Can’t wait for Youngkin and Miyares’ teams to investigate Loudoun County, VA.
Seriously.
They lied and covered up a rape, and transferred the gender-fluid rapist to another school where he raped again.
Now they are trying to make a parent pay $36,0000 to fill a freedom of info request about their misconduct.https://t.co/6K7Hm47ZAh
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) December 3, 2021
Yup, you read that correctly.
$36,000.
Now, this editor is also from Virginia and earlier this year reached out to find out how much a FOIA for a batch of emails between Beth Barts and the superintendent would cost. They quoted $72.16 an hour and the grand total was nearly $3k … for one request.
Gosh, almost as if they don’t want to fill those requests.
From The Washington Examiner:
A parent was told by Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia that it would cost tens of thousands of dollars to gain access to all the public records relating to sexual assault and rape incidents across several months this year.
The parent, Michelle Mege, was informed $36,000 would be the tab for the county to respond to her Freedom of Information Act request fully on Oct. 18, according to the Daily Caller. In particular, she requested access to “all communications, including press releases, statements, emails, or other correspondence in any format within the LCPS possession” that contained the words “sexual assault” or “rape” between May 1 and Oct. 18.
Wayde Byard, a public information officer with Loudoun County Public Schools, said there were 100,065 “potential documents” in response to her request.
“Retrieving these documents would take a half hour’s work by the supervisor of information technology at a cost of $36.08,” he added. “Review of these documents, at the rate of 200 per hour, is estimated to take 500 hours. This work would be performed by the public information officer at the rate of $72.15 per hour. Loudoun County Public Schools estimates it would cost $36,111.68 to fulfill this request.”
Ooh, it went down a cent per hour.
This is an OUTSTANDING first project for the incoming Republican AG.
— PatriotGirl07041776 (@girl07041776) December 3, 2021
Indeed.
I would expect public disclosure law to specify/limit how much they can charge, but I guess that varies by state.
— rojohnny (@rojohnny54) December 3, 2021
Lets get a fund going to pay it 3x over so they don't have any excuses.
— Erik Bootsma🌸 (@ErikBootsma) December 3, 2021
Mother of God. They are absolutely despicable.
— Eric Morel-Ensminger (@erichornman) December 3, 2021
Liberal run school districts…
— sarcastic eric (@eolsn) December 3, 2021
Even the most corrupt Catholic dioceses would not have tried to pull this to protect abusers. The Loudoun district should be sued into bankruptcy replaced by vouchers and charter schools for the safety of its students. https://t.co/Qw413epHoI
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) December 3, 2021
Blue counties with blue school boards and blue districts.
Yup.
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