Diversity, Equity, Inclusion materials (Duanesburg Central School District) • MuckRock

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From: Jackson Parker

03/05/2023

Subject: New York Freedom of Information Law Request: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion materials (Duanesburg Central School District)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the New York Freedom of Information Law, I hereby request the following records:

All materials and correspondence between the district Board of Education, district Administration, district Equity Committee or Office, Faculty, Staff, Third Party Contractors and Consultants related to the following terms, subjects or concepts between April 2021 to the date this request is fulfilled:

Race
Anti-racism
Racism
Equity
Culturally Responsive
Decolonize
Diversity
Implicit Bias
Intersectionality
Microaggression
Oppression
Patriarchy
People of Color
Privilege(d)
Safe Space
Social Justice
Tokenism
White Supremacy

This request shall also include any teachings of such curriculum mentioned above by any faculty employed within the school district, third party contractors, consultants or other third parties invited by the school or agents of the school.

This request shall also include any documents or materials accessed by the school district, but stored on third party service providers on behalf of the district, and links/references/credentials for access to such materials if present in emails or electronic systems or files stored in browser caches, cloud storage (i.e. Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc), or local hard drives managed by the district. This request shall also include non-school email and texting services used by the district, board, administration and faculty to conduct activities and business related to the school district (i.e. Gmail, Outlook, etc).

This request shall also include any training material or supplemental information provided to district staff, whether required or suggested.

Please keep in mind, pursuant to the Retention and Disposition Schedule for New York Local Government Records (LGS-01): Any record listed in the LGS-01 Schedule for which a Freedom of Information (FOIL) request has been received should not be destroyed until that request has been answered and until any potential appeal is made and resolved, even if the retention period of the record has passed.

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 5 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Jackson Parker

From: Duanesburg Central School District

03/10/2023

Subject: Re: New York Freedom of Information Law Request: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion materials (Duanesburg Central School District)

"We are in receipt of your request for information, received by this office on March 6, 2023 as it is a request for documents and/or records, I am considering it made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (“FOIL”).

We will review the request and compiling the available information you are requesting. I will respond to your specific requests within twenty(20) business days.

Record Access Officer

Jeffrey Rivenburg"

From: Muckrock Staff

03/27/2023

Subject: RE: New York Freedom of Information Law Request: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion materials (Duanesburg Central School District)

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following New York Freedom of Information Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 6, 2023. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.