Marquette Co, Wisconsin: Sheriff Joseph Konrath Threatened to Jail Teen for Posting on Instagram ...

Lawsuit: Sheriff Threatened to Jail Teen for Posting on Instagram That She Had Coronavirus

A lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that local law enforcement officers threatened to arrest and imprison a teen and her parents for disorderly conduct unless she removed a series of social media posts warning others that she had been infected with what she believed was the COVID-19 coronavirus. The complaint, filed on behalf of 16-year-old Amyiah Cohoon Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, claims that the Marquette County sheriff’s threat violated her constitutional right to free speech. According to the complaint, after returning from a school trip to Orlando with the Westfield Area ...

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