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Teacher and donor Jessica Clancy wins address redaction after recounting stalking incident
Summary
Jessica Clancy told the PDC she was stalked by a student who found her phone and hacked her social media; the commission found disclosure of her home address posed an unreasonable safety risk and approved redaction of the address from PAC reports.
Jessica Clancy told the Public Disclosure Commission she works as a teacher for students with severe emotional and behavioral needs and described safety concerns after a student located her personal contact information online.
"So I am a teacher at a school for students with severe emotional and behavioral needs, and, one of my kiddos, suffers, with schizophrenia and is having some long sort of drawn out, delusions which has caused him to, stalk my, my phone," Clancy testified. She said she had removed much personal information from the internet but that Google would not remove the address it considered "important for the public to know."
PDC Chair Jay Leach reviewed the statutory standard and said the commission finds the disclosure would expose Clancy to an unreasonable safety risk. "I'm going to find, that, this request should be granted and that disclosure of this information, exposes, Ms. Clancy to an unreasonable safety risk and that the statutory requirements have been met with that showing," Leach said, and directed IT staff to remove her address from publicly available online records.
The request concerned contributions Clancy made to Volunteers for Issaquah Schools PAC reported for the 2016 and 2018 election years. Staff confirmed written authorization from the PAC and said they would follow up after the hearing to implement the redaction and amend public records.
