The lawsuit filed by Alcovy High School Principal LaQuanda Carpenter against several anonymous bloggers was amended late Friday afternoon to add one person: Newton County School Board District 1 representative Jeff Meadors. Complaints against Meadors are the same as those against the previously named defendants, including libel per se, libel, slander and actual malice, and the lawsuit requests damages, as well as court costs and attorney fees. However, Meadors strongly disputed nearly everything in the lawsuit and said in a Friday evening phone interview that he is in fact the one being
BOE member named in AHS lawsuit