Judge rules against anti-union think tank in bid for access to teacher emails
Source: Las Vegas Sun
A Clark County district judge ruled today that schoolteachers’ work email addresses are not considered a matter of public record.
Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District Judge Douglas Smith dismissed Nevada Policy Research Institute’s public records lawsuit against the Clark County School District, ruling that the “requested email database is confidential” and “not a public book or a public record.”
... NPRI sued the School District after it denied several public records requests for the teacher emails. The conservative think tank has been waging an email campaign against the Clark County Education Association, sending email blasts to thousands of teachers encouraging them to drop their union memberships.
Although teacher email addresses are widely published on individual school websites, the School District has refused to release a list of teacher email addresses, stating that it doesn’t want its more than 17,000 teachers to be “inundated with spam.”
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