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Ketchikan Gateway Borough school board gets legal briefing on Open Meetings, public records and social media risks
Summary
At a July 30 special meeting the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District board held a work session legal training led by Anchorage attorney Leah Philippi on the Open Meetings Act, the Public Records Act, adjudicatory duties (nonretention, dismissals, expulsions), and how personal social media can become public records. The board approved the agenda and entered the work session; no policy votes were taken.
Leah Philippi, an attorney with Cedar, Wendland, Evans, and Philippi in Anchorage, told the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District Board of Education on July 30 that Alaska law sets both the board's baseline duties and limits on how members may act outside of noticed meetings.
"One of the things that you all have in common is that you are all creatures of the same set of statutes," Philippi said, describing statutes that assign boards responsibilities such as adopting the budget, setting the school calendar and keeping records. She told members the statutes also create specific adjudicatory duties the board must perform, including reviewing nonretention decisions, teacher-dismissal challenges and certain student-discipline cases.
Philippi walked the board through the Open Meetings Act and the Public Records Act,…
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