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Hello,

Your request was submitted after business hours and received on July 22, 2022. The Open Records Office is in receipt of your request and is currently processing it. We will be providing a response to you within three business days as required by the Georgia Open Records Act. See OCGA § 50-18-71(b)(1)(A).

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Open Records Office
Cobb County School District
514 Glover Street | Marietta, GA 30060
Phone 770-514-3870 | Fax 678-594-7778
openrecords@cobbk12.org<mailto:openrecords@cobbk12.org>

This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized dissemination, distribution or copying of any information from this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by collect telephone call at (770-514-3870) or electronic mail (e-mail).
Initial responses to open records requests and any applicable exemptions are based upon general knowledge of documentation types and the relationship of the requestor to the record(s). Noted exemptions may or may not be applicable to the records upon production. Additional exemption may also be identified upon the actual review of the records if they were not available at the time of the response. The final list of redactions that apply to any record produced will be identified in the final response in accordance with O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(b). To the extent that the open records request is related to any pending litigation matters involving the school district, please be advised the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(e), requires that you send a copy of your request to counsel for the school district: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, 1075 Peachtree Stree NE, Suite 1500, Atlanta, GA 30309.

Hello,

The Cobb County School District's Open Records Office is responding to your email submitted under the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50- 18-70 et. seq. Your request is included in the email chain below. Of those records that can be produced, the records first must be redacted of confidential information. See, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(b). Redaction is anticipated to include the following:

* Social Security numbers, insurance, financial, or medical information, and dates of birth. Additionally, home addresses and home telephone numbers, personal mobile or wireless telephone number of teachers and employees of public schools, as well as their family members, are redacted pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(a)(20)(21).

There is a cost associated with the production of these records. The district charges for the production of records at the hourly salary of the lowest-paid full-time employee who has the necessary skill and training to search for, retrieve, copy, review, and redact the documents, less the first quarter hour. See O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(c)(1). The labor time for the production of these records is estimated to be 1.25 hours. Additionally, the district charges $.10 per page or $1.00 per CD-ROM or $2.00 per USB Flash Drive as provided in O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(c)(2). Therefore, the total cost to produce these records is priced below for the formats available.

Total Production Time - 1.25 Hours
Paper Copy
Not Available
CD-ROM
$40.73
USB Flash Drive
$41.73
**Please add $6.80 for USPS Certified Mail if you are not available pick up the records in person**

Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(d), the district is providing you a cost estimate to produce these records and will defer retrieval of the records until such time as you agree in writing to pay the estimated cost for the district to produce the records. Please let me know if you wish for the district to proceed and in which format you would like to receive your records, or if you wish to revise your request, or withdraw your request. If no response is received within thirty (30) days, the District will consider the request withdrawn and the cost estimate null and void. Should you decide to proceed, payment can be submitted in cash (exact change only), certified check or money order made payable to Cobb County School District. You may respond by email to openrecords@cobbk12.org<mailto:openrecords@cobbk12.org>.

Thank you,

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Open Records Office
Cobb County School District
514 Glover Street | Marietta, GA 30060
Phone 770-514-3870 | Fax 678-594-7778
openrecords@cobbk12.org<mailto:openrecords@cobbk12.org>

This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized dissemination, distribution or copying of any information from this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by collect telephone call at (770-514-3870) or electronic mail (e-mail).
Initial responses to open records requests and any applicable exemptions are based upon general knowledge of documentation types and the relationship of the requestor to the record(s). Noted exemptions may or may not be applicable to the records upon production. Additional exemption may also be identified upon the actual review of the records if they were not available at the time of the response. The final list of redactions that apply to any record produced will be identified in the final response in accordance with O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(b). To the extent that the open records request is related to any pending litigation matters involving the school district, please be advised the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(e), requires that you send a copy of your request to counsel for the school district: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, 1075 Peachtree Stree NE, Suite 1500, Atlanta, GA 30309.