My question involves restraining orders in the State of: Ohio

This story is quite long so I will attempt to be as brief as possible. My son and his friends who are all high school seniors, have bickered back and forth with another group of seniors. All childish, high school stuff. There have never been any violence or threats of violence from either side. This other group of students has the sympathy of the school administration, I think because one of the student's father is a teacher and coach and her uncle also works at the school. They would constantly monitor my son and his friends facebook and twitter accounts, and print things they thought were inappropriate and take it to the principal who would subsequently punish my son and his friends, going as far as suspending them and threatening to keep them from walking with their class at graduation. All of the posts were outside of school hours, and during their own time. The ACLU even got involved and sent a stern letter advising them to reverse the suspensions and wipe them from the students records, because they thought it was a violation of these students civil rights. The principal refused to reverse the suspensions and continued to punish these students for this nonsense, while each and every time my son and his group would take information that proves these other students were harassing my son and his friends to the principal he would do nothing to stop the cycle. My wife and I have been to the school multiple times to try to get the principal, or superintendent to do something before it escalated. The parents of my son's friends have also been to the principal and superintendent to try to get something done about it. We asked for mediation and still nothing was ever done to correct the behavior of these other students. The day of their senior class picture, these students, instead of wearing a T-shirt with the voted and agreed upon senior slogan, wore T-shirts with an obvious jab at my son and his friends. The principal took no issue with it. Later that day my son and his friends were just joking with each other repeating the slogan that they had on their T-shirts and they were called to the office and punished for repeating what the other seniors shirts said.

Fast forward to about a month ago and my son was leaving school, and pulled out in front of one of the students in the other group. He didn't know who it was until this person flipped him off and yelled obscenities at him. He just ignored it basically, until later the same week, the Sheriff came to the high school and served him with a Civil Protection Order. The statement given to the judge was completely false. In summary the statement said that my son tried to ram into this students car and they were in fear for their life because he has been bullying said student for 4 years or more. My son has never once been in trouble for bullying anyone. He has never once spoken to this student, and has never threatened or shown violence toward this student or anyone. This student however has a long history of bullying other students. We have a lot of evidence supporting this fact. The judge granted a CPO and since then my son has not been allowed to attend school, he will not be allowed to walk with his class during the graduation ceremony, he missed his senior prom, his senior picnic, and lost a couple scholarship offers because his GPA has suffered since all this started. Well we cannot afford an attorney so the court appointed one because my son is a juvenile. The appointed attorney has just been completely uninterested, we met a single time and she has not contacted any of our witnesses or updated us on the status of anything. Today we received a letter from the high school with a copy of a Subpoena ordering "Any and all records and incident reports", with my son as the perpetrator/respondent/suspect.", And "Any and all audio/video recordings depicting" my son going back 6 years. They are to be delivered to this other student who has the CPO against my son.

This sounds to me like it is a violation of my son's civil rights. I sent our court appointed attorney an email requesting the filing of a Protection Order to stop the release of all of these records. I would have no issue with the judge ordering the records pertaining to my son and this student's interactions, of which there are none. We are lost because we cannot afford an attorney, and we feel like the system is taking advantage of us. What are our rights as far as filing suit against this student and her family, for making false statements, defamation, harassment, and so on. We have a lot of evidence and witnesses to show that she has a history of bullying and harassing others. We feel violated and betrayed that the legal system is just handing over a juvenile's personal school records to another child.

There is a lot more to the story and how the whole thing started. Basically it boils down to how the school started punishing these students for giving their opinion on Twitter and Facebook, about something they were witnessing at school that they felt inappropriate. Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Any advice on affordable legal help would be welcomed.

Thank you.