Customer Name:
Natalia Galiuk
| Please produce in PDF form any and all email correspondence dated from October 1| 2018 through December 2| 2020 sent/received by Dr. Christopher Covino and/or Carol Baker| in which any of the following topics are discussed and any of the following words are mentioned: Standard and/or Standards Based Grading| Standard-Based Grading and/or Standards-Based Grading| and/or SBG. I understand that| in accordance with Board of Education Policy 2.250 Access to District’s Public Records| persons making a request for copies of public records must pay any applicable copying fee of 15 cents per page beyond the first 50 pages. I am specifically requesting the requested email correspondence to be sent to me in PDF format. After looking through the Board of Education Policy 2.250 Access to District Public Records| I could not find any information about additional fees you had referred to in your original response to FOIA request R000841-112020. In the event that there are additional fees stipulated in the Policy| I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. Regards| Natalia Galiuk |
Response:
| The District redacted the identities and personal email addresses of private citizens| 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) (court upheld the redaction of private citizens’ names and identities| noting that “the core purpose of the FOIA is to expose what the government is doing| not what its private citizens are up to.”). The District also removed preliminary drafts| notes| recommendations| memoranda or other records in which opinions are expressed or policies or actions are formulated. See 5 ILCS 140/7(1)(f); see Harwood v. McDonough| 344 Ill. App. 3d 247 (1st Dist. 2003). Moreover| the District removed copyrighted materials pursuant to federal copyright laws and FOIA Section 7(1)(a). 5 ILCS 140/7(1)(a); see also 5 ILCS 140/7(1)(j)(iv). Finally| the District redacted personal e-mail addresses and home or personal telephone numbers per FOIA Section 7(1)(b). 5 ILCS 140/2(c- 5). |