From the Detroit News...

When Terry White decided to home-school his seventh-grade son, Grosse Ile police charged White with criminal truancy and twice used warrants to search his home.

Now White, a retired Pontiac police officer, is suing the police chief and the officers, alleging malicious prosecution, unlawful entry and unlawful arrest....

White's son, who is now 14 and attending school in another district, was suspended from Grosse Ile schools Nov. 9, 2004, over a note he wrote that was read by another student, said White's lawyer, Fred Gibson of Clinton Township....

White began home-schooling his son while appealing the boy's suspension when police charged him with truancy -- a criminal misdemeanor -- on Feb. 18, 2005, the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit alleges that authorities were required to apply to the state superintendent of schools before taking such an action but did not do so.

While White was at court successfully having the case dismissed, his son said a Grosse Ile officer had entered his home without permission and was trying to question him, the lawsuit alleges.

Shortly after the court dismissed the truancy case, police arrived with a warrant seeking books and other items used for home-schooling, the complaint says.

Officers later arrived with a second warrant seeking a police jacket, keys and a police hat, items one of the officers had left during the first search, the lawsuit alleges.

Ian Slatter, a spokesman for the Home School Legal Defense Association, said all states have some form of truancy law but participating in home-schooling is an automatic defense to truancy charges.

Sounds like there's a lot more to the story, but for some reason the reporter of the people involved didn't want to explain further.