Earlier this year, District leaders informed us that we had no business talking about school safety without data. So, we made a Freedom of Information Act request for the District's incident reports. The FOIA allows the district fifteen days to comply with any informational request. The District told us it would cost us ~$4600 to complete our request - and asked for one half of the money as a down payment. We knew how important this must be, so we paid them. After waiting about one and a half months, we threatened legal action if the District did not comply with the law and turn over the documents. Shortly thereafter, the District completed our request -- and raised the price of the report to ~$11,500. We paid their ransom.

What we found was shocking. The report was some 26,000 pages in length! We despaired of ever getting through all the paperwork, and indeed, have yet to do so. We have, however, gone through 2 of the 10 boxes we received from the District. What follows is the results of our efforts thus far. In each report that follows, we sorted by the crime that we believe took place -- and included the notation for the District's initial classification of the report.

Click here to see The Full Report.

While we welcome independent State-led investigation into the matter, we also believe that the public -- the people who ultimately fund these schools -- deserve to see why we believe there is a much bigger problem than the District has been reporting.

Click here to view actual incident reports

UPDATE -- a parent raised the issue of her son's safety at the last board meeting. She indicated that in her son's case, no incident report was even filled out. This raises the question "How many criminal acts were not even included in the information the District handed over?" Something must change. It is not enough to continue to sweep problems under the rug -- eventually you must confront and work to fix problems. We NEED a change! Watch the video to hear her report -- and the District's response. 

Lest anyone think that we dishonestly cut out responses to the parent, a link to the unedited end of the board meeting is included here: LINK