#LCPS Conducts Whistle Blower Retaliation to Conceal FERPA Breach and Conceal Significant Federal Liabilities #LCPS #LCSO, #LindsayMohler #NickCottone #LoudounCounty #LoudounCountyGovernment #AaronSpence #LoudounCountySchoolBoard #LoudounCountyPublicSchools

This document was delivered via email to LCPS, LCSO, and Leesburg Police on Monday, August 17, 2026 at 8:00 am ET. 

The document provides the most significant evidence to-date of the unlawful State-Actor collusion between LCPS, LCSO and Lindsay Mohler and her firm Troxell Leigh P.C. 

What we can definitively prove is that 

1. Principal Kate Ridgeway (Lowes Island) and Principal Nick Cottone (Seneca Ridge) were subpoenaed by Lindsay Mohler on April 24, 2024.

2. Key Stipulation: The legal actions driving the subpoenas included no changes or allegations related to my joint legal custody of my children.

What is interesting is that in June of 2024 and again in June 2025, Principal Ridgeway made unprofessional and unlawful statements to me in email and verbally that I should expect to have my parental rights changed or voided.

3. FERPA Violation: LCPS failed to provided proper notification to me a parent of three student's enrolled in LCPS schools that a subpoena was issues regarding me and that LCPS and its employees were responding to said supboena. To this day, I have no information or understanding of what was subpoenaed or asked for in those subpoenas.

4. LCPS Disclosures: Based on Troxell Leigh P.C. billing statements, I can prove that LCPS responded to the April 24, 2024, subponeas.

Based on these four items outlined above, the NTO issued to me by John Clark and the Loudoun County SChool Board represents prima facie evidence of two things

1. Whistleblower retaliation, and 

2. De facto protection of State-Actor colluders Lindsay Mohler, Troxell Leigh P.C., and QlikTech, Inc (Qlik)

Unlawful Attempt to Silence a Whistleblower: The February 24, 2026 No-Trespass Order (NTO) signed by Director John Clark was executed as a fraudulent, bad-faith instrument designed to insulate LCPS from exposure for systemic federal and state law violations (including FERPA breaches, ADA non-compliance, and state-actor collusion).

Pretextual Security Justification: LCPS cannot manufacture a criminal trespass barrier under Va. Code § 18.2-119 against a joint legal custodian while simultaneously collaborating secretly with adverse private counsel and concealing statutory subpoena productions. Deploying police power to lock out a parent who exposed these unlawful practices constitutes aggravated civil rights retaliation under 34 C.F.R. § 100.7(e) and 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

It is clear that LCPS continues to commit major violations of Federal and State law each day it continues to maintain an NTO order against me.

The only reason LCPS issued the NTO order was to silence my advocacy because the documents uncovered via my VFOIA requests were so damaging that LCPS had no other choice than to break the law in order to avoid accountability.



FORMAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSMISSION: EXHIBIT G-15

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

DATE: August 14, 2026

SUBJECT: ADMINISTRATIVE DEPOSIT OF EXHIBIT G-15 — FORENSIC PROOF OF UNNOTICED APRIL 24, 2024 SUBPOENAS ON PRINCIPALS PUSCHAK AND COTTONE, FERPA BREACH, AND PRIMA FACIE PROOF OF RETALIATORY NTO TO CONCEAL FEDERAL LIABILITIES

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

Please find attached Forensic Exhibit G-15 (troxel leigh legal bill.pdf), representing official billing and process service records from Troxell Leigh P.C.

This document forensically establishes that LCPS leadership and cluster administrators engaged in secret, unnotified subpoena productions in direct violation of federal statutory mandates, providing conclusive prima facie proof of bad-faith retaliation:

I. FORENSIC PROOF OF SERVICE & SECRET DOCUMENT PRODUCTION

  1. Service on Principals Puschak and Cottone (April 24, 2024): Official process service records confirm that on April 24, 2024, Silver Star Investigations LLC (Invoice #000633) served subpoenas duces tecum directly on Kate Puschak (Principal, Lowes Island Elementary) and Nick Cottone (Principal, Seneca Ridge Middle School). Affidavits of service were downloaded and saved into the adverse firm's case file that same day.

  2. Failure to Provide Mandatory Advance Notice (34 C.F.R. § 99.31(a)(9)): Under FERPA (34 C.F.R. § 99.31(a)(9)), LCPS was legally mandated to make a reasonable effort to notify the Complainant in advance of complying with any judicial subpoena, so that the Complainant could seek a protective order. Neither Principal Puschak, Principal Cottone, nor LCPS central administration ever provided statutory notice of the issuance, service, or compliance with these subpoenas.

  3. Document Disclosures to Adverse Private Counsel (May 6–8, 2024): Billing records confirm that on May 6, 2024, LCPS transmitted subpoena response files to Lindsay Mohler. On May 8, 2024, Mohler billed for reviewing LCPS responses and preparing direct communications with LCPS counsel.

  4. Complete Absence of Custodial Nexus: The underlying Rule to Show Cause proceeding involved zero claims to alter or modify the Complainant’s joint legal custody. Enlisting public school principals into private, non-custodial domestic disputes under color of state law—without notice to the affected joint legal custodian—constitutes bad-faith administrative overreach.

II. PRIMA FACIE PROOF THAT THE FEBRUARY 2026 NTO IS A RETALIATORY COVER-UP INSTRUMENT

The Complainant explicitly puts Central Office Leadership, the Loudoun County School Board, and Division Counsel on formal notice that these documented violations establish prima facie proof of fraudulent administrative action:

  • Unlawful Attempt to Silence a Whistleblower: The February 24, 2026 No-Trespass Order (NTO) signed by Director John Clark was executed as a fraudulent, bad-faith instrument designed to insulate LCPS from exposure for systemic federal and state law violations (including FERPA breaches, ADA non-compliance, and state-actor collusion).

  • Pretextual Security Justification: LCPS cannot manufacture a criminal trespass barrier under Va. Code § 18.2-119 against a joint legal custodian while simultaneously collaborating secretly with adverse private counsel and concealing statutory subpoena productions. Deploying police power to lock out a parent who exposed these unlawful practices constitutes aggravated civil rights retaliation under 34 C.F.R. § 100.7(e) and 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

III. TOTAL INVALIDATION OF VFOIA PRIVILEGE OVER LCPS-MOHLER RECORDS

The May 8, 2024 billing entry ("Prepare email to counsel for LCPS") establishes direct, extrajudicial coordination between private attorney Lindsay Mohler and LCPS legal representatives. Because LCPS and Mohler shared no attorney-client relationship, joint defense agreement, or common legal interest, LCPS has no lawful basis under Va. Code § 2.2-3705.1 to withhold the 172 pages of Mohler-LCPS correspondence under FOIA Request R002437-121125, as well as all other outstanding VFOIA requests still pending of roughly 1,141+ pages of documents.

IV. REITERATED MANDATORY REMEDIES

  1. Immediate Production of Subpoena Compliance File: Immediately produce a complete, unredacted copy of all records, correspondence, and disclosures provided by Principals Puschak and Cottone to Lindsay Mohler in response to the April 24, 2024 subpoenas.

  2. Immediate Release of the 172 Withheld VFOIA Pages: Secure the immediate transmission of all 172 pages of non-privileged Mohler-LCPS correspondence withheld under FOIA Request R002437-121125.

  3. Immediate Rescission of the Retaliatory NTO: Formally vacate the fraudulent February 24, 2026 order signed by Director John Clark, dissolve all digital blockades, and restore complete, unhindered joint legal custodial access.

  4. Immediate Termination Proceedings: Initiate 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.

  5. Procurement Integrity Debarment (Policy 2350): Enforce LCPS Policy 2350 to terminate commercial sponsorships with Khanna Law, PLLC, and debar software vendor QlikTech, Inc., for data spoliation, infrastructure cross-contamination, and administrative record falsification.

  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.

This notice has 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.

Sincerely,

Steven Rubis

Joint Legal Custodian

(214) 681-7991

(202) 997-4815

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