Agenda Item
1. Review Recommendations, Board Comments, Public Comments for any Ready for Action and/or First Read Policies
Summary: Presented by Mrs. Vickie B. Turner, Committee Chair
Ms. Mariel Smith, Attorney at Law, Hall Booth Smith, P.C.
Mrs. Marissa Key, Executive Director of Legal Affairs, Division of Legal Services
Board Policy Manual
DeKalb County School District
Board Policy BE: School Board Records Status: ADOPTED
Original Adopted Date: 09/11/2000 | Last Reviewed Date: 09/11/2000
PUBLIC RECORDS, INSPECTION AND REPRODUCTION OF
MISSION: To ensure the confidentiality of all records deemed to be personal in nature and to ensure public access
to records of legal entitlement.
All school system records, except those which by order of a court, or by law, or which may invade individual privacy,
shall be open for personal inspection by any interested member of the public at a reasonable time and place by
advance appointment only.
Requests for access to school system public records shall be made through the Superintendent’s office where a
determination shall be made within three business days or less whether the records requested are accessible under
this policy.
Examples of records deemed to be accessible include financial records (exclusive of individual payroll records),
purchase orders, bid sheets, specifications for purchases, budgets, and minutes of official meetings of the DeKalb
County Board of Education.
Examples of records deemed not the accessible due to possible invasion of privacy include an employee’s home
address, telephone number, work station, salary, marital status, evaluations, recommendations, other personnel file
data, and student records and rosters.
The Superintendent shall establish procedures to make public records available and shall establish reasonable costs
for collecting and reproducing such records.