Mom who swore at meeting not guilty of disorderly conduct
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A mother of two who swore at a Pennsylvania school board has been found not guilty of disorderly conduct.
Forty-one-year-old Johanna Boratko appealed her conviction by a district judge stemming from a Greater Johnstown School Board meeting in March. She acknowledges using the f-word because she was upset about what she felt was a lack of action about bullying.
Her attorney, Timothy Burns, says her language was inappropriate but not illegal. And on Friday, a Cambria County judge who heard her appeal earlier this month agreed.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The judge found it couldn't be proved that Boratko intended to cause "inconvenience, annoyance or alarm." The judge also says using the f-word isn't "obscene" under the statute unless it's used in a sexual context.
The school district didn't immediately comment.