Posted by Guest, naspam@spamfree.com, on 3/27/03

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The family was searching for a childcare facility and
called this school. An appointment was set to tour the
school. The couple is bi-racial. The school gave them a
tour. The school made the couple fill out an application
with confidential information concerning the child. The
couple decided not to send the child to this daycare.

The staff seemed to have a sour attitude about the
family being of a mixed race. They also seemed to be really
secretive about who owned and operated this school. The
couple wanted to be sure who they were doing business with
and to verify they did not have a history of any problems in
the area of employee criminal background checks,
certifications, accreditations, licenses, previous
complaint, offenses, and compliance history according to the
federal and state law prior to enrolling the child. The
security of the school was lacking.

The school invited the couple to the school for a tour
and when they determined that they did not meet their racial
requirements and that were asking too many questions they
threatened to sue couple. The threat of legal action came
after the couple requested that the school return
confidential information about the child and they failed to
comply. The couple filed a complaint and that's when they
retaliated against the family in several ways. This day care
wanted to shut the family up so to speak. They (day care)
threatened legal action

The threatened legal action accuses of several things
that are baseless. Their attorney has threatened to make
public information about the child that is private and
should not be disclosed. Another claim is they (the family)
owned a web site that is a free speech website that says the
day care sucks. This is false. They did not own this
website. They have threatened to sue anyway to shut the
couple up and to stop them from filing complaints against
this corporation.

Their attorneys are engaging in SLAPP (Strategic
Lawsuits Against Public Participation) -- Strategic Lawsuits
Against Public Participation are civil complaints or
counterclaims (against either an individual or an
organization) in which the alleged injury was the result of
petitioning or free speech activities protected by the First
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. SLAPPs are often brought
by corporations, real estate developers, or government
officials and entities against individuals who oppose them
on public issues. Typically, SLAPPs are based on ordinary
civil tort claims such as defamation, conspiracy, and
interference with prospective economic advantage.

The school is trying to turn the family into the ones
that are the bad people by making false accusations and
painting a picture that makes it look like criminal behavior
on the part of the parents when their has been none.
Obviously they intend to manipulate the truth and to harm
the character of this family in retaliation for the
complaints that have been filed against this day care They
are trying to stop the right to engage in free speech. This
school has serious issues and possibly criminal actions that
should be investigated.

It appears that this company has broken the laws, which
protects citizens against racial discrimination and the
right to free speech. We believe they are trying to make the
family look like the bad people by attacking them and
threatening them with legal action. This big corporation has
more resources than an individual family does and is going
out of their way to intimidate them so that they will shut
up. In fact they are the ones that have brought about these
issues by their actions and bad decisions.

What would you do?

Child Care and threat to sue, 3/27/03, by Guest.

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