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This document was delivered via email to LCPS, LCSO, and Leesburg Police on Friday, August 14, 2026, at 8:01 am ET. 

The document outlines two major issues for LCPS, LCSO, and Leesburg Police, as well as Lindsay Mohler and her firm Troxell Leigh P.C.

Unlawful possession of sealed judicial records, and

Privilege Fraud

These problems translate into significant legal exposure for LCPS, LCSO, and Leesburg Police via Prejudicial Use and Constitutional Torts.

Essentially, LCPS has been retaliating against me on behalf of Lindsay Mohler and Troxell Leigh P.C. since October 2023. 

In the next post, I will provide some of the most significant legal exposure yet for the actors involved here.

Accountability needs to occur for the Federal and State law violations conducted by these government entities. 

 COMBINED FORMAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSMISSION: EXHIBITS G-12 & G-13

TO: Marc Bergin, Chief of Staff; John Clark, Director of Safety & Security; Dr. Kate Ridgeway, Principal (Kate.Puschak@lcps.org); Jennifer Painter, Assistant Principal (Jennifer.Painter@lcps.org)

CC: Dr. Aaron Spence, Superintendent; Loudoun County School Board; Division Counsel; Loudoun County Sheriff's Office; Leesburg Police Department; U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

DATE: August 14, 2026

SUBJECT: ADMINISTRATIVE DEPOSIT OF EXHIBITS G-12 & G-13 — FORENSIC PROOF OF UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF SEALED COURT RECORDS, STATE-ACTOR CROSS-CONTAMINATION WITH LINDSAY MOHLER, AND TACIT ADOPTION OF BIAS BY LOWES ISLAND ELEMENTARY ADMINISTRATION

Mr. Bergin, Mr. Clark, Principal Ridgeway, and Assistant Principal Painter:

Please find attached Forensic Exhibit G-12 (231208 Rubis Petition for Affidavit For Rule to Show Cause.pdf) and Forensic Exhibit G-13 (230817 Gmail - Class Placement.pdf).

• Exhibit G-12 represents a domestic pleading filed in Loudoun County Circuit Court (Case No. CL21-6851-01) on December 8, 2023, by private attorney Lindsay Mohler (Troxell Leigh P.C.), which was fully resolved, dismissed, and sealed by formal court order in Loudoun County Circuit Court.
• Exhibit G-13 represents native email correspondence between the Complainant, Principal Dr. Kate Ridgeway (Puschak), and Assistant Principal Jennifer Painter occurring between August 17 and August 21, 2023.

The Complainant explicitly puts Central Office Leadership, Principal Kate Ridgeway, and Assistant Principal Jennifer Painter on formal notice of the following statutory violations, bad-faith administrative acts, and constitutional torts:

I. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF SEALED JUDICIAL RECORDS & PRIVILEGE FRAUD

1. Sealed Judicial Record: The attached Rule to Show Cause petition (Exhibit G-12) was fully resolved, dismissed, and sealed by formal court order in Loudoun County Circuit Court.
2. Unlawful State-Actor Dissemination & Cross-Contamination: As formally admitted by LCPS FOIA Officer Dan Adams on March 10, 2026 (confirming 172 pages of withheld correspondence between LCPS staff and private attorney Lindsay Mohler behind Request R002437-121125 under a fraudulent claim of "privilege"), LCPS administrators actively solicited, received, and reviewed private domestic court materials. Private attorney Lindsay Mohler possessed no legal authority to supply sealed or unprivileged domestic records to public school officials, nor did LCPS possess lawful authority to acquire or maintain them.
3. Written Notice & Tacit Administrative Adoption by Ridgeway and Painter (Exhibit G-13): On August 21, 2023, at 7:48 AM ET, the Complainant formally served Principal Kate Ridgeway and Assistant Principal Jennifer Painter with explicit written notice exposing that Lowes Island Elementary leadership had acquired, reviewed, and relied upon private, unprivileged domestic communications shared during divorce proceedings. Neither Principal Ridgeway nor Assistant Principal Painter ever denied, rebutted, or disproved these written assertions. Their silence constitutes a binding, tacit administrative admission that LCPS acquired, maintained, and acted upon unprivileged domestic files.
4. Pretextual Protocol of Institutional Stonewalling: In her August 17, 2023 dispatch (Exhibit G-13), Principal Ridgeway explicitly announced the division's strategy: "communications of this nature will not be responded to in the future." This confirms that LCPS leadership established a deliberate policy of administrative lockouts and stonewalling to avoid answering for workforce misconduct, custodial interference, and the unlawful acquisition of private domestic records.

II. PREJUDICIAL USE & CONSTITUTIONAL TORTS (42 U.S.C. § 1983)

1. Prejudicial Administrative Treatment & Class Placement Bias: LCPS leadership, Principal Ridgeway, and Assistant Principal Painter utilized the ex parte, sealed allegations contained within Exhibit G-12 as a covert, unannounced basis to treat the Complainant in a hostile, prejudicial manner—including assigning the Complainant’s minor child to a teacher (Ms. Hanlon) who had overseen multiple suicide risk assessments and exhibited documented custodial bias.
2. Manufactured Basis for Retaliatory Lockout: The information funneled by Lindsay Mohler to LCPS was weaponized by Director John Clark to execute the February 24, 2026 No-Trespass Order (NTO) less than 4.5 hours after HRTD anti-retaliation notices were issued.
3. Violation of Fourteenth Amendment Due Process: Relying on sealed, non-adjudicated domestic allegations provided by an adverse private attorney—without providing the joint legal custodian notice, an administrative hearing, or an opportunity to confront the record—constitutes bad-faith deprivation of parental rights and due process under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

III. REITERATED MANDATORY REMEDIES

1. Immediate Rescission of the Retaliatory NTO: Formally vacate the February 24, 2026 order signed by Director John Clark, dissolve all digital blockades, and restore complete, unhindered joint legal custodial access across all LCPS physical and digital portals.
2. Purge of Unlawful & Leaked Files: Immediately purge all sealed court records, unprivileged Mohler correspondence, and covert domestic files from LCPS administrative databases and student cumulative folders.
3. Immediate Termination Proceedings: Initiate immediate termination proceedings for Seneca Ridge MS Principal Nick Cottone and Director of Safety & Security John Clark for bad-faith retaliation, civil rights violations, and state-actor collusion.
4. Procurement Integrity Debarment (Policy 2350): Enforce LCPS Policy 2350 to immediately terminate all commercial relationships with Khanna Law, PLLC, and initiate formal vendor debarment proceedings against software vendor QlikTech, Inc., for data spoliation, infrastructure cross-contamination, and administrative record falsification.
5. Delivery of Converted Public Records: Secure the immediate, unhindered transmission of all 1,141 responsive VFOIA records owed across multiple requests, including the 172 pages of withheld Mohler-LCPS correspondence.
6. Notice of Accrued Claim for Damages: Formal notice of ongoing, accrued damages in the amount of $2,148,000.00 and continuing, resulting from bad-faith civil rights violations, custodial deprivation, and administrative conversion of public assets.

These exhibits have been permanently preserved, time-stamped, and appended to the active case file with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and Congressional oversight records.

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