The lawsuit argues the family was “unfairly targeted” and “felt threatened” by the actions of the school and other defendants, alleging that the presence of law enforcement put them “in severe emotional distress.”
The student was asked to stay home after the reported exposure. When he came to school, he was put in the closet, the lawsuit alleges.A nurse at Wahlquist Junior High School in Farr West quarantined a student in a school storage closet after the student was exposed to COVID-19 through a classmate, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in 2nd District Court.
On Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, the student boarded a bus and went to school, where the lawsuit alleges he was stopped, then quarantined in a storage closet during first period. The lawsuit states the student was ordered to remain in the closet, which had no window, without his parents’ authorization. The next morning, before the boy’s school bus arrived, two Weber County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicles were parked near the Heatons’ residence, the lawsuit states. The Heatons again sent their son to school on the bus, and their son was again placed in the closet soon after he arrived, the lawsuit alleges.
Stephens, Dickson and Elliott are listed as defendants in the lawsuit, along with Brian Cowan, executive director of the Weber-Morgan Health Department, and Weber County Sheriff Ryan Arbon. So are Wahlquist Junior High, the Weber School District and the state school board. The father tried to get his son on the bus once again on Nov. 5, 2020, but the driver told him that his son would not be allowed to board until Nov. 13, or until he submitted a negative COVID-19 test, the complaint states.
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