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Skokie SD 69 reports four FOIA requests; district says it responded after attorney review
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Margaret Clauson reported four FOIA requests received in June, including requests from North Cook News and a request seeking applicant race data; the district extended response time for attorney review and completed responses by July 7, 2025.
Superintendent Dr. Margaret Clauson told the board the district received four FOIA requests in June 2025 and that staff responded to each request after appropriate review.
Clauson summarized each request: CT Mills asked for a list of administrators; Owen Wang of North Cook News asked for five years of graduate lists; Jasmine Sebaggala requested applicant lists and communications related to two vacancies and enrollment counts including non-white student totals; and Owen Wang separately asked whether district high-school math teams would attend the Mu Alpha Theta convention and who would sponsor any trip. The district extended time for the Sebaggala request to allow attorney review of emails and then responded on July 7, 2025.
The transcript records the wording of one of the requests: "will the school math team from your high schools attend the annual (July) Mu Alpha Theta convention? If so, who will be attending, and who is sponsoring the trip?" That phrasing appeared as part of the June 23 request from Owen Wang (North Cook News) and was marked as responded to by the district.
Board members did not take further action on the FOIA items during the meeting; the report was informational. The district did not provide additional details about redactions or withheld material in the meeting record.
