Trustee Sloan's curious reading of the CA Public Records Act

On April 18, 2012 I filed a California Public Records Act request with the Lagunitas School District requesting access to all documents and communications concerning the LWIP charter petition. This past Friday, May 25th, the District began making some of the documents available to me. One of the documents I have received so far is the following curious email from Trustee Richard Sloan. After reading Mr. Sloan's email I wonder if and when he will be turning over all the emails from his official school district and personal email accounts concerning the charter petition. After reading his email you may also be wondering the same thing. He can be reached at: r.sloan@comcast.net.

 

If you do contact Trustee Sloan please ask him if he is implying in his email that a concerned citizen using the state Public Records Act law to peer into the inner working of local government and our elected representatives is "delusional, time wasting" and "chickens***." Trustee Sloan advised my fellow LWIP parents in several LWIP AC and PC meetings I attended in 2010 and 2011 to go charter. This move is now costing the District a tidy sum in legal expenses that may or may not be reimbursed by our broke state government. Perhaps Mr. Sloan assumes the District spending even more money defending itself (on his behalf) against a subpoena would not further add to the growing legal bill.

Full disclosure: I ran against Richard Sloan last November for the Board of Trustees.