MEA: 'No story' in release of union e-mails by EAG
From Sunshine Review
January 29, 2009
[edit] MEA: 'No story' in release of union e-mails by EAG
"A Muskegon-based education watchdog group is claiming a victory in defense of the state's Freedom of Information Act after securing copies of e-mails sent and received by the president of the Wayne-Westland Education Association, using a taxpayer-funded e-mail account.
The Michigan Education Association, the WWEA's parent group, however, contends that the Education Action Group Vice President Kyle Olson is just "trying to insert himself into a situation that, as a Muskegon resident, doesn't affect him."
It took two attempts under the Freedom of Information Act for Olson to obtain the e-mails from the Wayne-Westland Community Schools. The first attempt was blocked when the MEA obtained a temporary injunction until the merits of the request could be heard in court. Lacking funds, EAG dropped the request, but submitted a second one, addressing the objections the union attorneys had stated in court."
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