tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12154755999450044242024-02-20T04:20:43.841-08:00A Tale of Two Cities: Human Rights in Eastern Ohio & DOJ Pattern and Practice Police InvestigationsTwo Eastern Ohio Former Steel Towns Have Become Ground
Zero in Ohio for Serious Issues of Pattern and Practice
Police Misconduct Federal Litigation and DOJ Civil Rights Section InvestigationsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-16028971868519404942017-01-11T11:26:00.002-08:002017-01-11T11:26:35.385-08:00New Book by Tim Tolka, Young Writer Dealing w Steubenville and Warren Ohio Consent Decrees Is Making Waves on Internet/Copwatch Siteshttp://www.copblock.org/167516/blue-mafia-book-explores-police-brutality-consent-decrees-ohio/<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-79479349277748032872014-12-19T19:35:00.001-08:002014-12-19T19:35:15.815-08:00Lyndal Kimble WarrenPolice Beating 7 2003<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IlruaNxZpU8" width="459"></iframe><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-47875132586930130452014-12-17T18:04:00.002-08:002014-12-17T18:04:14.094-08:00Cleveland Plain Dealer Looks Towards Warren and DOJ Historic Consent Decree There for Guidance on Cleveland's New One<a href="http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2014/12/warrens_work_with_justice_depa.html#comments">http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2014/12/warrens_work_with_justice_depa.html#comments</a><br />
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Warren, Ohio and the Lyndal Kimble case, which was litigated by Atty Richard Olivito, became the subject of a recent CPlain Dealer article that focused on the "path forward" from the latest DOJ Civil Rights Division pronouncement that the City of Cleveland had been weighed by the DOJ and found wanting inside its CPD.<br />
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Its a sobering thing to get woke up from years of official denial and hubris and self talk.<br />
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Warren, knows it. So does Steubenville, Ohio<br />
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It takes a lot to have this stated openly and with honesty and its no mean thing.<br />
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the City leaders always search for answers as if a jumbo jet just crashed thru their ceiled ceilings and think walled in mental states of denial, which are heavier and harder to mount that any concrete embodiment.<br />
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But it was not a little rewarding for those few of us, who fought this good fight, with serious sustained years of loss, to see that now, what we had sacrificed for, for years,<br />
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wasn't being lost completely nor is it vain, when even the largest metro city in Ohio, and certainly in northeastern Ohio...<br />
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has now been struck w a serious sobering shot of reality from the DEPT of JUSTICE Civil Rights Division<br />
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Welcome and say hello to my little friends <br />
those of you, in Warren/Cleveland and surrounding burbs...<br />
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...this story is just beginningUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-10131596397255452832014-07-01T15:13:00.001-07:002014-07-01T15:14:35.775-07:00In their first major Post Warren consent decree DOJ Report, The Fed Civil Rights Division Oversight finds Warren Pd Administrative Officers are "lackadasical" in their Use of Force reporting and not utilizing correct legal standards in completing the same. <a href="http://www.vindy.com/news/2013/dec/25/report-praises-criticizes-police-efforts/">http://www.vindy.com/news/2013/dec/25/report-praises-criticizes-police-efforts/</a><br />
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Published: Wed, December 25, 2013 @ 12:05 a.m.warrenU.S. Justice Dept. reviews use-of-force policies, proceduresBy Ed Runyanrunyan@vindy.comWARRENThe U.S. Justice Department, in a review of the Warren Police Department’s use-of-force policies and procedures, is both complimentary and critical of the police department’s efforts.A 36-page report compliments police Chief Eric Merkel for resolving “long-pending policies for use of force” that remained after Tim Bowers had retired as police chief in June, but it calls compliance with some policies “lackadaisical.”Changes in the department’s use-of-force policies were mandated in a settlement between the city and Justice Department in 2012, after nearly a decade of investigation of complaints by citizens and a finding by Justice officials that the department carried out unconstitutional policing.Among the achievements noted in the report is that the police department now has policies in place for use of stun guns, tactical batons and pepper spray, and has trained all of its officers in their use.The department, however, “still needs to improve its use-of-force reviews to ensure that all uses of force [match] the approved policy and constitutional standards.”The Justice Department said the department had done a better job in getting a supervisor involved promptly when a use-of-force issue arose — to “examine the subject for injury, interview the subject and ensure that the subject receives needed medical attention.”The situations reviewed by the Justice Department during its visit in September show “a significant step forward and provides senior-level [police department] reviewers with more data for assessing the objective reasonableness of the uses of force,” the Justice Department said.The report says, however, reviews of use of force by the captain in charge of patrol officers, Tim Roberts, indicated a “significant shortcoming” because he “almost never applied correct legal or policy standards” in his reviews.<!-- OAS_AD('Middle'); //-->“This executive’s lackadaiscal approach to use-of-force reviews flowed downward to intermediate and direct supervisors who often likewise failed to assess force” correctly, the report said.The department must evaluate use of force as to whether it is “objectively reasonable” or not, the report says. The objectively reasonable standard was established by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1989 landmark ruling on law enforcement use of force. The Justice Department said Roberts “nearly uniformly” labeled officer use of force as “minimal,” instead of indicating whether it was objectively reasonable given the information the officer had, “nor did he reconcile inconsistencies in officers’ statements about some uses of force.” The department carried out additional training after the Justice Department first pointed out the problem several months ago. Merkel said Monday the “objectively reasonable” issue was primarily a matter of “using the wrong word” and felt the report was mostly positive. The Justice Department said the police department is doing a good job of making officer-complaint forms available to the public and it has made a “vast improvement” in completing use-of-force reports. In the past, it was “clearly indicated that officers shared their narratives” when asked to report on use of force, but “officers are now authoring their own narratives,” the report said. The department needs to do a better job of providing photographs of injuries caused by use of force and needs to provide electronic data from stun guns used against citizens, the report said. The report said internal-affairs investigations of complaints by citizens should more consistently involve an interview with the person filing the complaint rather than relying only on what was provided in a complaint form.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-90618108855262390302014-06-27T21:49:00.002-07:002014-07-01T15:17:05.468-07:00Warren Ohio in 2012 becomes the second City {in Eastern Ohio} that Attorney Richard Olivito helped the DOJ bring about a U.S. Civil Rights Division Police Misconduct Consent Decree by his original 2003-4 civil rights lawsuits<a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/warrenpd_settlement_1-26-12.pdf">http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/warrenpd_settlement_1-26-12.pdf</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-89120471196124174422014-06-27T21:43:00.001-07:002014-06-27T21:43:42.975-07:00The case that shattered Warren Ohio's Illusions and Made Even the Bush Justice Dept Want to Investigate Police Brutality<a href="http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/06a0076p-06.pdf">http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/06a0076p-06.pdf</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-67415250330510186022013-10-20T12:47:00.000-07:002013-10-20T12:47:11.773-07:00Another News Release stating background of Warren Consent Decree dates back to "cases which brought National attention to Warren and citizen complaints back to 2004"<a href="http://www.wfmj.com/story/16517991/warren-resolves-complaints-of-excessive-force?clienttype=mobile">http://www.wfmj.com/story/16517991/warren-resolves-complaints-of-excessive-force?clienttype=mobile</a><br />
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This is the reference by the Northern District US Attorney who made the announcement about the DOJ civil rights division creating a consent decree for the WPD<br />
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dating back to the complaints of civil rights violations "which brought national attention to Warren" triggering the investigation in 2004."<br />
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He was speaking about the Lyndal Kimble case and the subsequent other civil rights issues and cases which brought the national spotlight to Warren...<br />
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and took me to Washington DC ...in August 2003 to speak directly with the US Justice Dept about the situation and pattern I was alleging then inside of various lawsuits which were then about to be filed and were filed in the following months shortly after this initial confidential meeting in DC with representatives of the US Civil Rights Division who knew me from the work on the Steubenville consent decree in the 90's and spoke about the same to me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-24830995914861680742013-09-28T18:35:00.001-07:002013-09-28T18:35:54.114-07:001997 Landmark Steubenville Consent Decree and the Dept of Justice's Homepage Presentation <a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/steubensa.php">http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/steubensa.php</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-87200474335942929512013-09-28T06:06:00.001-07:002013-09-28T06:06:10.794-07:00A background story and a familiar one with some additional details about the complex culture of Eastern Ohio Cities who were and are still influenced by Mob and Corrupt Officials Interests of all backgrounds <a href="http://youngstownpride.blogspot.com/2004/12/city-that-fell-in-love-with-mob.html">http://youngstownpride.blogspot.com/2004/12/city-that-fell-in-love-with-mob.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-30511870381529950682013-03-31T20:38:00.001-07:002013-03-31T20:38:24.438-07:00USDOJ: Justice Department Settles with Warren, Ohio, Police Department<a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crt-054.html">USDOJ: Justice Department Settles with Warren, Ohio, Police Department</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-88343657656298335392013-01-19T11:04:00.001-08:002013-01-19T11:04:11.100-08:00Ytown is My Town: The city that fell in love with the mob - Crimetown USA<a href="http://youngstownpride.blogspot.com/2004/12/city-that-fell-in-love-with-mob.html">Ytown is My Town: The city that fell in love with the mob - Crimetown USA</a><br />
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Warren ...wasn't necessarily Y town, but Warren may hav been worse notice the police being "mobbed up" by the pittsburgh underbossUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-21699507940269916152013-01-16T17:51:00.001-08:002013-01-16T17:51:38.040-08:00A case study on police misconduct in the United States of America and an applicable model for the Turkish National Police., Page: 92 | UNT Digital Library<a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3234/m1/98/">A case study on police misconduct in the United States of America and an applicable model for the Turkish National Police., Page: 92 | UNT Digital Library</a><br />
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referencing inside the report the USA todays' article which mentions the DOJ's steubenville and pittsburgh police 14141 p&p investigations and findings and decrees as creating a new approach to modern policing standardsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-35609461739061473062013-01-15T02:43:00.001-08:002013-01-15T02:43:54.649-08:00PlainSite :: Flashlight :: Case No. 95-3629: Andrew Hython v. City of Steubenville<a href="http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=1222453">PlainSite :: Flashlight :: Case No. 95-3629: Andrew Hython v. City of Steubenville</a><br />
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the original federal civil rights case which led directly to the U.S. Justice Dept deciding to review the City of Steubenville as its first milestone investigation into america's policing issues of pattern and practice civil rights abuses inside a city which had basically routinely and for years, violated its residents and citizens fundamental civil and constitutional rightsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-50848300176395418412013-01-12T01:37:00.001-08:002013-01-12T01:37:13.786-08:00Petition circulating calls for disbarment of Prosecutor Jane Hanlin… | The RadioNewz Blog<a href="http://radionewz.net/2013/01/petition-circulating-calling-for-disbarment-of-prosecutor-jane-hanlin/comment-page-1/">Petition circulating calls for disbarment of Prosecutor Jane Hanlin… | The RadioNewz Blog</a><br />
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in the blog post.....at the end of the thread and rather brutal but seriously dedicated folks running demands that Hanlin be dumped and even disbarred for her "cover up" of her alleged involvement in the weirton girls rape case creating a national and international running commentary on the internet...<br />
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we find that Anonymous ...posts to this site....the Steubvenville 1997 consent decree....<br />
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and it ends the conversation on this subject and blogUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-6583029855185459812013-01-11T15:00:00.001-08:002013-01-11T15:00:55.307-08:00Consent Decrees - Memoranda of Agreement - Monitor Reports<a href="http://www.parc.info/consent_decrees_-_memoranda_of_agreement_-_monitor_reports.chtml">Consent Decrees - Memoranda of Agreement - Monitor Reports</a><br />
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find the steubenville docs...on this parked page...steubenville consent decree monitor reports Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-65258427040992591762013-01-11T13:45:00.001-08:002013-01-11T13:45:29.684-08:00Vanishing Immunity Deal Throws More Steubenville Players Back in Spotlight - National - The Atlantic Wire##<a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/01/steubenville-case-immunity-deal/60855/#">Vanishing Immunity Deal Throws More Steubenville Players Back in Spotlight - National - The Atlantic Wire##</a><br />
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sounds like the Defense lawyers were right after all....there was a promise at least of "no prosecution"<br />
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and...that an immunity of some type was in fact...offered to the three young teenage boy witnesses by the most powerful state prosecutor in Ohio<br />
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but i guess...w/ these republican and local politicians...these young men..are finding out early in life<br />
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with politics and state office holders..."nothing is certain"...and boy...what a way to discover this reality...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-33075922973077797282013-01-10T06:07:00.001-08:002013-01-10T06:07:32.486-08:00The Steubenville Rape Case's Party Host Has His Sports Scholarship Under Review - National - The Atlantic Wire<a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/01/steubenville-rape-case-party-host/60656/">The Steubenville Rape Case's Party Host Has His Sports Scholarship Under Review - National - The Atlantic Wire</a><br />
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the possible and serious tie or connection between the local present day prosecutor of Jeff Co Ohio and the serious allegations arising out of the City of Steubenville's current national media case concerning a teen age alleged rape of a very intoxicated young womanUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-23702308578731107032013-01-10T05:13:00.001-08:002013-01-10T05:13:20.089-08:00Ohio Gang Rape: DOJ Found Steubenville Police Misconduct in 1997 «<a href="http://trialready.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/ohio-gang-rape-case-doj-found-steubenville-police-misconduct-in-1997/#comment-727">Ohio Gang Rape: DOJ Found Steubenville Police Misconduct in 1997 «</a> a legal analyst and critical California experienced lawyer....picks up on the missing link....and the hstory of pattern civil rights abuses...here in steubenvilleUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-22265807153831806352012-01-16T14:54:00.000-08:002012-01-16T14:54:21.353-08:00Did Cops in Taped Arrest Get Too Rough? - ABC News<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125003&page=1#.TxSqMQYJLlU.blogger">Did Cops in Taped Arrest Get Too Rough? - ABC News</a><br /><br /><br />the original main event of Warrens PD in 2003, caught on videotape<br />beating Lyndle Kimble and our GMA interview that helped create the<br />basis for the U.S. Dept of Justice Special Litigation Unit to come<br /> into Warren and begin its 1441 investigation of whether or not there<br />was a pattern and practice issue in this city among its PD ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-40787039259346912452012-01-15T10:33:00.000-08:002012-11-25T08:45:13.021-08:00Welcome to the United States Department of Justice<a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crt-054.html#.TxMbYJvfa_s.blogger">Welcome to the United States Department of Justice</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crt-054.html">http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crt-054.html</a><br />
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The U.S. Justice Dept's Official Press Release over its "finding the WPD engaged in a pattern and practice of civil rights violations, against its citizens. This investigation began after a series of lawsuits were filed in 2004 alleging civil rights excessive force."<br />
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The wheels of justice turns very slowly but...at least...it turned ...and this decree becomes another major milestone in the work of the DOJ Civil Rights Division into Eastern Ohio rust belt cities who maintained police departments over its citizens that resembled occupational forces rather than true servants of the public...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-74454244283090721952012-01-14T12:47:00.000-08:002012-01-14T12:47:37.095-08:00Main Justice � Ohio Police Force Pledges Reform � PrintMain Justice � Ohio Police Force Pledges Reform<br /><br />So finally...this is the finding of the U.S. Justice Dept after eight years...<br /><br />"we found that the Warren City Police Dept has violated its citizens civil rights in a pattern and practice manner ..."<br /><br />the Chief of the present U.S. Civil Right Division ....statements yesterday about the Warren PD<br /><br />maybe...someone ought to pay a serious price to the victims of such pattern and practice findings....<br /><br />then they can say "this oversight, this consent decree will end..."<br /><br />as it is...its of little or no consequence to those of us who fought the powers in Warren and inside the Federal U.S. Courthouses of northeastern Ohio and in Cincinnati, in order to pave the way for this<br />nice, tiddy high minded statement to be finally presented at a nice professional looking news conference<br /><br />but at least, they came to the logical conclusion that so few of us were willing to place our own reputations on the line for and our careers<br />back in 2004, ...a process which began with this lawyer triggering the civil rights lawsuits that even according to this press conference, triggered this U.S. Justice Dept investigation and findings, almost an entire decade later...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-76065544389021022352011-09-20T09:11:00.000-07:002011-09-20T09:27:58.088-07:00The US justice Department has announced after remaining basically silent on the issue for the past several years, it is going to or has been "ramping up" 1441 litigation investigations on their special litigation sections' current watch.<br />
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At first, i was very encouraged by the news, wherein the special litigstion section is stating its undertaking 17 separate such 1441 investigations across america; quickly indicating this is the most any administration has under taken at once.<br />
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But then a certain air of reality set in and i began to think,'why is it in america, such big news for our national top lawyers, which is currently stated to be a liberal, if he wishes to be considered as more a democratic than republican AG....to do what is only what they ought to b doing and should have been doing from the day they first got their jobs?...its only right, and true, when there is a solid, serious limited narrow focused federal law on point &<br />
is the only law that allows such a huge national problem to be redressed, in this manner, ..then when and why is it in america, so very newsworthy, when the civil rights division gets to do finally, apparently, what it is both designed for and also is legally obligated to do,'in the first instance....<br />
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perhaps,'its just the nature of things ...seeing a government try to self regulate its own polce powers, is always a curious thing at any time in human history....after all, govt is there for the policing of others, not itself....usually in the scheme of human history.....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-83062623712094671832011-04-16T06:00:00.000-07:002011-04-16T06:00:28.366-07:00Stratton House Inn :: Moses Fleetwood Walker (1857-1924)-- A Black Baseball Hero<a href="http://strattonhouse.com/index.php?section=history&content=fleetwood_walker">Stratton House Inn :: Moses Fleetwood Walker (1857-1924)-- A Black Baseball Hero</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-73713360132985500482011-03-18T11:55:00.000-07:002011-03-18T11:55:54.631-07:00HeinOnline<a href="http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals%2Fstlpl22&div=7&id=&page=">HeinOnline</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1215475599945004424.post-7295604862397464122011-02-28T14:58:00.000-08:002011-02-28T14:58:28.501-08:00Help Kelley Williams-Bolar, Mother Jailed For Sending Children to “Wrong” School<a href="http://thecurvature.com/2011/01/26/help-kelley-williams-bolar-mother-jailed-for-sending-children-to-wrong-school/?sms_ss=blogger&at_xt=4d6c284d2dffecbb%2C0">Help Kelley Williams-Bolar, Mother Jailed For Sending Children to “Wrong” School</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0