A former New Jersey high school yearbook adviser who was blamed for censoring a student’s Donald Trump campaign shirt says she was ordered to do so by the school, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

What’s more, Susan Parsons claims she voted for Trump herself and was forced to stay silent about what happened because of a school policy that prohibited her from talking to news reporters without district permission, the suit claims.

Parsons, who still works for the district, lost her position as the yearbook adviser and says she was subjected to death threats and harassment because of a false narrative fed to the media by officials in Wall Township School District in 2017.

“What happened to her is really just egregious,” said her attorney, Christopher J. Eibeler.

The district did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The suit comes two years after Parsons was blamed for a controversy that made national headlines and drew attention from President Trump himself. Changes to the yearbook drew the ire of both students and parents in Wall, a Monmouth County town where Trump carried nearly 63 percent of the vote in the presidential election.

Parsons claims the district routinely forced her to edit yearbook photos to alter anything that could be controversial, from words on T-shirts to hand gestures to students not wearing shirts on a school trip. Her lawsuit says she was specifically told to edit a student’s navy blue “TRUMP Make America Great Again” shirt in the 2017 edition, the school year during which Trump took office.

“That has to go," the suit claims Parsons was told by a school secretary who had final say over the pages as a proxy for the principal.

Parsons, a veteran teacher, claims she regularly complained about being forced to alter photos, saying the “yearbook should reflect reality.”

When the censorship story went viral, Parsons answered a phone call from a New York Post reporter and was quoted as saying “We have never made any action against any political party." The district then reminded her that all interviews must be approved by the superintendent, effectively trampling her First Amendment rights, the suit contends.

A woman at Parson’s Wall Township home declined to comment when NJ Advance Media attempted to interview her in 2017.

The lawsuit claims Parsons received hate mail and threatening phone calls and voicemails. The situation grew so hostile that the township assigned a police officer to monitor Parsons’ home, the suit says.

Parsons also received negative reviews of her personal swim business because of the incident and now avoids going out in public in Wall Township for fear of being recognized and harassed, the suit claims.

She’s seeking damages and asking that the district policy that prevented her from telling her story in the media be struck down as unconstitutional, Eibeler said.

Nothing in the high school’s dress code would prevent a student from expressing political views and support for a candidate through appropriate clothing, Superintendent Cheryl Dyer said in 2017. The high school administration was not aware of and does not condone censorship of political views, she said at the time.

While one student’s photo was intentionally altered to remove a pro-Trump image, Dyer said that another photo that appeared to be censored was not. That photo was re-sized in the same manner as all other photos, and Trump’s name was no longer visible on a student’s vest because of the resizing, she said then.

The lawsuit claims that another student’s Trump quote that was supposed to appear in the yearbook was accidentally omitted by a student.

Adam Clark may be reached at adam_clark@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @realAdamClark. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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