Note regarding the July 25 email below:<\/p>\n
From:<\/strong> Mosier, Bob <RMOSIER@AACPS.org> Dear Mr. Snider:<\/p>\n This communication is in response to your request under the Public Information Act, Annotated Code of Maryland, General Provisions Article (GP) \u00a7 4-101, et seq., seeking compensation and other data for Anne Arundel County Public Schools employees.<\/p>\n A document responsive to your request that contains information related to compensation is attached to this email. As detailed in your August 2015 and August 2018 inquiries requesting similar information, information about specific employee leave is part of that employee\u2019s personnel record and not disclosable under \u00a7 4-311. Information regarding employee discipline is also part of an employee\u2019s personnel record and not disclosable under \u00a7 4-311.<\/p>\n In the event you disagree with any determination regarding this Maryland Public Information Act request, you have the right to seek review or remedy, in accordance with GP \u00a74-1B-01 through \u00a74-1B-04, with Maryland Public Access Ombudsman Lisa Kershner at lkershner@oag.state.md.us<\/a>, (410) 576-7037, or by mail at the Office of the Attorney General, 200 St. Paul Place, Baltimore, MD 21202. Under GP \u00a74-362, you also have the right to file a complaint in Circuit Court requesting a review of this decision.<\/p>\n If you have further questions, please feel free to contact me at 410-222-5312 or by email at rmosier@aacps.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Bob Mosier <\/p>\n From:<\/strong> \u2018J.H. Snider\u2019 Dear Mr. Mosier:<\/p>\n It has been three weeks since I filed my Public Information Act request (see email below). Please let me know 1) when you plan to fulfill it and 2) when you do, whether you intend to answer my questions regarding the data you claim are exempt from disclosure (see email below).<\/p>\n I recognize that in the past you have often run out the clock. I hope you won\u2019t choose to do so this time.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n J.H. Snider<\/p>\n From:<\/strong> \u2018J.H. Snider\u2019 Dear Mr. Mosier:<\/p>\n Thank you for the first time disclosing in writing that you have been withholding employee pay code data covering both leave and discipline.<\/p>\n For your convenience, I\u2019ve copied below the 72 pay codes you\u2019ve previously said are used as part of the AACPS payroll system.<\/p>\n Please put an \u201cx\u201d next to each pay code excluded under the leave and discipline exemptions you are now claiming.<\/p>\n As a matter of standard legal construction, the above claim entails an additional claim that the only two categories of pay code data that are exempt from public disclosure under Maryland\u2019s Public Information Act relate to leave and discipline.\u00a0 If you would now like to amend that claim, please put a \u201c$\u201d next to each additional pay code that you are claiming is exempt.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pay \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Pay<\/strong> Sincerely,<\/p>\n J.H. Snider<\/p>\n From:<\/strong> Mosier, Bob <RMOSIER@AACPS.org<\/a>> Dear Mr. Snider:<\/p>\n This communication is in response to your request under the Public Information Act, Annotated Code of Maryland, General Provisions Article (GP) \u00a7 4-101, et seq., <\/em>seeking information related to compensation of Anne Arundel County Public Schools employees.<\/p>\n This request has been forwarded to the appropriate staff, and pursuant to the Maryland Public Information Act, we will provide that information which is public within 30 days of your request, and certainly sooner if it is readily available. Please note that the Act does not require an agency to create new documents to satisfy a request.<\/p>\n As has been the case in your previous requests on this topic, information about specific employee leave is part of that employee\u2019s personnel record and not disclosable under \u00a7 4-311. Information regarding employee discipline is also part of an employee\u2019s personnel record and not disclosable under \u00a7 4-311. Therefore, AACPS is denying your request for any data, including pay codes, related to these two circumstances.<\/p>\n As you may be aware, \u00a74-206 (b) allows a custodian to \u201ccharge a reasonable fee for search for, preparation of, and reproduction of a public record.\u201d Under the provisions of the Act, the first two hours of labor would be provided free of charge. You would be responsible for reimbursing Anne Arundel County Public Schools for the labor required to complete all other research and compilation of documents.<\/p>\n If we determine that there will be a charge to you, we will notify you before proceeding with your request.<\/p>\n If you have further questions, please feel free to contact me at 410-222-5312 or by email at rmosier@aacps.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Bob Mosier From:<\/strong> ‘J.H. Snider’ Dear Mr. Mosier:<\/p>\n Under the Maryland Public Information Act, State Government Article (SG) \u00a7\u00a7 10-611, et seq., I request the FY2019 non-exempt compensation information for all AACPS employees, broken down by pay code, in Excel, a machine-readable format. This should include the following fields for FY2019 for each employee broken down by paycode: Employee ID, Last Name, First Name, Middle Name, Title Code, Title Description, Unit #, Work Location, FTE, Total Salary, Pay Code, Pay Category (Pay Code Description), Pay Code Amount, Work Cycle, Grade, Step, Degree, Hire\/Seniority Date, and Years Experience. \u00a0The total salary field should be included in each record and the information broken down by pay code for each employee.<\/p>\n In the past, when I have made this type of compensation request, you have arbitrarily excluded pay codes without either disclosing the excluded pay codes or justifying the claimed exemptions under Maryland\u2019s Public Information Act.\u00a0 I trust that this time you will both disclose and justify any excluded pay codes.\u00a0 If you refuse to disclose which pay codes you have excluded (which, of course, would also obviate the need for justifying particular pay code exclusions), please cite the Maryland Public Information Act provision that you claim allows you to do that.\u00a0 In past years, when you did provide all pay codes, there were a variety of other errors or omissions in what was provided, such as not identifying the FTE figure with the year of the compensation, that rendered the data unusable for analysis purposes. \u00a0I thank you for fixing those omissions (aka \u201cmistakes\u201d).<\/p>\n I hope that if this time AACPS does provide all the pay codes, one of the previous omissions that rendered the data useless won\u2019t crop up again.<\/p>\n Please charge me no more than the amount you have charged the Capital<\/em> or individual AACPS Board of Education members for copying similar records. My estimate is that the per se downloading of the requested records from your multi-million dollar payroll system should take one of your payroll experts no more than a few seconds.\u00a0 Forwarding them to you as an email attachment should then take only a few more seconds.<\/p>\n Please email me the requested data as an email attachment.<\/p>\n If you deny any part of this request, please cite each specific Public Information Act exemption that justifies your denial of the information. As you know, Maryland law specifies that public employee compensation is public information.<\/p>\n Your fulfillment, in good faith and within the thirty calendar days required by the Public Information Act, would be appreciated.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n J.H. Snider, Editor J.H. Snider\u2019s Public Information Act correspondence from June 28, 2019 to July 18, 2019 seeking FY2019 Unit 1 (“teacher”) salaries from the Anne Arundel County Public Schools for an op-ed that ran July 19, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anne-arundel-county-public-schools","category-public-information-act-request"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nSent:<\/strong> Thursday, July 25, 2019 9:48 AM
\nTo:<\/strong> ‘J.H. Snider’
\nSubject:<\/strong> RE: Public Information Act Request<\/p>\n
\nChief Communications Officer
\nAnne Arundel County Public Schools
\nPhone: 410-222-5312
\nWeb: www.aacps.org<\/a>
\nFacebook: www.facebook.com\/aacps<\/a>
\nTwitter: @AACountySchools
\nInstagram: AACountySchools<\/p>\n
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\nSent:<\/strong> Thursday, July 18, 2019 9:21 AM
\nTo:<\/strong> ‘Mosier, Bob’ <RMOSIER@AACPS.org>
\nSubject:<\/strong> RE: Public Information Act Request<\/p>\n
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\nSent:<\/strong> Tuesday, July 2, 2019 5:01 PM
\nTo:<\/strong> ‘Mosier, Bob’ <RMOSIER@AACPS.org<\/a>>
\nSubject:<\/strong> RE: Public Information Act Request<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Code \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Code Description<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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\nSent:<\/strong> Tuesday, July 2, 2019 8:14 AM
\nTo:<\/strong> \u2018J.H. Snider\u2019
\nSubject:<\/strong> RE: Public Information Act Request<\/p>\n
\nChief Communications Officer
\nAnne Arundel County Public Schools
\nPhone: 410-222-5312
\nWeb: www.aacps.org<\/a>
\nFacebook: www.facebook.com\/aacps<\/a>
\nTwitter: @AACountySchools
\nInstagram: AACountySchools<\/p>\n
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\nSent:<\/strong> Friday, June 28, 2019 4:22 PM
\nTo:<\/strong> ‘Mosier, Bob’ <RMOSIER@AACPS.org>
\nSubject:<\/strong> Public Information Act Request<\/p>\n
\neLighthouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"