Florida Atlantic University is trying to fire James Tracy, a controversial professor whose conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook massacre and other tragedies brought the school unwanted publicity. 
 
 An FAU administrator gave Tracy a letter Wednesday saying he was being recommended for termination. He has 10 days to file an appeal, “after which final action may be taken,” a university statement said. 
 
 FAU officials wouldn’t give the exact reason, saying it’s the school's policy not to comment on personnel matters. But the decision comes less than a week after a public feud between Tracy and the parents of a boy who died at Sandy Hook. 
 
 Tracy, who couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday, first received notoriety in early 2013, after he wrote on his private blog, Memory Hole, that the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Conn., was likely staged. At the time, he received a reprimand because the university said he failed to make it clear his views didn’t represent those of the university. 
 
 Since then, Tracy claimed that almost every mass shooting or attack in the United States has been a hoax, including ones at the Boston Marathon, the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., and the recent shooting in San Bernadino, Calif. 
 
 An FAU administrator said in 2013 that Tracy’s actions resulted in a number of negative consequences for the school. But officials determined at the time that he couldn’t be fired for views he expressed on his own private blog and mostly ignored his posts. 
 
 However, the issue heated up again last week, when Veronique and Lenny Pozner, whose son, Noah, died at Sandy Hook, wrote an editorial in the Sun Sentinel accusing Tracy of taunting them. 
 
 “Tracy is among those who have personally sought to cause our family pain and anguish by publicly demonizing our attempts to keep cherished photos of our slain son from falling into the hands of conspiracy theorists,” they wrote in the Dec. 10 opinion piece. 
 
 They said he even sent them a certified letter demanding proof that Noah once lived, that they were his parents and owned the rights to the photo. 
 
 “We found this so outrageous and unsettling that we filed a police report for harassment,” they wrote. “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.’ 
 
 Tracy lashed back, with comments that were posted on a "Sandy Hook Hoax" Facebook page. 
 
 “The local conspirators in Newtown, such as the alleged parents of the murdered children, including Lenny and Veronique Pozner, have made out very well financially, soliciting contributions from generous yet misinformed Americans, where the families have averaged more than $1 million apiece." 
 
 “The only proof Lenny has produced that Noah died in Sandy Hook is a death certificate he provided to one of the book’s contributors, which has been revealed as a fabrication,” according to the comments attributed to Tracy. “If Noah actually died, there would have been no reason to fake it.” 
 
 Lenny Pozner issued a brief statement Tuesday night. "Veronique and I are relieved that truth and honor prevailed," he said. 
 
 Here is the statement from FAU: 
 
 December 16, 2015 
 
 In light of numerous requests from media outlets and the public, the University makes the following statement: 
 
 Today, James Tracy, an associate professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, was served a Notice of Proposed Discipline — Termination by the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Florida Atlantic University. 
 
 In accordance with the University’s Collective Bargaining Agreement with the United Faculty of Florida union, by which the University and James Tracy are bound, faculty who receive such notice are afforded a grievance process. James Tracy has 10 days to respond to the notice after which final action may be taken. 
 
 In accordance with university practice regarding personnel issues, the university will make no further comment for the time being. 
 
 stravis@sunsentinel.com or 561-243-6637 ||||| It’s been three years since we last embraced our precious little boy, Noah. At six-years-old, he was the youngest child murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. While our family may have managed to live through this tragedy, the passage of time has nowhere near dimmed the vivid memory of that day nor made it any less difficult for us to cope with the pain and anguish of losing our only son. 
 
 The heartache of burying a child is a sorrow we would not wish upon anyone. Yet to our horror, we have found that there are some in this society who lack empathy for the suffering of others. Among them are the conspiracy theorists that deny our tragedy was real. They seek us out and accuse us of being government agents who are faking our grief and lying about our loss. 
 
 Each new high-profile act of violence inspires more conspiracies and creates new victims of harassment and defamation, whether it be the Boston Bombing, the terrorist attacks in Paris or the most recent massacre in San Bernardino, CA. In that instance, a lawyer for the family of the shooters said Sandy Hook did not happen. And don't get us started on Donald Trump and his rantings on the Alex Jones radio show. It is obvious by the demographics of the show's audience that Trump appeared as a guest looking for votes from the conspiracy crowd. 
 
 Although many of these tormentors persecute us behind anonymous online identities, some do so openly and even proffer their professional credentials in an attempt to lend credence to their allegations. In this piece we want to focus on someone who is chief among the conspiracy theorists -- Florida Atlantic University Professor James Tracy. 
 
 A plethora of conspiracies arose after Sandy Hook, but none received as much mainstream publicity as Tracy, who suggested that the shooting never occurred and the Obama administration had staged the “event” to prepare the country for strict gun control measures. 
 
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 More than 800 news organizations covered the story of his denial. As a result, this professor achieved fame among the morbid and deranged precisely because his theories were attached to his academic credentials and his affiliation with FAU. Tracy has enjoyed tremendous success from this exposure and has since leveraged it into a popular Internet blog and radio program. Worse yet, it has elevated his status and fame among the degenerates that revel in the pleasure of sadistically torturing victims’ families. 
 
 It cannot be denied that Tracy has carved out a significant presence in the same Sandy Hook “hoax” conspiracy movement that has inspired a wave of harassment, intimidation and criminal activity against our family and others. 
 
 In fact, Tracy is among those who have personally sought to cause our family pain and anguish by publicly demonizing our attempts to keep cherished photos of our slain son from falling into the hands of conspiracy theorists. 
 
 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.” 
 
 His blog post was echoed dozens of times on conspiracy websites, including one maintained by Tracy’s colleague and frequent collaborator James Fetzer, a Holocaust denier who expounded upon Tracy’s article by stating that our refusal to respond to this obscene ultimatum “implies that Noah did not die at Sandy Hook and confirms that Lenny is a fraud.” 
 
 Although FAU issued a “reprimand” to Tracy for the irresponsible and insensitive comments he made in late 2012, he has shown no remorse and continues to conceive conspiracy theories out of each new mass shooting. While Tracy may now limit mention of his association with FAU, it has not gone unnoticed by the press. 
 
 After Tracy spouted yet another ridiculous theory concerning the Washington Navy Yard shooting of 2013, Education Editor Eric Owens of the Daily Caller cited the professor in declaring that “Florida Atlantic University remains and apparently always will be the worst place in America to go to college.” 
 
 When do the interests of the college and its students take precedence over the tenure of a professor who has clearly proven himself in violation of the university’s own policy? The FAU Academic Affairs Faculty Handbook clearly states that “A faculty member's activities which fall outside the scope of employment shall constitute misconduct only if such activities adversely affect the legitimate interests of the University,” 
 
 In an April 2013 Huffington Post article, Heather Coltman, interim dean of the College of Arts and Letters, clearly states that “Tracy's earlier posting has resulted in a number of negative consequences for FAU, including a large number of parents who withdrew their children's applications to FAU, a student whose parent asked that she be withdrawn from his class and a donor who withdrew his support to the Department of History.” 
 
 It matters not if Tracy simply refrains from mentioning FAU when defaming murdered Americans and their families. There is ample evidence to demonstrate that his extracurricular misconduct has already adversely affected FAU’s reputation and will continue doing so as long as he continues down this path. 
 
 It is time FAU reassess if their priorities properly reflect the best interests of their staff, donors and — most importantly — their students. “The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, but the Constitution does not guarantee that you can't be fired for expressing your beliefs as part of your job,” says the National Education Association. “The courts could decide either way and the burden of proof shifts sharply to the professor.” 
 
 FAU has a civic responsibility to ensure that it does not contribute to the ongoing persecution of the countless Americans who’ve lost their loved ones to high-profile acts of violence. 
 
 Veronique and Lenny Pozner are the parents of Noah Pozner, one of the 20 children killed in the December 14. 2012, Sandy Hook massacre. Lenny founded the HONR Network, aimed at combating conspiracy theorists on mass shootings. ||||| On March 22, 2015 an individual identifying himself as Lenny Pozner of HONR Network filed a copyright infringement claim under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act with Memory Hole Blog Internet Service Provider for MHB’s January 2, 2015 reproduction of an image of his alleged son, Noah Pozner, who according to official reports was killed in the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The image in question appeared in the aftermath of the December 16, 2014 Peshawar Pakistan school massacre and was widely circulated via a BBC news report. 
 
 Upon notification of this complaint by MHB’s ISP James Tracy issued a request to Pozner on March 30 for evidence to further corroborate Pozner’s identity, his relationship to Noah Pozner, and his actual ownership of the image in question. As of May 3 Pozner has yet to respond with any materials that would warrant his infringement claim. Proof of Pozner’s receipt of the request and the text of Tracy’s March 30 correspondence is reproduced below. 
 
 The unfulfilled request for documentation is noteworthy because Pozner has successfully used DMCA infringement claims to silence numerous alternative media outlets in an effort to thwart continued research of the Sandy Hook massacre event. 
 
 (On April 2, 2015 Pozner’s “Agent” signed for the USPS certified letter.) 
 
 James F. Tracy 
 
 __________________ 
 
 Boca Raton, Florida 
 
 March 30, 2015 
 
 Lenny Pozner 
 
 HONR Network 
 
 261 South Main Street 
 
 Newtown, Connecticut 06470 
 
 SENT CERTIFIED MAIL / RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED: 7014 2870 0000 1783 3476 
 
 Dear Lenny Pozner 
 
 I am in receipt of electronic notification as of March 26, 2015 via my internet service provider Automattic concerning an alleged copyright infringement complaint under [512(c) of the Digital Milleneum Copyright Act filed by you on March 22, 2015 for an image purportedly owned by you and used alongside commentary and analysis in the following post that appears on Memory Hole Blog: 
 
 http://memoryholeblog.com/2015/01/02/sandy-hooks-noah-pozner-dead-in-december-16-taliban-attack/ 
 
 The specific image may be found here: 
 
 //memoryholeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/10294416_1502435086711956_1944269884875084540_n.jpg 
 
 As proof of your alleged ownership of the image in question, you have provided the following url: 
 
 https://plus.google.com/+LennyPozner/posts/USxuWoFLrgM?pid=6029810745667744610&oid=115591728871200254551 
 
 As you know, in addition to its broad circulation following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre event on December 14, 2012, this image was published by British Broadcasting Corporation and received similar worldwide circulation following the December 16, 2014 Taliban attack on the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar Pakistan. 
 
 You have provided your electronic signature under penalty of perjury that you are the copyright holder of the above referenced image and have accordingly requested that it be removed from Memory Hole Blog. 
 
 I have voluntarily removed the image in question on March 30, 2015. However, given that numerous similar copyright complaints made by you against parties that have publicly questioned and analyzed the Sandy Hook massacre event, I have reason to doubt the good faith nature of your March 22, 2015 DMCA copyright infringement claim. An action with such potential weight to stifle free speech needs the utmost scrutiny. I am therefore requesting written evidence of the following from you: 
 
 1. Proof of your identity via copy of a government-issued document, such as a state driver’s license or passport. 
 
 2. Proof of your relationship to the deceased party, Noah Pozner, whose alleged photograph appears in the image in question referenced above. 
 
 3. Proof of your ownership of said image via a signed and notarized statement from a qualified and licensed forensic expert substantiating your legal ownership of said image, including the date and time of the image’s capture. 
 
 Please send the above information via regular mail to myself and Automattic no later than 10 business days from your receipt of this correspondence. Automattic’s mailing address 
 
 132 Hawthorne Street 
 
 San Francisco, CA 94107 
 
 Thank you for your attention to the above. 
 
 Sincerely, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 James F. Tracy 
 
 Like this: Like Loading... ||||| BOCA RATON, Fla. – A Florida Atlantic University professor is in the process of getting fired after allegedly harassing the family of a child who died in the Sandy Hook massacre by claiming he never existed. 
 
 James Tracy, Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, has brought negative attention to the University since 2013. He wrote on his private blog, Memory Hole, that the Sandy Hook massacre was staged. 
 
 FAU reprimanded him, but only because he didn’t make it clear that his conspiracy theory was separate from that of the University’s, according to the Sun Sentinel. He has since continued to claim that mass shootings such as those in Paris and San Bernardino were also faked on his blog. 
 
 Last Thursday, parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook massacre decided to speak out in an editorial on the Sun Sentinel. 
 
 Veronique and Lenny Pozner, whose son, Noah, died at Sandy Hook said Tracy was harassing them, demanding evidence that Noah lived and that Veronique and Lenny were his parents. 
 
 The Pozners say that when they didn’t respond, Tracy “subjected us to ridicule and contempt … 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.’” 
 
 Tracy even went so far as to claim the parents made of well financially from the tragedy, “soliciting contributions from generous yet misinformed Americans, where the families have averaged more than $1 million apiece.” He also said that Noah’s death certificate was “revealed as a fabrication.” 
 
 The Pozners told the Sentinel he “personally sought to cause our family pain and anguish by publicly demonizing our attempts to keep cherished photos of our slain son from falling into the hands of conspiracy theorists.” 
 
 On Wednesday, FAU recommended Tracy for termination. He has 10 days to file an appeal, and then a final action will be taken. The University did not comment further on their motives for Tracy’s termination. 
 
 The Pozners said they “are relieved that truth and honor prevailed.” ||||| Originally posted on The PPJ Gazette: 
 
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– A Florida Atlantic University professor has been making waves for years with his conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook massacre, and now the school is taking action. James Tracy has been claiming on his blog since 2013 that the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting was staged, and FAU has reprimanded him at least once, but ultimately determined he couldn't be fired for expressing his own views on a private blog. But, in the wake of a Sun-Sentinel op-ed by the parents of one Sandy Hook victim—who claim Tracy has been harassing them—FAU gave Tracy a letter Wednesday saying he's been recommended for termination, the Sun-Sentinel reports. Tracy has discussed victim Noah Pozner numerous times on his blog, and the feud apparently has to do with the Pozners filing a copyright infringement claim against him for publishing Noah's image on the blog. In the op-ed, Veronique and Lenny Pozner say that Tracy has "publicly demoniz[ed] our attempts to keep cherished photos of our slain son from falling into the hands of conspiracy theorists" and "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," after which they filed a police report for harassment. They called on FAU to do something about Tracy. He responded on a "Sandy Hook Hoax" Facebook page, claiming that the Pozners and other "alleged parents" of victims "have made out very well financially, soliciting contributions from generous yet misinformed Americans." He can respond to his termination recommendation within 10 days, "after which final action may be taken," per a university statement. Tracy has also claimed that other attacks, including ones in Paris and San Bernardino, were staged, PIX-11 reports. (Truthers hijacked the online reviews of a book by the mother of another Sandy Hook victim.)