On the morning of September 19, 2025, I texted my former pastor, Jeff Tauring of Liberty Valley Church, to ask whether his church had resources for abuse survivors. That afternoon he called the Summit County Sheriff's Office and said, "So we're starting to get threatening phone calls now." About half an hour later, on the deputy's body camera, he was asked what the threats were. He said, "I don't, I don't, I don't have any," and "I don't have a crime."
What happened
Liberty Valley Church was my church. On September 19, 2025, Pastor Tauring called the Sheriff's dispatcher about "threatening phone calls," and a deputy came out. On the body camera, he told the deputy the last contact was my text that morning asking about help for abuse survivors. He said he had never asked me to stop contacting him. Asked for the threats, he said he did not have any. The deputy told him, "I can't prove harassment." The report lists "Telecommunications Harassment" and "Criminal Trespass." I was told I was being trespassed from the church property. The case was closed that day with no arrest and no charge.
Two days later, on September 21, I volunteered at a public memorial vigil in Strongsville where he was a listed speaker. On September 22 a deputy was "dispatched… for a report on threats." That report states he said I "infiltrated the event and stalked both him and his wife." It records no threat, and it is coded "Civil." He was given information on how to get a protection order. I have found no protection order. I am preparing a falsification complaint, and I intend to ask the Summit County Sheriff and the Summit County Prosecutor to review these reports. No one has been charged.
At a glance: "threatening phone calls" on the call to dispatch · "I don't have any" threats on body camera about half an hour later · "I don't have a crime" · he never asked me to stop · a "report on threats" that records no threat and is coded "Civil" · a public vigil where I volunteered, described as "infiltrated" · a witness who was with me the whole time · no protection order · I am preparing a falsification complaint.
This page uses Summit County Sheriff's Office reports 2025-00066193 (9/19/2025) and 2025-00066997 (9/22/2025), the recorded call to dispatch on 9/19/2025, the deputy's body camera video from that day, my own audio recording from that afternoon, my text messages, the public invitation to the vigil, and a signed witness statement. The body camera clips below are short excerpts. Parts that include phone numbers or private family details are left out. I am not a lawyer. Whether any statement was false, and whether any law was broken, is for the Sheriff, the prosecutor or a court to decide.
The strongest issues
| Date | What happened | The record |
|---|---|---|
| September 19, 2025, 1:40 PM | "Threatening phone calls." On the call to dispatch, Pastor Tauring said, "So we're starting to get threatening phone calls now." About half an hour later, on the body camera, he said the last contact was a text that morning. Asked "What are the threats?" he said he did not have any. The one remark he could name, "we will destroy you," he said was "like a year ago." He then said, "I don't have a crime." | Dispatch recording, 9/19/25, 1:40 PM, at 1:59 to 2:04. Body camera, 9/19/25, at 7:13, 9:00 to 9:16 and 10:19 (clips 3, 4 and 5 below). My message thread with him: four messages in 13 months, all texts, and no "we will destroy you." |
| September 19, 2025 | A harassment report with no request to stop. The report lists "Telecommunications Harassment" and says the deputy was dispatched "in reference to a call for harassment." On camera, Pastor Tauring said he never asked me to stop, "because if you respond it escalates." The deputy answered that without a request to stop, "I can't prove harassment." When he described what I had said to him, the deputy said, "It's not illegal to say accusations." | Report 2025-00066193, reported 9/19/25 1:41 PM, closed 9/19/25 with no arrest or charge. Body camera at 4:36 to 4:57 and 8:24 to 8:55 (clips 2 and 4). The report itself records: "Tauring advised he never asked the member identified as Carey George to cease contact due to fear it would escalate issues…" |
| September 22, 2025 | A "report on threats" that records no threat. The second report opens, "I was dispatched… for a report on threats." The narrative describes no threat of any kind, and the offense is coded "Other, 101.00 Civil." Three days earlier, on camera, he had said he had no threats and no crime. | Report 2025-00066997, reported 9/22/25 2:54 PM. Body camera, 9/19/25, at 9:00 and 10:19. |
| September 21 to 22, 2025 | "Infiltrated the event and stalked." The report states he said I "infiltrated the event and stalked both him and his wife." The event was a public memorial vigil at the Strongsville Commons clock tower. The organizers' invitation, posted September 16, listed "Pastor Jeff Tauring, Liberty Valley Church" and asked people to "encourage friends and neighbors to attend." I was asked to volunteer, and I learned he would be speaking from the flyer after I arrived. A friend who was with me the whole evening signed a statement. | Report 2025-00066997. Strongsville GOP invitation, posted 9/16/25. Signed witness statement, 1/19/26: "At no time did I observe any inappropriate, disruptive, or concerning behavior by Carey George toward the Pastor nor his wife." No protection order was filed. |
On the body camera
These are short clips from the deputy's body camera at the church on September 19, 2025. The video starts at 2:13 PM. The camera was inside the cruiser, so the picture shows the dashboard and the audio carries the conversation. I am not in these clips. I arrived later, at about 2:26 PM.
The deputy asks about a man who had been parked at the end of the church driveway weeks earlier. The deputy had checked on him: "he wasn't doing anything illegal, he was just sitting there." Pastor Tauring says he wants to know "if it's linked with another person who is harassing us," and describes me. He says "somehow she got a hold of the personal phones of a few of my ministers." The deputy asks, "So you believe that the guy that was a private eye has something to do with…?" Pastor Tauring: "No, I, I don't believe that. I don't know."
Pastor Tauring: "It's been happening for a year but we just let it go. She's just a crazy ex-wife, you know." He says I am "calling my ministers and threatening." Told that the ministers would have to file their own report, he says, "I am one of them." Asked what I said to him: "She said that you guys are abusers and you're protecting abused children and that you are abusers yourself." The deputy: "Okay, that's not, that's not harassing or threats… It's not illegal to say accusations." Asked what I had done on Facebook: "Same stuff."
The deputy: "When's the last time she reached out to you?" Pastor Tauring: "This morning." The deputy: "What'd she say to you this morning?" Pastor Tauring: "She said, do you guys have help for abuse survivors?" He confirms it was a text: "She texted me that." Then: "I don't know how she gets our cell phone numbers, but she did."
The deputy: "Has she made any threats to anybody?" Pastor Tauring: "I don't, I don't even have them." Asked whether he ever told me to stop: "No, I don't, because if you respond it escalates." The deputy: "If you haven't asked her to stop texting you, then that kind of defeats the purpose. I can't prove harassment." The deputy: "What are the threats?" Pastor Tauring: "I don't, I don't, I don't have any." He says I once said "we will destroy you," and that it was "like a year ago."
Pastor Tauring: "I don't have a crime. I'm just letting you know what's going on." The deputy: "I understand."
Other issues
- "A few of my ministers." The only message to a church member I have found is a one-line question to a member who leads a Bible study. Our thread had started nine months earlier with a friendly exchange. On camera, when I was there, I said, "You're the only person I texted."
- The parked car. On the call to dispatch he connected the call to "a previous incident… about a suspicious car." On camera, the deputy who had checked that car said it was a man "just sitting there," "facing the road," and "he wasn't being suspicious." Asked if he believed the car was linked to me, Pastor Tauring said, "I don't believe that. I don't know."
- Facebook. The report says I was "posting remarks on facebook trying to damage the church's reputation." Asked on camera what I had posted, he described accusations, and the deputy said that is not illegal.
- After I left. I came to the church while the deputy was there, asked questions, was told to leave, and left. The deputy told me, "Okay ma'am, have a good day. Drive safe." After I left, Pastor Tauring told the deputy, "She cannot control herself." The deputy noted, "there's no TPO in effect."
- "You have to be told." I recorded the conversation when I arrived. The deputy told me he was there "on behalf of the church" and asked me, "going forward from today," not to contact the pastor, the church or its members. He explained, "The way harassment works is you have to be told," and then, "So I'm telling you." On my recording I said, "I came to stop by to see if you had any resources." On camera, Pastor Tauring had told the deputy he never asked me to stop.
- No protection order. On September 22 he was "provided information on how to obtain a protection order." I have found none. That is the place where these statements would have been tested under oath.
In fairness
- A church can tell anyone not to come onto its property. I am not challenging the trespass notice on this page.
- He did not ask for charges. On camera he said, "I'm just letting you know what's going on."
- Some of what he told the deputy was accurate. I did text him that morning, and I did text one church member.
- His worry about the parked car came at a time of church shootings in the news, and the deputy said he understood that concern.
- At the vigil I said hello to his wife. She told me to get away from her. That was our only exchange.
- I have not filed a complaint yet. I am preparing one. No one has been charged, and the Sheriff and the prosecutor have not made any finding.
Ohio laws and rules that may apply
For authorities to review. I am not a lawyer, and I am not saying he broke any of these laws. Each row links to the official text and names the documented fact it relates to. Whether any of them applies is for the Sheriff, the prosecutor or a court to decide.
| The law | In plain words | The documented fact it relates to |
|---|---|---|
| R.C. 2921.13(A)(3) Falsification | It is a crime to knowingly make a false statement to mislead a public official, such as a dispatcher or a deputy, in doing their job. | On the call to dispatch he said, "we're starting to get threatening phone calls now." On camera about half an hour later he said, "I don't have any," and "I don't have a crime." This raises the question of whether the statement to dispatch was accurate. |
| R.C. 2921.13(E) Contradictory statements | When a person makes two statements about the same fact that cannot both be true, a prosecutor does not have to prove which one was false, only that one of them was. | "Threatening phone calls" to dispatch at 1:40 PM, and "I don't, I don't, I don't have any" on camera the same afternoon. |
| R.C. 2917.32(A)(3) Making false alarms | It is a crime to report an offense or incident to law enforcement while knowing it did not happen. | The 9/19/25 call reported threats, and the 9/22/25 report opens "for a report on threats" but records no threat and is coded "Civil." This raises the question of whether the threats that were reported happened. |
| R.C. 2917.21(A)(5) Telecommunications harassment | One form of this crime is calling or texting someone after they, or someone at that place, have told you to stop. Another is calling or texting with the purpose to harass, threaten or abuse. | The 9/19/25 report lists "Telecommunications Harassment." On camera he said he never asked me to stop. My text that morning asked about resources for abuse survivors. The deputy said, "I can't prove harassment," and later told me, "you have to be told." This raises the question of whether the report's offense label had a basis. |
| R.C. 2903.211 Menacing by stalking | Stalking requires "a pattern of conduct," meaning "two or more actions or incidents closely related in time." | "Stalked both him and his wife" at one public event where I volunteered. A witness who was with me signed a statement that she saw nothing inappropriate. |
| R.C. 2911.21 Criminal trespass | A person can be charged for entering or staying on someone else's property after the owner, or someone acting for the owner, tells them not to. The law is about the property. It does not mention calls, texts or speech elsewhere. | On 9/19/25 the deputy gave me the church's trespass notice. He also asked me, on the church's behalf, not to contact the pastor or members. That request was not a court order, and no protection order was ever sought. |
| R.C. 2151.421(A)(4) Clergy reporting duty | Ohio requires a cleric acting in an official capacity who knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, that another cleric or church leader has abused or neglected a child to report it right away to children services or the police. | On camera he told the deputy I had accused the church of "protecting abused children." The records I have do not show what, if anything, he was told about a specific child. This raises the question of whether my concerns were ever looked at under this duty. |
| R.C. 2307.60(A)(1) Civil damages for a criminal act | Anyone injured in person or property by a criminal act may sue for damages in a civil court. | Two Sheriff's reports name me, and I was trespassed from the church. This may apply only if a court finds that a criminal act caused harm. |
What I'm asking for
- I intend to ask the Sheriff and the Summit County Prosecutor to review these reports with the dispatch recording and the body camera video, and to tell me in writing what they decide.
- That the record of report 2025-00066997 note that it describes no threat, and that the body camera from September 19 be read with it.
- A correction from Pastor Tauring of what was said about me to law enforcement.
Sources
- Summit County Sheriff's Office Case Report 2025-00066193, reported 9/19/2025 1:41 PM, Deputy Savnik.
- Summit County Sheriff's Office Case Report 2025-00066997, reported 9/22/2025 2:54 PM, Deputy Kalapodis.
- Recorded call to Sheriff's dispatch, 9/19/2025, 1:40 PM (2 min 38 s), and the recorded call about the parked car, 8/22/2025 (37 s). The Summit Emergency Communications Center provided both to me on 9/22/2025 and 9/25/2025 in response to my records request.
- Deputy's body camera video, 9/19/2025, starting 2:13 PM (19 min 40 s). Five excerpts are published above. I obtained it through a public records request to the Summit County Sheriff's Office, which released it on 10/15/2025.
- My own audio recording at the church, 9/19/2025, starting 2:27 PM (3 min 28 s).
- My text message thread with Pastor Tauring, 8/25/2024 to 9/19/2025.
- Strongsville GOP invitation to the 9/21/2025 memorial vigil, posted 9/16/2025.
- Signed witness statement, 1/19/2026.
- Ohio Revised Code sections 2151.421, 2307.60, 2903.211, 2911.21, 2917.21, 2917.32 and 2921.13, as published on codes.ohio.gov, October 2026 (linked in the table above).
Names of church members, the witness, my family, addresses and phone numbers are left out. Parts of the body camera and dispatch recording with phone numbers, addresses or private family details are not published. Full copies are kept for counsel and the appropriate authorities.