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[Mike Nolan]

> You tell the principal, not the cops.  If the principal is the one whom you suspect is guilty of abuse, you tell his or her boss.  The law is clear.
> 
> I also found this.
> 
> A person, hospital, institution, school, facility, agency or
> agency employee that participates in good faith in the making
> of a report . . . shall have immunity from civil and criminal liability that
> might otherwise result by reason of those actions.
> 
> So, my wife is safe from prosecution, but that doesn't mean that she is safe from retaliation from the school if she were to go over the administration's head.

I can tell you from professional experience that having immunity from 
criminal and civil liability under the law does NOT protect someone 
from being named as a defendant in a lawsuit.  And the law doesn't
pay for the lawyers to get the suit dismissed, either.
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Mike Nolan
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