Requested Information
It is requested to provide all email correspondence, and text messages exchanged amongst HCPSS BoE members about Polygon 1171 be provided to requester. Date range for search is August 1, 2019 to December 18, 2019.
Date Received
Status
Complete
Responsive Documents
Per clarification to narrow “amongst BOE members” to those specifically those sent by Board members to any other Board members, as well as only search the body and subject line for the keyword “1171”, the attached records were collected. Under both 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, HCPSS must protect against the potential disclosures of personally identifiable information about students. In accordance, HCPSS follows the Maryland State Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics’ guidelines for protecting student privacy in public reporting and suppresses the following from responsive records: populations that fall below 10; percentages that are less than or equal to 5, or greater than or equal to 95; categories directly related to specific student records; and/or information that can reasonably identify an individual student or reveals information from an individual student’s record or could do so when combined with other publicly accessible data.
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 privacy.