School board: superintendent applications are not public records while at post office
From Sunshine Review
February 17, 2009
[edit] School board: superintendent applications are not public records while at post office
"The Cincinnati School Board is hoping a post office box will shield superintendent candidates' resumes from public records requests until all applications are in.
Information posted on the district's Web site instructs applicants to send resumes and other materials to Post Office Box 198008 in Cincinnati, where they will sit untouched until March 16. Ohio state law specifically allows access to resumes submitted for public employment, but school board President Eileen Cooper Reed said the applications will not qualify as public records until they're picked up March 16 because the board will not technically receive or use them until then.
"Based on what I can tell, it's not a record until we use it," she said.
Frank LoMonte, director of the Student Press Law Center, compared the post office box to a bank account.
"I would invite the members of the school board to try telling the IRS that money direct-deposited into their bank accounts is not 'theirs' until they withdraw the money and spend it," he said. "Please send me a postcard from tax jail and let me know how that worked out.""
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