A Tennessee School Agreed to Pay $100,000 to Family of 11-Year-Old Student Arrested Under School Threats Law

A Tennessee School Agreed to Pay $100,000 to Family of 11-Year-Old Student Arrested Under School Threats Law

Under the settlement, the Chattanooga charter school also agreed to implement training on how to handle threats of mass violence at school, including differentiating between “clearly innocuous statements” and “imminent” violence.

Chattanooga school agrees to pay $100,000 after an 11-year-old was arrested under threats of mass violence law

This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. A Chattanooga public charter school has agreed to pay the family of an 11-year-old boy $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit claiming that it wrongfully reported the student to police for an alleged threat of mass violence. The incident happened at the beginning of the school year when Junior, who is autisti…