TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jun 4, 2024

Two Williamson County families have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Bill Lee and the Williamson County School System. The Tennessee Lookout reports that a 13-year-old Fairview Middle School student and a 14-year-old Page High School student were arrested at school and expelled in separate and unrelated incidents after school officials misinterpreted conversations between peers as “threats of mass violence.” The suit claims the teens were strip-searched, put in solitary confinement, sent to alternative school and then subjected to months of home visits by social workers and probation officers. Larry Crain, an attorney representing the families, said in a statement last week, “This was an overreach and misapplication of the law, which resulted in a denial of their constitutional rights.”