@mococouncilmd President Friedson Waits Until 5 Days Before Council Hearing to Ask (NOT SUBPOENA) Unredacted Jackson Lewis Report from @mocoboe

Attention Montgomery County Council President Andrew Friedson:

The Parents' Coalition wishes to advise you that Montgomery County Public Schools and the Montgomery County Board of Education can never respond to a public information act request in under 30 days.  

If the Montgomery County Council wanted a copy of a document prior to their February 8, 2024, meeting they would have had to request it by at least December 1, 2023, to allow for MCPS and Board of Education attorneys (in house and outside) to ask for an extension of time, review the request, shuffle the document around for weeks and eventually produce another redacted version of the document.  

However, if the Montgomery County Council ACTUALLY wanted a copy of this document they could just subpoena it.  

But we realize that you don't really want to make an unredacted copy of the Jackson Lewis LLC report public so the February 2, 2024, letter shown below will be a nice touch to tell the public you "tried" with absolutely no chance of MCPS actually producing an unredacted copy of the letter by February 8th. 

After February 8th, way after, the Board of Education can quietly slip the County Council a less redacted version of the Jackson Lewis Report without any public notice.   

Well played.