The district investigated the incident and found some of the allegations against Lauritzen to be true, but did not agree that she was intentionally targeting Alec, according to the complaint.
“Furthermore, any reasonable school official would have known that the act of punishing or preventing a student for wholly nonstudent and off-campus speech that does not involve or threaten any school function or school personnel is not permissible or lawful.” “Any reasonable vice principal, coach or any other school official would have known that the act of enlisting students (minors) to target another student in an effort to gather private information is improper,” the suit states. Lauritzen did not return requests for comment. The complaint alleges that Lauritzen did not want Alec to return to the team, so she asked another student to help her access Alec’s private accounts “with the intent of invading her privacy to humiliate, embarrass, harass and ridicule” her.Ī parent of a student on the team verified that claim and said Lauritzen had asked her daughter to show her Alec’s information using her own social media accounts.Ī previous complaint had been filed against Lauritzen for “intimidating and harassing behaviors” against another student athlete in 2009, according to the lawsuit. The complaint, filed last month, also targets former basketball coach Cathy Lauritzen, who currently serves as assistant principal at Sierra High, a school located in the mountain community of Tollhouse.Īlec, 18, who had served as captain of the basketball team, was suspended in 2016 for getting in a fight with another student but was to be allowed to return to the team after summer if she kept a clean discipline record.
In fact, the speech being punished here was merely a passive clicking/liking of an image posted of a celebrity artist,” Fresno attorney Pahoua Lor wrote in the complaint.
“The speech (Alec) was punished for was not ‘student speech’ at all and cannot be regulated or controlled by defendants.
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