Posted on 02/09/2017 10:00:20 PM PST by Rebelbase
[snip] A South Florida man is so annoyed by “robocalls” from Miramar High that he’s suing the school district.
In a federal lawsuit filed this week, Willie Willis — who does not have a child attending the Broward County school — claims more than two dozen of the automated calls since September have caused him a “significant amount of anxiety, frustration and annoyance.”
Pre-recorded phone calls using an artificial voice are standard for school districts, which use them to quickly inform parents about developments on campus. In Willis’ case, the calls were made to inform him that a student, unnamed in the lawsuit, was missing classes.
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Frivolous, though understandably annoying.
Maybe he found someone to represent him Pro Bono.
Nope, well within the law. I’ve won three cases so far, at about $1,500 each time. Don’t call me repeatedly after I tell you not to. I can’t be the only one here who has done this.
This must be a common occurrence.
A school robocalled me for months about a missing student... long before I had children.
The robocall messages were vague: “Your student was not in school today.” No name. No school number. No info.
When I found the school’s number and called, the school said they couldn’t connect the robocalls to a student. They said to ignore the calls.
IOW, this student was skipping school, and his parents weren’t receiving the robocalls. And the school office workers didn’t care.
Finally, one day, a teacher called, saying my son was missing school. Imagine her surprise when she found out I had no children.
We put the school number on block. The robo calls were coming in two a day sometimes. Every department thought it fun to use the system.
The school can’t reach us, not even in an emergency.
I took one to small claims and got a judgement for $500 but have not been able to collect it.
There are law firms who do nothing but “Do Not Call” suits.
Bingo. They have whole groups of non-appearing children to keep the rates up from the government.
Most likely someone fat fingered the data entry of the number into their outdialing system. If transcribing from handwritten numbers, may have also misread ambiguous writing.
More likely someone either wrote the wrong number on a form, or entered the number wrong into the computer. As for his complaints, nobody gave a damn.
>> Frivolous, though understandably annoying.
I disagree. If it took a day or two of complaining and they quit annoying him, I’d say frivolous.
When no one cares if you are being annoyed and no one attempts to fix the problem, then it’s not frivolous.
I have reported a number of callers to the Do Not Call website, but have found no way to follow up to see what, if any action has been taken. And the junk calls come from all over, but the few times I actually pick up it's Rachel from credit cards whatever or Microsoft saying my computer is infected, calling from a different city every time.
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