After Jacob Fleener, on his own time and on his own computer, logged onto a Facebook page with a parody of his principal, he was taken out of his high school English class to be interrogated by two district police services officers. The school officials recommended transferring him to an alternative school and gave a letter to his father accusing his son of identity theft.
The school officials later relented and agreed to rescind the transfer allowing him to make up the work lost during a five day suspension and expunge records of his arrest, but in bringing the lawsuit the family said that teachers had been reluctant to provide makeup work and school officials continued to state that Fleener had committed various crimes, including identity theft and cyber-bullying. The family also found out through a pubic records request that the defendants had failed to fully expunge the arrest record. -db
From Courthouse News Service, May 10, 2011, by Iulia Filip.