Diversity, Equity, Inclusion materials (Sharon Springs Central School District)
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| Submitted | March 5, 2023 |
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From: Jackson Parker
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: Sharon Springs Central School District
This email is in response to your email request for information under
FOIL. Please be advised, the District does not respond to email requests
for FOIL information via drop box or portals. Our Data Privacy policies do
not allow the district to click on links that are suspicious or otherwise
not determined to be legitimate to protect the integrity of school district
data. We also do not respond to FOIL requests without a contact name AND
telephone number for the individual receiving the information, in order to
determine the point of contact receiving such records. Accordingly, this
particular request for information under FOIL is denied. If you would like
to provide this information (*name, address AND telephone number*) to which
we can respond we will reconsider your request. I have attached a copy of
the Board of Education Public Access to School Records Policy.
Additionally, we find that your request constitutes a survey and is not a
proper FOIL request. To the extent that records are requested, the request
does not adequately describe the records requested to allow the District to
identify them with reasonable effort. Should you provide a more specific
request for existing documents, we will respond to your request
accordingly.
Should you wish to appeal this determination, you may appeal it to Thomas
A. Yorke, Superintendent of Schools, Sharon Springs Central School, PO Box
218, Sharon Springs, NY 13459, by submitting a request for such an appeal
within thirty (30) days of the date of this email. If you have any
questions, please feel free to contact me or our school district counsel,
Girvin and Ferlazzo, at (518) 462-0300. Thank you.
Anthony M. DiPace
School Business Official
Records Access Officer
Sharon Springs Central School
518-284-2266
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