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Ticketed at #School as a Teen, a Young Black Woman Is Suing an #Illinois City for Violating Her Civil Rights
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It took four years and a jury trial for Amara Harris to beat the ticket that accused her of stealing another girl’s AirPods.
Now she’s heading back to court in the hope of stopping #schools from using #police to discipline #students.
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We've been following Amara's case for years. Here's our story from 2022 about her long-funning fight over the ticket:
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-police-tickets-illinois-naperville
And here's our coverage from last August of Amara's 3-day trial, where the jury ruled in her favor:
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-ticketing-naperville-illinois-airpods-amara-harris-verdict
A 3 day trial over a high school student picking up someone else's airpods, then returning them when someone pointed it out. The spokesperson for the city said “We are glad that this matter has come to a conclusion, the Defendant wanted her day in court and now that she has had it we are ready to move on.”
If I was a Napierville taxpayer, I'd want at minimum some substantive legal changes to prevent similar abuse. But I'd rather see some folks fired for idiocy.
Unsurprisingly, students of color were 5x more likely to be ticketed than white ones.
