Emails on Denver Teachers Strike Feb. 10-15, 2019 (Denver Public Schools)
| Multi Request | Emails on Denver Teachers Strike Feb. 10-15, 2019 |
| Submitted | Feb. 20, 2019 |
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From: Mackenzie Farkus
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Colorado Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:
Any emails containing the keywords ‘Denver Teachers,' 'Denver Classroom Teachers Association,' or ‘strike’ from February 10-15, 2019.
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,
Mackenzie Farkus
From: Denver Public Schools
Please note that we do not have the capability to search all 15,000 employees emails. Please provide the individuals whose emails you would like searched. Thanks,
Sincerely,
Stacy Wheeler
CORA Officer
Denver Public Schools
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203
720-423-2038
If you have CORA questions or concerns, please email CORA@dpsk12.org
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From: Mackenzie Farkus
Hello Stacy,
To narrow down my request, I would like the emails of Susana Cordova, Lauren Dunn, Debbie Hearty, Anna Eljo, Mark Ferrandino, David Suppes, Allen Smith, Eldridge Greer, Jennifer Holladay, Ann Whalen, Michelle Berge, Veronica Figoli, Brette Scott, and Nicole T. Veltze.
If you need further clarification, please let me know.
Thanks,
Mackenzie Farkus
From: Denver Public Schools
We have reviewed your CORA request related to [Insert Request]. Staff have determined that retrieving and pdfing nearly 2,800 emails will take approximately 93-139 staff hours. We request that you pay the minimum estimated staff time prior to us beginning the retrieval. If fulfilling the request takes longer, we will request final payment prior to releasing the documents.
In accordance with the District CORA Policy<https://www.dpsk12.org/wp-content/uploads/Board-of-Education-Policy-KDB-CORA.pdf>, the first hour of staff time is free. There is a $30 charge for the additional 92 hours. Please pay $2,760 to Denver Public Schools.
Payment Options:
Online<https://financialservices.dpsk12.org/treasury/>: Select from drop down “Donations to CORA” (https://financialservices.dpsk12.org/treasury/)
Please send a copy of your payment receipt to CORA@dpsk12.org<mailto:CORA@dpsk12.org>.
Via mail:
- Make the check payable to Denver Public Schools, CORA request in the memo line
- Mail to Denver Public Schools C/O CORA payment 1860 Lincoln St 8th floor, Denver, CO 80203
Please let me know if you would like to narrow your request or have any questions.
Sincerely,
Stacy Wheeler
CORA Officer
Denver Public Schools
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203
720-423-2038
If you have CORA questions or concerns, please email CORA@dpsk12.org
From: Mackenzie Farkus
Hi Stacy,
As a member of the media (I work for MuckRock News and have been published in other publications), can I receive a fee waiver? Also,
are these emails only from the dates February 10-15, 2019?
Thanks,
Mackenzie Farkus
From: Denver Public Schools
We do not provide waivers unless the requestor can demonstrate hardship. If you believe you qualify for a hardship waiver please submit a document for us to review.
Yes, this is the number of emails from the parameters you submitted. Our technology team conducts the initial search to see how many emails then need to be pdfed and reviewed (as you can see from the estimate this would take me nearly 3 weeks’ worth of work to complete not working on anything else).
As you can imagine, the 14 leaders you selected had many emails during that time with the common phrases for that time period.
Sincerely,
Stacy Wheeler
CORA Officer
Denver Public Schools
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203
720-423-2038
If you have CORA questions or concerns, please email CORA@dpsk12.org
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~WRD000
From: Mackenzie Farkus
Hi Stacy,
Could you elaborate on the specific parameters for what constitutes as demonstrating hardship? I believe I may qualify but wanted to ask before sending anything over.
Thanks,
Mackenzie Farkus
From: Denver Public Schools
Please remember that tax payers fund what we do here, and we would need to explain to the tax payers why we waiver 93+ staff hours for your CORA request. Honestly we would never waive 93 hours of staff time. I may be able to waive you 5 hours or less.
We don’t have hard and fast definitions of hardships, but feel free to explain to us why you feel you deserve a waiver. But again, I am not going to waive 93 hours. I suggest you narrow your parameters.
Sincerely,
Stacy Wheeler
CORA Officer
Denver Public Schools
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203
720-423-2038
If you have CORA questions or concerns, please email CORA@dpsk12.org
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~WRD000
From: Mackenzie Farkus
Hello Stacy,
I would like to speak with a Denver Public Schools IT person about this issue. I want to confirm the amount of time (93-139 staff hours) needed to export emails into PDF format.
Thanks,
Mackenzie Farkus
From: Denver Public Schools
I am the person who does this work and I have been doing it for 3 years. I can tell you it will take that many hours to pdf nearly 2800 emails plus then review. Please not we don’t just turn over emails, we need to redact for personal information, review to see if the email contains student information, etc.
Sincerely,
Stacy Wheeler
CORA Officer
Denver Public Schools
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203
720-423-2038
If you have CORA questions or concerns, please email CORA@dpsk12.org
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~WRD000
From: Mackenzie Farkus
Hello Stacy,
I will be narrowing down my request to the emails of Susana Cordova, Lauren Dunn, Debbie Hearty, Anna Eljo, Mark Ferrandino, David Suppes, Eldridge Greer, Jennifer Holladay, and Michelle Berge. I also do not need any incoming emails received by personnel from news publishers or subscription service providers which they send (via blast emails) to persons who have signed up for or subscribed to these notices. I understand that redactions need to be made and I appreciate your help.
Please let me know if you need further clarification, and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks,
Mackenzie Farkus
From: Denver Public Schools
Good Morning – This search produced 2,400 emails. A cursory review show very few are external email blasts; some are automatic replies; some are internal newsletters – if these type of emails are not of interest to you; I can reduce my estimate of time to review/redact to 1 minute per email which thus make my staff time estimate: 40 staff hours. Again, if you have a hardship I am willing to waive 5 hours of staff time.
Please let me know how you would like to proceed.
Sincerely,
Stacy Wheeler
CORA Officer
Denver Public Schools
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203
720-423-2038
If you have CORA questions or concerns, please email CORA@dpsk12.org
From: Mackenzie Farkus
Hi Stacy,
Thank you for your response. I'm not really interested in automatic replies and/or internal newsletters, so I'm fine with those being left out of the search in order to reduce reviewing/redacting time!
As far as a hardship waiver goes, I'm currently a journalism student in college paying my own bills (medical, credit card, food, some tuition, etc.). I would love to be able to pay for my FOIA requests and other journalism-related things, but sadly, I have to push that off until I'm more financially stable. A waiver for 5 hours of staff time would greatly help me.
Please let me know if you have any additional questions, and I'll get back to you ASAP.
Thanks,
Mackenzie Farkus
From: Denver Public Schools
Good Morning -
I appreciate your position. My advice to you with this CORA request, is think about how can you narrow your search by adding an additional search term to your other search terms. For example, strike is going to be a very popular term during the time period you selected. Is there another word phrase you can add so the email must include both the work strike and the additional term.
Not sure what you want your story to be about but that topic can probably help you narrow your search.
Stacy Wheeler
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From: Mackenzie Farkus
Hello Stacy,
I would like to narrow down my request to include both the phrases "Denver Classroom Teachers Association" and "teachers strike." Let me know if this works!
Thanks for your help,
Mackenzie Farkus
From: Denver Public Schools
I am working on this and should have something to you early next week.
Sincerely,
Stacy Wheeler
CORA Officer
Denver Public Schools
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203
720-423-2038
If you have CORA questions or concerns, please email CORA@dpsk12.org
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~WRD000
From: Denver Public Schools
Sorry for the long delay – I will have documents for you on Monday by 1 p.m. MDT. We ended up with two snow days this week which affected me having the documents to you today.
Sincerely,
Stacy Wheeler
CORA Officer
Denver Public Schools
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203
720-423-2038
If you have CORA questions or concerns, please email CORA@dpsk12.org
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~WRD000
From: Denver Public Schools
We are in receipt of your records request concerning emails related to emails to/from Susana Cordova, Lauren Dunn, Debbie Hearty, Anna Eljo, Mark Ferrandino, David Suppes, Eldridge Greer, Jennifer Holladay, and Michelle Berge. including the phrases "Denver Classroom Teachers Association" and "teachers strike” during the time period February 10 to the 15. You will find attached/enclosed the record(s) you requested. Some emails have been redacted to remove personal information (citizen email addresses). Additionally, Denver Public Schools is in possession of records responsive to your request that are not subject to disclosure pursuant to deliberative process privilege C.R.S. 24-72-204(3)(a)(XIII).
Sincerely,
Stacy Wheeler
CORA Officer
Denver Public Schools
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203
720-423-2038
If you have CORA questions or concerns, please email CORA@dpsk12.org
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