Monday, December 17, 2012
Parsippany resident appeals OPRA request denial for board member's electronic correspondences.
A citizen-activist's appeal of a Parsippany school district Open Public Records Act request hasn't been answered yet, but the process itself reveals a bit of the information he seeks. In September, Robert Crawford, a former Board of Education member, made an official request to discover what was said in emails allegedly sent in 2011 and 2012 by school board member Anthony Mancuso and to whom they were sent. Mancuso would not comment on the matter of the documents, which allegedly were sent from his personal email address, except to insist that they were personal communications. Crawford contended that the emails, which he believes include discussions of confidential board business between board members including Superintendent of Schools …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Michael Strumolo still demands to have access to what colleague Anthony Mancuso calls his private emails.
The issue over emails written by a Parsippany Board of Education member—deemed not to be public government documents by the district last week—was still on the minds of some at the body's meeting last Thursday. Early in the gathering, BOE member Michael Strumolo revived last month's call to be allowed to see the documents written and shared by member Anthony Mancuso. Addressing Board Attorney Kathleen Gilfillan, Strumolo again insisted that "as a duly elected member of this board, I have the right to see these emails." Gilfillan, as she did in October, said that board members do not have an automatic right to see every document that resides on the BOE computer server. "To the extent that these records do not represent something that the …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
School board member Anthony Mancuso said Robert Crawford's activities regarding his 'private' communications invaded his privacy.
The author of the so-called "secret" emails sought by citizen-activist Robert Crawford says he isn't surprised that what he calls "private" communications were deemed by the school district not to be government documents. School board member Anthony Mancuso, concluding that his personal privacy was invaded, said he is talking with an attorney and considering taking legal action. "The whole thing raises questions for me," Mancuso told Patch. "These documents were found to be un-OPRA-able. Mr. Crawford clearly has seen them. How did he obtain them?" In September, Crawford made an Open Public Records Act request to the school district inquiring about a number of emails that came from Mancuso's personal email address. Crawford, a former Board …
VietNam Vet
1:18 am on Thursday, December 27, 2012
I happen to think that stopping the corruption on the board is school business, and would be a savings to the taxpayers in this town that really give a damn. more ›