{"id":9987,"date":"2012-01-11T15:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=9987"},"modified":"2012-01-11T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:02:15","slug":"school-board-confused-about-wakes-public-information-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2012\/01\/11\/school-board-confused-about-wakes-public-information-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"School Board Confused about Wake\u2019s Public Information Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican School Board member Debra Goldman raised concerns at Tuesday\u2019s school board meeting about the transparency of lengthy threads of email exchanges among board members.<\/p>\n

Goldman and fellow-Republican Deborah Prickett specifically requested the discussion on WCPSS public information policy to be added as an action item to the agenda\u2014but no action was taken.<\/p>\n

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Jim Martin and other members of the Wake County School Board discuss the system's public information policy. Photo by Will Huntsberry.<\/p><\/div>\n

The discussion instead centered around a thread of emails generated by Democratic board member Jim Martin, who was elected in the fall.<\/p>\n

In the emails, which were sent out to board members and staff, Martin said he questioned the logic of a recent public records request for all his emails since taking office. He added that he didn\u2019t say he wouldn\u2019t comply.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy concern with Jim asking questions about if we had to answer this wide net that was cast for the new board members \u2014 my concern was that in asking that it could countervene longstanding North Carolina statute,\u201d Goldman said.<\/p>\n

The board\u2019s attorney Ann Majestic clarified the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI appreciate Mrs. Goldman\u2019s point \u2014 to a point,\u201d Majestic said. \u201cShow restraint if it\u2019s working towards a decision, a board action item. Having those kinds of discussion would be contrary to the spirit of the [law]. This was more about an information exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n

While not the original requester, the Record has asked for the emails in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A discussion of WCPSS\u2019s policy on public information requests unexpectedly showed up on Tuesday\u2019s board agenda as an action item. Certain board members asked whether group emails among board members comply with the spirit of the law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24024,"featured_media":9988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,23,55],"tags":[390,389,388,64,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}