Parents of a former Peekskill student—one a teacher and coach there—say they are suing the district because a member of the Peekskill High School staff took their daughter off campus to a health clinic to get birth-control pills, according to USA Today.
Peekskill school district officials told Patch they have not been served with any legal papers as of June 4.
Reporter Swapna Venugopal in The Journal News said the suit was filed May 30 in state Supreme Court by an attorney for Anthony and Eva Jackson of Newburgh, NY.
Named in the suit along with district officials are James and Dawn Tosto, a Peekskill High School psychologist and his wife who is on the staff of the Hudson Valley Community Health Center.
The Jacksons said they filed the suit on behalf of an unknown number of families whose children had been given reproductive health services.
Under state law, health services to students require parental consent—which can be presumed if an opt-out is offered but not taken.
According to a second story in The Journal News, Jackson is on leave from his teaching job at Woodside Elementary School. District officials would not comment to Venugopal about his employment status.
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