Public records request - Business Insider (University of Georgia)
| Submitted | Jan. 10, 2024 |
| Due | Jan. 16, 2024 |
| Est. Completion | May 17, 2024 |
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From: Hannah Beckler
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Georgia Open Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
1. A copy of all guidelines, protocols, training materials, educational materials, and screening or diagnostic materials used by the university’s athletics department related to the prevention of disordered eating, identification of student-athletes at risk of developing disordered eating, and establishing a chain of reporting for a student-athlete flagged as at risk for developing or exhibiting symptoms of disordered eating. Relevant keywords to this records search include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, relative energy deficiency, low energy availability, RED-S, and disordered eating.
If there are any fees for searching or copying these records, please inform me if the cost will exceed $10. However, I would also like to request a waiver of all fees because I am a reporter for a widely read news site, Business Insider, and the disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest and will contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of American universities’ procedures for assisting student-athletes at risk of developing eating disorders.
In conducting your search, please use the most recent technologies and tools available.
If any part of our request is determined by your organization to be exempt from disclosure, please release any segregable non-exempt portions. If your organization determines that such segregation is impossible, please indicate why this is technically the case. If my request is denied in whole or part, I ask that you justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the Georgia Open Records Act § 50.18.70 et seq.,. I reserve the right to appeal your decision to withhold any information or to deny a waiver of fees.
Please produce these records in the electronic format and share them with me via email at nparakul@insider.com, if possible.
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,
Hannah Beckler
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Jan. 10, 2024. 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: University of Georgia
Ms. Beckler—
This is to acknowledge receipt of your request for documents under the Georgia Open Records Act, received after-hours Wednesday, January 10, 2024. For the purposes of the statutory three-day response, we deem your request to be received Thursday, January 11, 2024. This reply is in accordance with the three-day period of response pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(b)(2).
You have requested, “A copy of all guidelines, protocols, training materials, educational materials, and screening or diagnostic materials used by the university’s athletics department related to the prevention of disordered eating, identification of student-athletes at risk of developing disordered eating, and establishing a chain of reporting for a student-athlete flagged as at risk for developing or exhibiting symptoms of disordered eating.” You further clarified that, “Relevant keywords to this records search include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, relative energy deficiency, low energy availability, RED-S, and disordered eating.”
Because you have requested records of the University’s intercollegiate sports program, I have forwarded it to the University’s Athletic Department for an assessment of the scope of potentially responsive documents, estimation of the costs to search for and produce responsive records, and consideration of potentially applicable exemptions.
A written response to your request will arrive within the time-period specified in O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(d.1).
Bob Taylor
Division of Marketing & Communications
Open Records Manager
Hodgson Oil Building, Suite 200 N | 286 Oconee St. | Athens, GA 30602
706-542-8090 | btaylor@uga.edu<mailto:btaylor@uga.edu> | www.uga.edu<http://www.uga.edu/>
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From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Jan. 10, 2024. 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: University of Georgia
Ms. Beckler—
This is in response to your February 1, 2024, email in which you asked for an update regarding your Open Records Act request.
To reiterate, you have requested, “A copy of all guidelines, protocols, training materials, educational materials, and screening or diagnostic materials used by the university’s athletics department related to the prevention of disordered eating, identification of student-athletes at risk of developing disordered eating, and establishing a chain of reporting for a student-athlete flagged as at risk for developing or exhibiting symptoms of disordered eating.” You further clarified that, “Relevant keywords to this records search include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, relative energy deficiency, low energy availability, RED-S, and disordered eating.”
With respect to your request, I can reiterate that, as we first corresponded on January 17, 2023, your request was forwarded to the University’s Athletic Department for an assessment of the scope of potentially responsive documents, estimation of the costs to search for and produce responsive records, and consideration of potentially applicable exemptions. Upon receipt of this information, we will respond to your request in writing within the time-period specified in O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(d.1). This portion of the Georgia Code states, “Any other provision of this Code section to the contrary notwithstanding, the period within which any production, access, response, or notice is required from an agency with respect to a request for records, other than salary information for non-clerical staff, of intercollegiate sports programs of any unit of the University System of Georgia, including athletic departments and related private athletic associations, shall be 90 business days from the date the agency received the request.”
Specific to your request, 90-business-days from your initial request is May 17, 2024.
Regards,
Bob Taylor
Division of Marketing & Communications
Open Records Manager
Hodgson Oil Building, Suite 200 N | 286 Oconee St. | Athens, GA 30602
706-542-8090 | btaylor@uga.edu<mailto:btaylor@uga.edu> | www.uga.edu<http://www.uga.edu/>
[University of Georgia]
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