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Board says FOIA requests will be posted online as staff flag growing workload
Summary
Board President Frank Tribuzio said the district will post FOIA requests on its website; Recording Secretary Andrea Garcia told the Board that recent FOIA requests have been a "huge time commitment" and staff have asked for extensions on nearly all requests.
The Norridge School District 80 Board of Education on Feb. 17 agreed to post Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on the district website, a step President Frank Tribuzio said could improve transparency.
"Mr. Tribuzio shared that our FOIAs will be posted on the school website," the minutes state. Board member Mr. Berardi asked how many requests the district has been receiving and how long they take to process. Recording Secretary Andrea Garcia said the volume and workload are significant: "they’re a huge time commitment, noting that they’ve had to ask for extensions on almost all of them lately." The Board discussed converting FOIA responses into a chart; Tribuzio said the Board had no objections to that change.
Why it matters: posting FOIA requests could make records more broadly accessible and reduce repeat requests, but staff capacity to redact and prepare records remains constrained. The Board asked administration to continue the conversation and review posting formats as part of routine administrative items on the district website.
Next steps: the Board signaled support for posting FOIA material and for exploring a chart-format presentation; no formal vote was recorded beyond the discussion noted in the minutes.
