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Other (indicate in message) Submitted: April 15, 2022 | Updated: June 3, 2022
(April 2022) Request for Asheville City Schools: Total # of students with IEPs, Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) positions and vacancies, IEP disciplinary referrals for 2019, 2020, and 2022.
Hello Asheville, NC City Schools (Mark, Ashley, and Dillon Cced),
I'd like to make a multi-part public records request for the following information under NC Public Records Law.
Ref: https://www.ncleg.net/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bychapter/chapter_132.html
A) Please provide the total number of students who have IEPs at each ACS school, including Asheville Primary and the Preschool programs, as of 04/15/22 (or date the query is performed). Numbers or percentage of student population at each school would be fine.
B1) Please provide the total number of Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) teachers at each ACS school, as of 04/15/22 (or date the query is performed).
B2) Please provide the total number of Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) teacher position vacancies at each ACS school, as of 04/15/22 (or date the query is performed).
C1) Please provide the total number of disciplinary referrals for IEP students that have occured during the 2022 school year, broken down by each school. As of 04/15/22 (or date the query is performed).
C2) Please provide the total number of disciplinary referrals for IEP students that occurred during the 2019 - 2020 school year, broken down by each school.
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NOTE: I am not requesting any personally identifiable information such as name, age, grade level etc. I’m only asking for overall totals or percentage of student population.
If any of this information is already publicly available online, please provide a link.
** If you are unable to fulfill any or all parts of this request, please specifically cite where a reason for denial is justified under NC Public Records Law. **
Thank you for your assistance!
Status: Government Denied Request
Activity:
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June 3, 2022 4:39 pm
1 year ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Mark Dickerson <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
[email protected]
cc: Dillon Huffman <[email protected]>,
Ashley Thublin <[email protected]>
date: Jun 3, 2022, 4:39 PM
subject: Re: Public Records Request: (April 2022) Request for Asheville City Schools: Total # of students with IEPs, Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) positions and vacancies, IEP disciplinary referrals for 2019, 2020, and 2022.Good afternoon Asheville City Schools,
I have followed up multiple times on my public records request sent to your offices on April 18. Having have received no response (other than Sarah Bank’s reply asking to be removed from the CCs), I am now marking this request as “Denied” on our website:
In the past, I’ve been told to send requests to “Executive Director of Communications, Ashley Thublin” and, ”Communications Specialist, Dillon Huffman”. I have attempted emailing multiple people, and have never received any reply clarifying who is currently in charge of fulfilling records requests and why they are not being fulfilled. I’ve also had to “Close / Deny” other ACS requests throughout the past year, for the same reasons – This is unacceptable.
Please specify who is the appropriate contact at ACS to fulfill public records requests, and please provide an explanation why there has been no response to my request since April 18.
ACS is required to process all valid public records requests under NC Public Records Law. If you are intentionally delaying fulfillment of the request by allowing it to “sit” until staff has availability or feels like addressing, then I worry you are not processing public records requests in compliance with the Law.
With this in mind, I want to highlight the court case referenced in item #6 of the following article, posted on the NC Press Association website. In this instance: “The trial court held that an unjustified one-month delay in production of records was tantamount to a denial”.
http://www.ncpress.com/stories/a-bakers-dozen-for-2022nc-public-records-law,2390
I respectfully ask that legal staff take immediate action to resolve this issue and ensure that ALL public records requests are being fulfilled by ACS as required under NC Public Records Law.
I will continue to submit public records requests to ACS in the future, and I would like assurance that I will receive a response and that requests are being processed by your offices in accordance with the law.
Thank you!
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Government Denied Request -
May 11, 2022 3:06 pm
1 year ago
from: Sarah Banks <[email protected]>
to: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
date: May 11, 2022, 3:06 PM
subject: Re: Public Records Request: (April 2022) Request for Asheville City Schools: Total # of students with IEPs, Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) positions and vacancies, IEP disciplinary referrals for 2019, 2020, and 2022.Please remove me from your list as my position is not responsible for media requests.
Thank you,
Sarah Banks
Asheville City Schools
Status: Follow up -
May 11, 2022 3:02 pm
1 year ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Mark Dickerson <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]
cc: Dillon Huffman <[email protected]>,
Ashley Thublin <[email protected]>
date: May 11, 2022, 3:02 PM
subject: Re: Public Records Request: (April 2022) Request for Asheville City Schools: Total # of students with IEPs, Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) positions and vacancies, IEP disciplinary referrals for 2019, 2020, and 2022.Good afternoon Asheville City Schools (Records Officer),
I’m following up again on this public records request that was sent on 4/18: (April 2022) Request for Asheville City Schools: Total # of students with IEPs, Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) positions and vacancies, IEP disciplinary referrals for 2019, 2020, and 2022
Please confirm that the request has been received on your end, and if / when it will begin being processed. Please provide a timeline or rough estimate as to when the request will be completed, and I will follow up around the time you specify.
If you’re not the appropriate party to contact about the request, please provide the correct name and email address of whom I should send it to.
I’ll make one more attempt to follow up at the end of the month before marking this request as denied.
Thank you for your assistance!
Status: Follow up -
3 hours ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Mark Dickerson <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]
cc: Dillon Huffman <[email protected]>,
Ashley Thublin <[email protected]>
date: Apr 26, 2022, 2:08 PM
subject: Re: Public Records Request: (April 2022) Request for Asheville City Schools: Total # of students with IEPs, Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) positions and vacancies, IEP disciplinary referrals for 2019, 2020, and 2022.Good afternoon Asheville City Schools (Records Officer),
I’m following up on this public records request that was sent on 4/18: (April 2022) Request for Asheville City Schools: Total # of students with IEPs, Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) positions and vacancies, IEP disciplinary referrals for 2019, 2020, and 2022
Please confirm that the request has been received on your end, and if / when it will begin being processed. Please provide a timeline or rough estimate as to when the request will be completed, and I will follow up around the time you specify.
If you’re not the appropriate party to contact about the request, please provide the correct name and email address of whom I should send it to.
In any case, I’ll plan to follow up in early May if I have not heard back before then.
Thank you for your assistance!
Status: Government Processing Request -
April 18, 2022 2:30 pm
2 years ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Mark Dickerson <[email protected]>
cc: Dillon Huffman <[email protected]>,
Ashley Thublin <[email protected]>
date: Apr 18, 2022, 2:30 PM
subject: Public Records Request: (April 2022) Request for Asheville City Schools: Total # of students with IEPs, Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) positions and vacancies, IEP disciplinary referrals for 2019, 2020, and 2022.Good afternoon Asheville City Schools (Records Officer),
I’d like to make a public records request for information that may be available in your office.
If you’re not the appropriate party to contact about the request, please provide the correct name and email address of whom I should send it to.
Please confirm receipt to let me know the request will begin processing, and if possible, please provide a rough estimate of when the request may be completed. I will plan on following up again around the end of the month if I have not heard back before then.
Here are the details of the request:
Subject: (April 2022) Request for Asheville City Schools: Total # of students with IEPs, Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) positions and vacancies, IEP disciplinary referrals for 2019, 2020, and 2022.
Message: “Hello Asheville, NC City Schools (Mark, Ashley, and Dillon Cced),
I’d like to make a multi-part public records request for the following information under NC Public Records Law.
Ref: https://www.ncleg.net/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bychapter/chapter_132.htmlA) Please provide the total number of students who have IEPs at each ACS school, including Asheville Primary and the Preschool programs, as of 04/15/22 (or date the query is performed). Numbers or percentage of student population at each school would be fine.
B1) Please provide the total number of Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) teachers at each ACS school, as of 04/15/22 (or date the query is performed).
B2) Please provide the total number of Special Education and Exceptional Children (EC) teacher position vacancies at each ACS school, as of 04/15/22 (or date the query is performed).
C1) Please provide the total number of disciplinary referrals for IEP students that have occured during the 2022 school year, broken down by each school. As of 04/15/22 (or date the query is performed).
C2) Please provide the total number of disciplinary referrals for IEP students that occurred during the 2019 – 2020 school year, broken down by each school.
———NOTE: I am not requesting any personally identifiable information such as name, age, grade level etc. I’m only asking for overall totals or percentage of student population.
If any of this information is already publicly available online, please provide a link.
** If you are unable to fulfill any or all parts of this request, please specifically cite where a reason for denial is justified under NC Public Records Law. **
Thank you for your assistance!”
Thank you!
** Sunshine Request (www.sunshinerequest.com) makes no claim as to the veracity of any statements or information contained in any of the requests, or public records, we receive.
Status: Sent to Government -
April 15, 2022 5:18 pm
2 years ago
Submitted to Sunshine Request
Status: Pending