A former vice president and member of the San Francisco School Board has filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the school district and five board members of violating her First Amendment rights in the form of silencing her free speech. Alison Collins is seeking $12 million in damages from the school district, along with $3 million in punitive damages from each of the five members who stripped her from her position as vice president and involvement in the committee, the lawsuit alleges, which was made public on Twitter by reporter Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler of Jewish news agency KQED. Last week, Collins was removed from her role as vice president in a 5–2 passing “no-confidence vote” after the board drafted a resolution seeking to strip her from her role over a series of “anti-Asian” tweets she posted in 2016. Collins alleges that the actions against her are in violation of her free …