ChatGPT (Colorado Department of Education)
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| Multi Request | ChatGPT |
| Submitted | Feb. 17, 2023 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Jason Koebler
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Colorado Open Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
Public reports show that ChatGPT is a major topic of conversation at American public schools: https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2023/02/15/students-at-cape-coral-high-school-accused-of-using-artificial-intelligence-to-cheat-on-essay/amp/
Therefore, I hereby request the following records:
1) All instructional materials, presentations and presentation materials related to ChatGPT. This includes A) any notes taken during meetings that discussed ChatGPT and B) Any other documents related to ChatGPT including internal documentation, public relations materials, and executive summaries.
2) Any memos or communications sent to schools, administrators, teachers, parents, or students that mention "ChatGPT."
3) Any case studies, enforcement actions, contracts, or other documents mentioning ChatGPT
4) Any academic dishonesty policies that mention ChatGPT
5) To the extent possible, any emails and associated attachments that mention ChatGPT
To help limit the extent of the responsive documents, please limit search from Jan 1, 2023 through the time this request is processed. Please deliver these documents on a rolling basis as responsive documents are found. You can treat #5 (emails) as a separate request because I suspect there will be many more responsive documents there.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes. It will be used in the course of reporting for Motherboard, VICE's science and tech site (www.motherboard.vice.com).
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Jason Koebler
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Colorado Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 21, 2023. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Colorado Department of Education
Hello,
CDE is in receipt of your Colorado Open Records Act request for records related to ChatGPT and we are currently working to provide you with the responsive records. To ensure a thorough and exhaustive search of potentially responsive records is conducted, CDE hereby notifies you, that per C.R.S.§ 24-72-203(3)(b), we require an additional seven working days to respond to your request.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thank you,
Caitlin Dean
Marketing and Communications Specialist II
Communications Division
P 303.928.9474
201 E. Colfax, Denver, CO 80203
Dean_c@cde.state.co.us | www.cde.state.co.us
Email cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, email cannot be used to transfer files containing personally identifiable information of educators or students. Contact the intended recipient to mutually determine enhanced security options for transferring such information.
From: Colorado Department of Education
Dear Mr. Koebler,
We have received your Colorado Open Records Act request below. The Colorado Department of Education has not engaged in work related to ChatGBT. In Colorado, local school districts have control over their curriculum including instructional resources. As such, we don’t have responsive documents for much of your request.
1) All instructional materials, presentations and presentation materials related to ChatGPT. This includes A) any notes taken during meetings that discussed ChatGPT and B) Any other documents related to ChatGPT including internal documentation, public relations materials, and executive summaries. - We have no responsive documents.
2) Any memos or communications sent to schools, administrators, teachers, parents, or students that mention "ChatGPT." - We have no responsive documents.
3) Any case studies, enforcement actions, contracts, or other documents mentioning ChatGPT. - We have no responsive documents.
4) Any academic dishonesty policies that mention ChatGPT. - These policies are under the authority of local school districts. We have no responsive documents.
5) To the extent possible, any emails and associated attachments that mention ChatGPT. - A quick email search turned up over 4,000 emails that mention "ChatGPT" -- the vast majority of these emails are news articles, newsletters or marketing solicitations that come to multiple people in the department. it will take us approximately four hours to review these emails briefly before providing them to you. The CORA statute allows us to recover fees for time spent processing requests after the first hour. We anticipate the cost to you for this could be up to $90. If you agree to this expense, we will begin reviewing the emails and send you an invoice for the actual time incurred to review the emails.
Thank you,
Caitlin Dean
Marketing and Communications Specialist II
Communications Division
P 303.928.9474
201 E. Colfax, Denver, CO 80203
Dean_c@cde.state.co.us | www.cde.state.co.us
Email cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, email cannot be used to transfer files containing personally identifiable information of educators or students. Contact the intended recipient to mutually determine enhanced security options for transferring such information.
