Requestor
Barb Krupiarz
Requested Information
MPIA response 2025-078 (https://mpia.hcpss.org/requests/2025-078) lists special education settlement/compliance costs for FY2024.
MPIA response 2025-086 (https://mpia.hcpss.org/requests/2025-086) lists payments to entities for FY2024. In that spreadsheet, there are payments to special education parent attorneys presumably from lost legal cases where the school system had to pay the parents' legal costs. The total of that is over $850,000.
I am requesting the document that shows where those funds are paid in the budget because they are not in the response to PIA 2025-078.
I am also requesting all emails from the special education Executive Director, Director, Special Education Compliance staff (2), and the Chief Academic officer from December 11, 2024 to the present with my name in them.
MPIA response 2025-086 (https://mpia.hcpss.org/requests/2025-086) lists payments to entities for FY2024. In that spreadsheet, there are payments to special education parent attorneys presumably from lost legal cases where the school system had to pay the parents' legal costs. The total of that is over $850,000.
I am requesting the document that shows where those funds are paid in the budget because they are not in the response to PIA 2025-078.
I am also requesting all emails from the special education Executive Director, Director, Special Education Compliance staff (2), and the Chief Academic officer from December 11, 2024 to the present with my name in them.
Date Received
Status
Complete
Response Notes
Responsive to this request, for reference, payments to attorneys often are a result of payments for an agreement with families and are not necessarily direct payments for lost cases/attorney fees. Additional information would be needed to complete response.
Responsive Documents
Responsive to the second portion of this request, we conducted a search of the @hcpss email system within the following parameters:
• Date Range:
o Between December 11, 2024, and the receipt of this request
• Mailbox Locations:
o Terrell Savage
o Richard Jefferies
o Janice Yetter
o Patricia Gunshore
o Kelly Russo
• Keywords:
o Barb Krupiarz
o Krupiarz
o Barb K
• Sender:
o Terrell Savage
o Richard Jefferies
o Janice Yetter
o Patricia Gunshore
o Kelly Russo
Which resulted in the attached hits. Please note, further review would be needed to determine releasability of all attachments, links and/or external records noted within the responsive email content itself.
• Date Range:
o Between December 11, 2024, and the receipt of this request
• Mailbox Locations:
o Terrell Savage
o Richard Jefferies
o Janice Yetter
o Patricia Gunshore
o Kelly Russo
• Keywords:
o Barb Krupiarz
o Krupiarz
o Barb K
• Sender:
o Terrell Savage
o Richard Jefferies
o Janice Yetter
o Patricia Gunshore
o Kelly Russo
Which resulted in the attached hits. Please note, further review would be needed to determine releasability of all attachments, links and/or external records noted within the responsive email content itself.