Jul 18, 2022
FOIA and Open Records Requests - The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal law that provides the public the right to request access to records from any federal agency.
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FOIA and Open Records Requests - The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal law that provides the public the right to request access to records from any federal agency.
FOI Blog Post #5
So since the school board did not help me out in terms of giving me the information that I wanted, I took the time to try and get information from the School District, because I knew that would be the smartest thing to do if no one was following back. I honestly wasn’t expecting a response, but I was able to gathering this type of information that was sent to me through an Excel Spreadsheet:
I found out that there are no vaccinations needed at Woodway and a total of 680 elementary school students.
There are 439 students at Versia L. Williams and there no information was gathered regarding the vaccine exemptions.
There are 640 students at Westcreek Elementary school and no information was gathered regarding the vaccine exemptions.
So, I guess that overall there was a 50% success. Feel free to check out my final blog post for some final thoughts on this assignment...
FOI Blog Post #2
The letters have been sent. Well, they have been for a few days ago, but this is my blog post to confirm that they went out. I haven’t gotten any response yet, which isn’t surprising.
Here is what my letters looked like:
***I refrained from placing in the addresses of the school and my own address, but both of them are also mentioned in this letter.
I think it’s not going to be easy getting this type of information. Even though what I am requesting is so simple, elementary schools do not want to place the effort to give this information. They have to go through so many people in order to get this information. My next step this week is to call the schools and ask if they have received my letter.
"Oh, your administration is transparent?"
"Why did you deny my FOI request?"
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