Victoria Triece.Photo:Fox 35 Orlando/YouTube
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A Florida court ruled against a mother who sued her local school district, which she alleged banned her from volunteering at her son’s school after administrators learned she had anOnlyFans account.
In 2023, Victoria Triece sued Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) for $1 million after the district allegedly told her two years prior that she could no longer volunteer at Sand Lake Elementary School in Orlando, where her children, then ages 5 and 10, were students.
As PEOPLE previously reported,the ban came after a parent sent an anonymous email to the principal about Triece’s account on the adult website, along with two NSFW pictures of the mother of two.
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The principal shared the email with her boss, including the images, Triece claimed, arguing that this violated her right to privacy.
She also sued the district for allegedly violating her right to free speech and also alleged “sexual cyber harassment” for sharing pictures from her account with media outlets.
Triece said she felt “humiliated,” adding, “Nobody has the right to judge what other people do for a living,” according toWESH. Her attorney, Mark NeJame, contended at a 2023 press conference that what she does “in our off time, it’s not illegal,” but she had been subjected to “morality police.”
The volunteer program’s policy “does not include any language that confers any right or benefit upon an individual to participate in the program, to remain in the program, or to appeal a removal decision,” the judge wrote in his opinion.
The district did not commit cyberstalking, either, the judge said. He said the district had to send the pictures to media outlets to satisfy public records requests.
One of Triece’s attorneys, Richard W. Smith, a partner at Nejame Law, told PEOPLE the ruling is disheartening.
“We are quite disappointed with the ruling,” he said. “We tried to attack this from a number of different angles and the court didn’t agree with any of them. But Victoria is a fighter and told us she wants to appeal.”
Calling Triece “the ideal volunteer,” because she helped with many classroom and school activities, he said the ruling “fails to recognize the importance of volunteers in schools.”
The OCPS declined to comment.
source: people.com