Editor’s Note: Sunshine Request makes no claim as to the veracity of any statements or information contained in any of the requests, or public records, we receive.
Editor’s Note to Sender 11/27/23: The submission above has been marked as “Completed.”
We will assume that the sender is referring to Transylvania County, NC Schools [TCS].
Since August of 2023 our Team has continued to experience delays and other issues with the fulfillment of our requests sent to TCS — particularly, the responses we’ve received from Brian Weaver. It’s unclear why these issues are occurring now. Brian has fulfilled other public records requests made by our team in past years.
Currently, we have two active records requests “open” with TCS. You can track the status of those two requests at the following URLs:
As soon as his availability allows, the Director of Sunshine Request plans to call Brian’s office to discuss the responses to our August and November requests. Any updates we send to or receive from Brian or TCS about either request, will be posted on our website. If we do not hear back, then we will mark the requests as having been “Denied” by TCS, or we will consider next steps to contact their Board etc. to raise our concerns about their records process.
At this point, it seems very likely we will continue to experience the same issues (even if we submit a new request that should be very easy for TCS to fulfill). Until we receive a satisfactory resolution from TCS regarding our open requests… unfortunately, it will not be possible for our small Team to spend additional time to send any new records requests to TCS. We apologize for the inconvenience.
In the meantime — if any new info you’d like to request is urgent or is needed in a timely manner, then we ask that you please consider reaching out to TCS directly for assistance with any new requests.
Additionally, please note:
Sunshine Request will not fulfill the following types of requests:
☀️ Requests that are incomplete, non-specific, or vague.
While we do proofread requests we receive for general spelling and clarity, we may choose not to fulfill the request if it is incomplete, or it is unclear what specific information the requester hopes to receive. In this case, the sender may rewrite and resubmit the request.
It’s the requester’s responsibility to write the request in a manner that clearly specifies a record that is being requested, and to what government entity it should be sent.
☀️ Requests that are only informational questions, and requests that are not addressed to government entities.
Sunshine Request is a site built to make requests for public records to the government — Public records are recorded information such as documents, government emails, and data sets.
In the interest of preserving our team’s time to focus on the high volume of requests on our site, as well to respect the staff time of government entities fulfilling records requests, Sunshine Request will no longer fulfill “requests” that are just informational type questions for government entities to answer.
We also will not fulfill requests made to non-government entities.
It’s the requester’s responsibility to write the request in a manner that clearly specifies a record that is being requested, and to what government entity it should be sent.
☀️ Please be specific:
It is important that what you are requesting is specific and reasonable, and is an actionable records request. Please specify the exact type of records you’d like to receive, rather than any “possible” or “potential” info that could be searched. Remember that the larger your request, the more time it usually takes to fulfill. Specificity will often help reduce the amount of time needed to process the request.
It is important that a request has a clearly written and complete Subject and Message, and also specifies the Government Entity (or entities), City and/or County, and State to which the request should be sent. If applicable, please also include any responsive timelines for the info that should be requested.
While we do proofread requests we receive for general spelling and clarity, we may choose not to fulfill the request if it is incomplete, or it is unclear what specific info the requester hopes to receive, or if it violates our policies.
Before submitting a request, please take a moment to review our tips for How to write and make a successful request. If you have additional questions about our site or how to make requests, please check out our FAQs or Policies page.
☀️ Code of Conduct: Please do not use Sunshine Request or any of the results of public records requests to harass government entities / employees, businesses, private citizens / individuals, or otherwise.
☀️ Please note that we cannot pay any fees / associated costs related to any of the requests on our site. If it is not possible for a Government Agency to process our request without incurring fees, then it is the responsibility of that Agency to let us know what the potential costs may be — at which point we will ask that they cease processing the request. We will mark the request as “Completed” on our site, and the sender can contact the Government Agency directly, should they wish to further pursue a request.
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