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Proserpina

Senior Member
Do you have a very healthy bank account?

And a really good attorney on retainer?

If so...well, no. You STILL shouldn't do what you're planning to do.

If you have a grievance against a certain body, there are ways of addressing that. Posting flyers is NOT the right way to do it.

Unless you want to be buried by legal fees for the next decade? :confused:
 

paperingthetown

Junior Member
On the front: Are SE High School Teenagers Causing our Neighborhood to be Unsafe?

On the back: "I assert that teenagers who live on this street have been speeding through here for YEARS now, and it is dangerous and needs to stop. The community needs to hold these perpetrators accountable for their reckless and unsafe driving through our neighborhood. We deserve to be safe."

defamation?
 
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quincy

Senior Member
What state in the U.S. do you live in, paperingthetown? Defamation laws vary in significant ways from state to state.

That said, if written as proposed, your flyers would be targeting a very small, very identifiable group of individuals with accusations of criminal conduct. For this reason, the flyers would be defamatory and could spawn a defamation lawsuit (and this would be the case in any state in the country).

There are ways to address unsafe conditions in a community or neighborhood, and getting the neighbors involved is a good way to do it. Your flyers, should you decide to contact neighbors in this way and should the distribution of flyers not violate any city or township ordinance, could propose a community or neighborhood association meeting to address the unsafe conditions you have noticed, or you could present your complaints at a city or township board meeting.

You should be prepared with evidence to support your claims - ie. accidents that have occurred, tickets that have been issued, property damage that has resulted from reckless and unsafe driving on your streets - and, perhaps, you could have some suggestions as how to resolve the issue - ie. speed bumps, speed limit signs, more frequent police neighborhood drive-throughs.

You should NOT, however, point fingers at any single individual or any small and identifiable group of individuals, not without solid proof that what you claim is true. Not every SE High School teenager, and not every teenager on your street, is a reckless or unsafe driver and they should not be falsely labeled as such.

To make accusations of that sort is defamation and can result in costly litigation and an award of monetary damages.
 
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