Florida University Fires Sandy Hook Truther Professor

By RICH SCINTO (Patch Staff)

Florida Atlantic University Professor James Tracy will officially be fired from the school on Jan. 8 after his conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting drew negative attention to the school.

Tracy was scheduled to teach three classes for the upcoming semester. Alternate professors will fill those slots, the university said in a statement. Tracy was issued a notice of proposed discipline on Dec. 16.

The Dec. 14, 2012 shooting left 20 children and six educators dead. Since then many parents of victims have had to deal with conspiracy theories being thrown in their faces. A New York man was recently arrested after he allegedly harassed the sister of victim Vicki Soto at a benefit race held in her honor.

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Lenny and Veronique Pozner, parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim Noah Pozner wrote an open letter urging the school to part ways with Tracy.

They wrote:

Tracy even sent us a certified letter demanding proof that Noah once lived, that we were his parents, and that we were the rightful owner of his photographic image. We found this so outrageous and unsettling that we filed a police report for harassment. Once Tracy realized we would not respond, he subjected us to ridicule and contempt on his blog, boasting to his readers that the “unfulfilled request” was “noteworthy” because we had used copyright claims to “thwart continued research of the Sandy Hook massacre event.”