- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
I am a property owner in a POA (Property owners Association)
We have a board, and a general manager. We have covenants & declarations, by-laws, incorporation, rules. In the Rules section we have the a section about code of conduct. I filed two complaints based on it.....
1) Member was inthe fitness center photographing me with stated intent to "let everone know what I looked like".
2) another fellow, ironically the chairman of the hospitality comittee, launched into a verbal diatribe against me, F word, move the F out, blah blah. In the parking lot he charged me. I had called security. They got him on partial dash cam as they pulled up approaching me.
Point is I filed complaints. I have the board president on tape saying they turned that over to the GM to investigate. In the complaints I copied head of security to retain the video footage. Long after the complaints were filed - I have him on tape saying nobody has asked him for hte tapes - even though it was requested in the complaint. The complaint has been ignored.
More recently a young mom told my wife and I (taped) that in a Youth Advsory Board meeting, of which she is a member - the GM instructed her and others that were admins on a Facebook Group (Admined also by my wife - and NOT a POA controlled group) that these advisory team members were to censor and delete my posts.
There is a lot more - a strong pattern of actions taken to actively treat me differently from other property owners, deny me my rights, etc. Right now it isn't so much slander or libel in that they have made a direct untrue statement, such as "David did XYZ. that would take us to that libel/slander route..... it is more of a lot of things together. I have lots of strong indications that getting into communications through discovery would probably open this up in a very bad light for the GM / Board.
My question is.... what other legal complaint direction other than slander / libel could this go in? I also run one of the community newspapers. For explanation.... this is occurring because of some investigation stories we are doing - very unflattering, and possibly aming at criminal activity. Most everyone is aware that this is being done to discredit and intimidate me a s a news source in this matter.
My reason for asking is that I believe in doing my research BEFORE I meet with attorneys..... othing personal guys, but you guys are expensive, ad I want some basic understanding of the potential principles involved here before I go jumping into a lawsuit, retaining an attorney.
If clarifying questios can help - ask away.
Peace,
- david
We have a board, and a general manager. We have covenants & declarations, by-laws, incorporation, rules. In the Rules section we have the a section about code of conduct. I filed two complaints based on it.....
1) Member was inthe fitness center photographing me with stated intent to "let everone know what I looked like".
2) another fellow, ironically the chairman of the hospitality comittee, launched into a verbal diatribe against me, F word, move the F out, blah blah. In the parking lot he charged me. I had called security. They got him on partial dash cam as they pulled up approaching me.
Point is I filed complaints. I have the board president on tape saying they turned that over to the GM to investigate. In the complaints I copied head of security to retain the video footage. Long after the complaints were filed - I have him on tape saying nobody has asked him for hte tapes - even though it was requested in the complaint. The complaint has been ignored.
More recently a young mom told my wife and I (taped) that in a Youth Advsory Board meeting, of which she is a member - the GM instructed her and others that were admins on a Facebook Group (Admined also by my wife - and NOT a POA controlled group) that these advisory team members were to censor and delete my posts.
There is a lot more - a strong pattern of actions taken to actively treat me differently from other property owners, deny me my rights, etc. Right now it isn't so much slander or libel in that they have made a direct untrue statement, such as "David did XYZ. that would take us to that libel/slander route..... it is more of a lot of things together. I have lots of strong indications that getting into communications through discovery would probably open this up in a very bad light for the GM / Board.
My question is.... what other legal complaint direction other than slander / libel could this go in? I also run one of the community newspapers. For explanation.... this is occurring because of some investigation stories we are doing - very unflattering, and possibly aming at criminal activity. Most everyone is aware that this is being done to discredit and intimidate me a s a news source in this matter.
My reason for asking is that I believe in doing my research BEFORE I meet with attorneys..... othing personal guys, but you guys are expensive, ad I want some basic understanding of the potential principles involved here before I go jumping into a lawsuit, retaining an attorney.
If clarifying questios can help - ask away.
Peace,
- david
