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Letter to the Editor: Privacy and the Rye City School District

To the Editor:

After more than one (1) year, twelve (12) months, fifty two (52) weeks, and three hundred and sixty five (365) days, where discussions pertaining to reassigned teachers were cloaked under the cover of “Executive Sessions,” Board Member and Candidate Karen Belanger PUBLICALLY represents future 3020(a) hearings for Carin Mehler, the individual Plaintiff in 14-cv-3141 Mehler v. Rye City School District, et. al. (S.D.N.Y., filed March 26, 2014), so far outside the norm of New York State and Federal Privacy laws.  A direct quote from Belanger reads ”a great deal of information will be shown to the appropriate parties under the 3020(a) hearing process that Ms. Coppola, presumably, will be shortly going through AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE ABLE TO ORGANIZE THE SAME THING FOR MS. MEHLER.”  The privacy laws of the United States embody several different legal concepts. One is the invasion of privacy, a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his or her private affairs, discloses his or her private information, where money damages may be recovered from the first person by the other.  Comments?

Best regards,

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P. Stephen Lamont

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Committee for Election Equality


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