HCPSS MPIA Request #2020-172

Requested Information
I respectfully request to obtain electronic copies of all email and text communication (if available) between Tom Coale and current members of the Board of Education and/or Superintendent Martirano for the time period of May 1, 2017 through October 18, 2019.
For email communication, this request is for electronic copies of:
(1) any emails sent to OR received from ‘tcoale@talkin-oh.com’ or ‘tcoale@gmail.com’ in the email accounts belonging to Dr. Martirano or a Board of Education member, for the time period of May 1, 2017 through October 18, 2019.
and
(2) any emails in which the search term ‘Tom Coale’ or ‘Thomas Coale’ or ‘Thomas G. Coale’ appears in the subject line or body of an email in the email accounts belonging to Dr. Martirano or a Board of Education member, for the time period of May 1, 2017 through October 18, 2019.
Date Received
Status
Complete
Response Notes

Responsive to your request for text messages, no existing records have been located meeting the parameters requested.

Responsive Documents
Responsive to this request, in addition to the initial batch of email provided above, please find attached emails from mailboxes belonging to either current Board of Education members and/or Dr. Martirano in which the email addresses supplied are anywhere in a To or From field, as well as where the names supplied as keywords showed up in subject line or body of an email. Per discussions to date, we have also included where the email addresses are copied/CC as well as those attachments containing the requested keywords. Under MPIA GP § 4-330, we have redacted sociological information where it contains personal phone numbers, addresses or has the potential to pose a risk to individual safety or privacy. Under MPIA GP § 4-344, which allows a custodian to deny inspection of confidential opinions, deliberations, advice or recommendations from one governmental employee or official to another for the purpose of assisting the latter official in the decision-making function, we have redacted a specific operational recommendation from the COO to the Superintendent in a June 27, 2017, email. Additional redactions contained within these records are for non-responsive content unrelated to the transaction of HCPSS business such as personal information/conversations shared and personal photos.

*Some request language is summarized to include the requester's specific document requests and legally protected information (such as personally identifiable information of a student) or personal, defamatory and malicious content removed at the discretion of the school system.

**Responses containing legally protected information available only to the person of interest are omitted from the above report.

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