Her name is Amyiah Cohoon!
Sept. 24, 2021
A girl threatened with charges or jail over her COVID social media posts has won a lawsuit against the sheriff
A federal judge has ruled in favor of a high school girl who said she was threatened with jail if she didn't take down her social media posts about her brush with COVID-19 last year.
Amyiah Cohoon, then a sophomore, took a spring break trip to Florida with the Westfield Area High School band in 2020. The students returned to Wisconsin on March 15, earlier than planned, because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Cohoon posted on Instagram that she thought she had been infected, had been to hospitals, and though she tested negative, her doctors thought she probably had had it earlier. In a final post, she is wearing an oxygen mask and says she's beaten COVID, and urges others to stay safe.
On March 27, Marquette County Sheriff's Sgt. Cameron Klump came to the Cohoon home and said Sheriff Joseph Konrath had ordered the posts be taken down, as he didn't believe there were any confirmed cases of COVID in the county.
Earlier that day, the school district administrator had notified parents there was "no truth" to rumors a student had contracted COVID-19 during the band trip. He called Cohoon's posts, "a foolish means to get attention and the source of the rumor has been addressed.”
Cohoon took down the posts but sued Konrath and his deputy a month later.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig granted her summary judgment in the case.
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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2021/09/24/deputy-violated-free-speech-wisconsin-girl-who-posted-covid-19-scare/5846380001/
Wisconsin teenager wins lawsuit over COVID-19 social media post
U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig ruled that Amyiah Cohoon’s constitutional right to free speech was violated when a Marquette County sheriff’s deputy in March 2020 demanded she take down the posts.
https://www.nbc15.com/2021/09/24/wisconsin-teenager-wins-lawsuit-over-covid-19-social-media-post/