HCPSS MPIA Request #2023-131

Requestor
Candice S
Requested Information
Request all correspondence between July, 2021 and today regarding Wilde Lake High School's club Students for Social Justice also known as S4SJ.
Date Received
Status
Complete
Responsive Documents
Responsive to this request, this record includes communications beyond email located by Wilde Lake High School administration. Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which restricts access to student records, and MPIA GP § 4-313, which prevents disclosure of school district records pertaining to individual students, we made redactions throughout where content could reveal individual student information from the responsive records. No brochures related to the club or traditional mail were located.
The attached batch of emails were located through a search of the @hcpss email system within the parameters below, and narrowed to those starting with the oldest moving forward where Marcy Leonard was a participant:
• Date Range
o Between July 1, 2021 and the date of this request
• Mailbox Locations
o Marcy Leonard
o Erika Strauss-Chavarria
o Kathleen Keck
o Brett Molin
o Yvonne Jackson
o Sabrina Reely
• Keywords
o “S4SJ” OR
o “Students for Social Justice”
o “Social Justice Club”
The responsive emails include redactions for the following MPIA exemptions:
• Under MPIA GP § 4-330, we have redacted sociological information where it contains personal phone numbers (also under MPIA GP § 4-331 for personal contact information
specifically of public employees) and/or has the potential to pose a risk to individual safety or privacy.
• Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which restricts access to student records, and MPIA GP § 4-313, which prevents disclosure of school district records pertaining to individual students, we have redacted information that could reveal individual student information from the responsive records.
• Under MPIA GP § 4-338, which requires a custodian to deny inspection of information about the security of an IT system, we have redacted unique internal meeting identifiers as well as login, ID, registration, and password/code information.
Please note, further review would be needed to determine releasability of all links and/or external records noted within the responsive email content itself. Additional time would be needed to continue review of responsive emails from this search.

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