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They Said The Records Didn't Exist | Carol Beth Litkouhi
Carol Beth Litkouhi is a Rochester Community Schools board trustee who asked a simple question: what are kids actually learning in the new ethnic and gender studies class? After filing an FOIA request, she was told no records existed. She appealed but they stayed silent…
Now she's in the middle of a First Amendment lawsuit.
We got into:
→ Why parents were are pulling their kids from Rochester schools
→ The FOIA loophole that let a district claim curriculum didn't exist
→ What "the board speaks with one voice" costs voters
→ How a bylaw about confidential information got used to punish public speech
Carol Beth, thank you for making the time to come on and walk through all of this!
*Chapters*
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Who Carol Beth Is and What Set This Off
05:00 Running for School Board in 2022
09:20 What the Campaign Was Actually Like
12:00 Why Enrollment Was Declining
16:00 The Ethnic and Gender Studies Class and the FOIA Fight
19:00 Taking It to Court With the Mackinac Center
21:30 The Loophole in the Statute
32:00 The Academic Freedom Clause and What It Signals
35:00 The Tax Proposal and the Censure
41:00 What the Board Did Next
49:00 The Role of a Trustee and Who They're Accountable To
56:00 The First Amendment Lawsuit
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This episode is brought to you by Fausone & Grysko, PLC
https://www.thefgfirm.law/
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By Brandon GryskoCarol Beth Litkouhi is a Rochester Community Schools board trustee who asked a simple question: what are kids actually learning in the new ethnic and gender studies class? After filing an FOIA request, she was told no records existed. She appealed but they stayed silent…
Now she's in the middle of a First Amendment lawsuit.
We got into:
→ Why parents were are pulling their kids from Rochester schools
→ The FOIA loophole that let a district claim curriculum didn't exist
→ What "the board speaks with one voice" costs voters
→ How a bylaw about confidential information got used to punish public speech
Carol Beth, thank you for making the time to come on and walk through all of this!
*Chapters*
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Who Carol Beth Is and What Set This Off
05:00 Running for School Board in 2022
09:20 What the Campaign Was Actually Like
12:00 Why Enrollment Was Declining
16:00 The Ethnic and Gender Studies Class and the FOIA Fight
19:00 Taking It to Court With the Mackinac Center
21:30 The Loophole in the Statute
32:00 The Academic Freedom Clause and What It Signals
35:00 The Tax Proposal and the Censure
41:00 What the Board Did Next
49:00 The Role of a Trustee and Who They're Accountable To
56:00 The First Amendment Lawsuit
~~~
This episode is brought to you by Fausone & Grysko, PLC
https://www.thefgfirm.law/