Breaking: BCC High School Teacher sues BCC Principal and Board of Education for Defamation @mcps @mocoboe

The BCC student newspaper The Tattler first reported about the potential for this lawsuit to be filed in March of this year.

The Complaint has now been filed and is shown below. 

Note item #133 in the Complaint states:

133. As a result, and in retaliation for the newspaper’s critical coverage of Mooney’s mishandling of numerous issues over the past academic year, on or about June 1, 2023, Mooney relieved the newspaper’s faculty advisor of her position. 

Also see #171 - 178 titled Administrative Proceedings which discusses the MCPS internal administrative processes.  

 

The full text of the Complaint as filed in Montgomery County Circuit Court on August 21, 2023, is shown below and at the Scribd link.

Daniel Engler Complaint Against Shelton Mooney and Montgomery County BOE by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland on Scribd