Customer Name:
Concerned Citizens
| 1) Please provide all emails between Dr. Patrice Payne from her first day of employment through October 26| 2021 and 1. Bret Conway| contributing columnist for The Hinsdalean 2. Pamela Lannom| editor of the Hinsdalean 3. Reid McCollum 2) Please provide all emails received or sent by Dr. Patrice Payne from her first day of employment through October 26| 2021 where words “The Hinsdalean”| “Hinsdalean”| “Reid” are included in the subject or the body of the email. Thank you |
Response:
| Your request is granted in part and denied in part. The district found no records responsive to your request #1. No records were returned using the email account [email protected]. We found no email account for Bret Conway or Reid McCollum on https: //www.thehinsdalean.com/contact to utilize in completing our search. Further| FOIA does not require the District to release the identities of private citizens who choose to express their personal opinions to the District or who may request documents from the District| as the release of such information may “constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” 5 ILCS 140/7(1)(c); see Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety v. City of Chicago| 348 Ill. App. 3d 188| 209| 211 (1st Dist. 2004) (“[T]he core purpose of the FOIA is to expose what the government is doing| not what its private citizens are up to.”). In addition| correspondence with individual parents frequently reflects individually identifiable student information| which is prohibited from disclosure under the Illinois School Student Records Act| 105 ILCS 10/1 et seq.; the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act| 20 U.S.C. § 1232g; and their implementing rules and regulations. Records responsive to your request #2 can be accessed via the Public Records Log in response to FOIA R000923-092021 and downloaded from the Public Records Center with personal email addresses| home addresses| personal phone numbers| and information that would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy| such as health and family information and the identities of private citizens who communicated personal opinions| redacted or withheld pursuant to Sections 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(c) of FOIA. Note that emails containing the word “Reid” are exempt and must be denied pursuant to these same exemptions. |