ACADEMY AT IVY RIDGE
5428 State Highway 37
Ogdensburg, NY 13669
Phone (315) 393 -5930
Fax (315) 393-5940

January 21, 2004

Ginger Warbis
webmistress@fornts.com
P.O. Box 67
MonessenPA 15062

Subj:	Warning about Publication of Slanderous Material on the Internet. 
Dear M’am,
As staff at Academy at Ivy Ridge, we have been the recipients of slanderous material that has been posted on your internet site about our school. As professionals, we find this to be a personal insult to our positions and the importance we play in the lives of hundreds of students who are in need of programs such as ours.

We are writing to first ask you to remove such defamatory attacks that have been posted on your site by webmistress@fornits.com. Second, we are giving you the chance to remove the element of intent from use of this information. The organizations that are being assaulted all have trustworthy programs that are regulated by state agencies.

Third, this letter will serve as a warning that tough legal action will follow, if the request and warnings are not complied with. In most states, especially here in New York, such organizations and individuals who work for such organizations have well-established rights that protect them against the dissemination of such slanderous and otherwise harmful information. Our livelihood depends on the success of our facility and our community depends on us to be here.

We trust that you and your organization will be more careful in the future about the nature and content of derogatory criticism of legitimate institutions which are serving the community and the parents of pre-delinquent children who are required to attend highly-structured educational program simply because they have previously failed to succeed at home, in their communities, at church, and within the public school system.

Such programs as ours deserve your praise and not your unwarranted, unjustified, and untruthful criticism and misrepresentation of our program.

Sincerely,

Staff of Academy at Ivy Ridge