Did you see the recent Lake Travis View article regarding the LTISD and their lawsuits against me and my family?

The August 2, 2007 edition of the Lake Travis View has an excellent article written by Charles McClure regarding the LTISD and their wasteful use of tax dollars to persecute my family. The article “LTISD appealing Lovelace ruling in federal court” can be found on the front page. Unfortunately, the LT View does not have a web site so that I can link to the article, but I will quote some relevant points out to you:

I like Susan Bohn’s statement regarding why the LTISD sought a release so that they could make comments about me:

“First, [we are limited in what we can say because] litigation is pending and the trial is imminent,” LTISD General Counsel Susan Bohn told the Lake Travis View. ‘Also, there is the nature of this case. Even things that are not specific to the case are confidential unless we have consent from the parents. Anytime the district does something that the Lovelaces’ perceive violates their rights, they file usually a series of complaints and grievances within the district, outside of the district, with federal and state agencies, against individual educators with the state board of educators certification. So we are always very cautious and quite certain that if we provided any information to you [the newspaper] related to the case, because of the nature of the case, we would be having to defend ourselves and spending a lot of time and resources on defending ourselves in other legal proceedings they file against us.”*

• I am not sure if you can characterize her statement as being true: “…we would be having to defend ourselves and spending a lot of time and resources on defending ourselves in other legal proceedings they file against us.”

  They have yet to be involved in a legal proceeding regarding their written misrepresentations.

• Susan, I should not have to remind you, but the LTISD has an extensive history of violating the privacy of their students, Board members calling tax payers “liars”, and taking out full page advertisements in the local paper which contain outrageous if not libelous statements.
• Oh, by the way, Susan, was it you that Dr. Kirk refers to as having dispensed “legal counsel” to Susan Tolles before she committed the violation of a student’s confidentiality?

“While the Lovelaces and their attorneys declined to sign the waiver, they did provide the Lake Travis View with all the relevant court documents relating to each case. The attorneys maintain the Lovelaces have been misrepresented by LTISD statements in the past, which includes an advertisement the district ran in the Lake Travis View in November of 2006.”*

• The reply from my attorney Bill Aleshire to the LT View regarding the LTISD release request was: “The LTISD officials, accused of lying about our clients, now want to say something else about our clients, but want them to absolve them, in advance, for anything the LTISD officials will say. I don’t think so. They shouldn’t have lied in the first place.”
• Unlike the LTISD, we provided the public documents from both sides related to their pending lawsuits against us. The documents we provided are public documents and do not contain any confidential information. I wonder why they would not be so helpful? Perhaps they are embarrassed by their hollow arguments? Or they don’t want the tax payers to see just how they are wasting tax dollars in a futile attempt to silence their critics?
• You too can go to the Third Court of Appeals web site about this case. I can’t find any web links to the briefs that have been filed with the court, but I am providing a copy of the LTISD brief to the appeals court, our response brief and the LTISD response to our response. These are public documents and I am providing them since I don’t know of a web link so that anyone can easily obtain them.

• Note that in their briefs, the lawyers for the LTISD continue to argue their outrageous allegations.

* Source: “LTISD appealing Lovelace ruling in federal court”, Charles McClure, Lake Travis View, August 2, 2007, Volume 22, Number 31

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