Loudoun County School Division Flooded with Over 500 FOIA Requests – IOTW Report

Loudoun County School Division Flooded with Over 500 FOIA Requests

Loudoun Now: Earlier this year, conservative activists swarmed Loudoun County School Board meetings to protest an array of policies.

Now they’re overwhelming the Loudoun County Public Schools Public Information office with Virginia Freedom of Information Act requests.

More than 500 VFOIA requests have been filed with the school division so far this year, compared to an average of about 90 annually between 2012 and 2018. About 40 percent of them have been filed by a half-dozen individuals who are members of or allied with Fight for Schools, which has led efforts to recall members of the School Board over the policies they have protested.

School division Public Information Officer Wayde Byard said the increase in VFOIA submissions prompted caused the school system to double the number of people who process the requests. “LCPS is not seeking further resources at this time but has begun billing VFIOA requesters because it cannot handle the current volume free of charge,” Byard said. more here

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