If agirl in my school is harassing me what canI legally do?
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If agirl in my school is harassing me what canI legally do?
This girl is harassing me through her facebook wall and has sent messages to my boyfriend and has told her friends who have told me she is trying to put pictures that will offend me in our yearbook. I have looked at the pictures for our lay out and in fact they are in there. I don’t know what to do. I am going to the yearbook teacher and the princable but I want to know if there is anything I can do legally at this point. She is over 18.
Asked on December 2, 2011 under Personal Injury, New York
Answers:
MD, Member, California Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
You need to capture these facebook postings and print them. Further, contact the authorities (police) immediately and contact Facebook to have her site shutdown. The school board will need to be informed, in addition to the principal. More and more states have anti-bullying statutes and she will be tried accordingly. Talk to your parents, hire a lawyer and sue her and sue her quickly. Harassment and such items are usually under the zero tolerance laws statewide and by school policy. Do not sit on this. Contact the proper authorities quickly. Show the items and make sure she is quickly shut down. Get your boyfriend and others to put down what they witnessed in writing and email it to you.
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