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Grand Prairie man requested public records -- and got $406,386 bill from school district [View all]
The request is overly vague and would take employees more than 22,000 hours to fulfill, Grand Prairie ISD saysMalcom Chakery is no stranger to Grand Prairie politics.
Chakery is editor of the online Grand Prairie News and founder of a 26,000-member Facebook page dedicated to all things Grand Prairie.
He is also a frequent critic of the school board for Grand Prairie ISD, where his two children attend school.
So when Chakery received an anonymous tip about a discrimination complaint involving a district employee, he shot off a public information request.
The school district’s reply? The records would cost Chakery $406,386.
“Receiving that cost estimate wasn’t all that shocking. Disappointing, yes, but in past dealings with Grand Prairie ISD, I have come to expect curveballs,” Chakery told The Dallas Morning News.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2022/06/30/grand-prairie-man-requested-public-records-and-got-406386-bill-from-school-district/
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