A day after the announcement that the Warren County School District was being sued over its mask policy, the school board got to work setting up a meeting.

That special meeting will be held at 8 a.m. Friday. The purposes of the meeting expressed in a legal notice are: rescinding motions regarding masking, acting on the ARP ESSER Health and Safety Plan, and engaging legal counsel.

On Monday, a group of local parents, representing children in the district, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in Erie. The lawsuit asked for injunctive relief against a Sept. 13 decision by the school board to allow parents to circumvent the state-mandated mask requirements by filing an exemption form without any need for supporting medical documentation.

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Paradise Baxter granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday afternoon.

The “temporary restraining order will serve the public interest as well as the health, safety, and welfare of the school students in the school district,” she said.

The board is meeting virtually “due to Governor Wolf’s guidelines for districts, limited indoor capacity, and to best ensure the health, welfare, and safety of the public, board members, and district employees,” according to the notice.

The meeting agenda will be posted on the district website and in the lobbies of the district’s four high schools and central office on Thursday.

Anyone wishing to make public comment on agenda items or other matters may make that arrangement by contacting Board Secretary Ruth Huck by text to (814) 730-0900 or email to wcsdpubliccomment@wcsdpa.org be 5 p.m. Thursday. Those communications should include their name, email or phone (depending on how they plan to attend the meeting), and whether the comment is related to an agenda item or other issue. The intended comments should not be included in the email or text. “During the comment period, only those who have contacted the board secretary and provided the necessary information will be called upon to participate in public comment.”

Those who would like to attend the virtual meeting may do so by phone or Zoom. Details about how to log in are available at wcsdpa.org.