges came from those allegations. Bento released this statement this afternoon:

"Ashley Hurst Casiday started working for me as my personal assistant in September of 2015. She has a degree in English which made her an incredible asset to me as a publisher. Ashley, however, is not an employee of Good Grit. She is an independent contractor and works from home.

I lead Good Grit under 5 governing core values. One of my very favorites is 'Own It, Fix It, Move On.' At Good Grit we are so thankful that our value is not measured by the sum of the mistakes we've made, seen or unseen. So when I do business with people, I do business based on their Grit. Ashley has certainly shown me she has owned the mistakes of her yesterday and is relentlessly trying to move on from them.

I guess you could say we love people scandalously at Good Grit Magazine. And I'm okay with that."