Va. school board sues moms after docs 'inadvertently and mistakenly' released through FOIA request
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A Virginia school board is suing two mothers, arguing that documents "inadvertently and mistakenly" released through a Freedom of Information Act request and shared online included confidential information.
According to the Goldwater Institute, the school board handed Tisler more than 1,000 pages of receipts from its law firm related to the superintendent, the board and investigations into the district’s cyber hacking incident last year and its virtual learning program.
According to the board’s lawsuit, four days after the documents were released to Tisler, district officials learned that "identifiable student and personnel information" had been "inadvertently and mistakenly" released to Tisler without receiving a "second-level review by counsel." The board sued Tisler on Sept. 27 after she refused its multiple requests to return the digital documents, the lawsuit states. Oettinger, who published some of the documents on her website, specialeducationaction.com, is named in the lawsuit after refusing to delete them from the website, the board said.