School bus magnets with wrong number on them that was my home phone. Superintendent would not send them back to publisher and wanted me to change my home phone number that I've had for many years. Threw me in jail for 48 days without benefit of a hearing. I feel I was bullied and harassed by a school district official who accused me of stalking.
In order to be convicted for stalking, you MUST be given a hearing. That's called "due process of law."
Is it possible you were arrested and jailed awaiting your court date and they decided to drop the charges and that's why you didn't get a hearing?
As for suing the school or the school official, this gets messy. Depending on your conduct and behavior, you just may have crossed the line of acceptable conduct giving the police probable cause to arrest you. To a certain extent, it's going to boil down to "he said", "he said." It will also depend on what evidence you have supporting your bullying theory and what they have to rebut it with. Also, school districts in Georgia enjoy what's called "sovereign immunity." That means that you normally can't sue a state, county or local government, agency, body or entity unless its for a breach of contract, gross negligence or some heinous intentional act. You'd have to sit down with a lawyer to discuss the details of the events to see if you have a case and whether it would be worth trying to pursue.
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