Victoria Triece (WOFL/YouTube).
A Florida judge ruled in favor of a school district that prevented a mom who modeled for the adult website OnlyFans from volunteering at her kids’ elementary school after it learned what she did for a living.
Victoria Triece sued Orange County Public Schools for $1 million in 2023 after the school district said she would no longer volunteer Sand Lake Elementary School because of her occupation. The principal received an anonymous email in 2021 from a “concerned parent” along with two explicit photos of Triece.
“It has come to several parents at Sand Lake Elementary that one of the room mothers that spends time at the school is publically (sic) posting pornography thru various sources on the internet. This woman is constantly around our children and her public profiles are well known. This is the not the content or subject matter that our children need to be exposed to,” the email read.
The school’s principal, Kathleen Phillips, alerted her boss. Ultimately, the school said she could no longer volunteer. Triece sued, arguing that she was robbed of her due process and privacy rights.
After filing the lawsuit, Triece spoke to the media at attorney Mark NeJame’s office, saying she felt “humiliated.”
“Nobody has the right to judge what other people do for a living. I feel judged, and so isolated,” she said, according to Orlando NBC affiliate WESH.
But Orange County Circuit Judge Brian S. Sandor wrote in a 22-page opinion filed Jan. 29 that Triece does not have a “substantive due process right” to volunteer in the program. Sandor also noted that Triece never appealed the decision with the school district itself. There’s nothing in the district’s policy that says parents have a right to volunteer, the judge argued.
“That policy … does not include any language that confers any right or benefit upon an individual to participate in the program, to remain in the program, or to appeal a removal decision. On these points, the policy is silent,” Sandor wrote.
Triece also stated in her suit that the sexually explicit images attached to the email were distributed among staff within the school and district. The images also were disseminated to media organizations who filed public records requests. The images were public record, according to Sandor.
“Finding that the images are public records that are subject to public disclosure, the Court also finds that on the record presented, Plaintiff cannot prevail on her claim that OCPS invaded her right to privacy by disclosing the images within OCPS, to those OCPS employees who needed the information to respond to public records requests,” Sandor wrote.
Sandor granted the school district’s motion for summary judgement on all accounts.
NeJame did not respond to a request for comment from local CBS affiliate WKMG.
