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Board debates making nursing-services plan public, attorney says plan is a public record subject to redaction
Summary
Trustees debated whether the district's nursing-services plan should be released as a public record. The board attorney advised it would be public but subject to student-data redaction; trustees insisted on protections for small counts that could identify students.
A trustee moved to make the nursing-services plan (agenda item 6g) available as public record; the proposal prompted a privacy-focused discussion about redactions and state rules for counts under 10. One trustee pushed for transparency and argued that, "as long as it's redacted so that children are protected, I'm happy," while other trustees insisted that any public release must remove identifying information.
The board attorney advised the body that the nursing-services plan "would become a public record subject to redaction," and explained that some categories (for example, child-placement records) remain nonpublic. Trustees asked administration to ensure redactions are applied when small counts could make students identifiable and to provide a clear explanation of the district's past practice on releasing similar documents.
