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Sources

Documents, links, and evidence to support other writing on this site.

FOIA Request/Response Emails | Sept 27, 2023   See Source

09-28-2023

FOIA Response Letter | Sept 27, 2023   See Source

09-28-2023

This is a copy of the Decatur Vote Fact Sheet on September 15th, 2023. All of the 2023-08-23-bus facts (and most documents) have been added to this sheet.   See Source

09-15-2023

Herald & Review Article regarding August 23rd, 2023 Bus incident. I have a PDF copy saved offline, and it is available on archive.org.   See Source

09-15-2023

If the online video gets deleted, I have an offline copy.   See Source

09-15-2023

Judici Court record for Ticket # 174382   See Source

09-15-2023

This document was obtained through a FOIA Request submitted to the Decatur Police Department, and received on August 31st from Diane Beggs.   See Source

09-15-2023

A 'Uniform School Bus Accident Report' to be sent to the Regional Office of Education.   See Source

09-15-2023

This citation was received from Decatur Public Schools District 61 as part of a FOIA request.   See Source

09-15-2023

This document is an email thread regarding the August 23rd, 2023 Decatur bus incident, obtained through FOIA   See Source

09-15-2023

This document lists the names of bus drivers assigned to each bus/route for DPS61/Alltown.   See Source

09-15-2023

Response Letter for Aug 29, 2023 Decatur Bus Foia Request   See Source

09-15-2023

This is the email thread of the request and replies. I also replied to her request for a read-receipt, but did not include that email here.   See Source

09-15-2023

These are my (Reed Sutman) personal notes from the September 12th Board of Education Meeting. They were taken during the meeting. I left as the consent calendar agenda item was beginning, so these include district highlights, public participation, and reports from administration. These notes have...   See Source

09-13-2023

PDF Copy of Sept 12, 2023 BOE Speech. Note that some of the links in the PDF copy are broken. This is a technical error on my end. For any broken links, replace 'http://localhost:port' with 'https://www.decaturvote.com'.   See Source

09-12-2023

A September 7th email sent to Denise Swarthout, CCing Dr. Clark, Kent Metzger, and the Board of Education.   See Source

09-08-2023

HLS-related Digital Maintenance Requests for Dennis/Mosaic from 2017-2023. These are pulled from the spreadsheet of all DMRs from 2017-2023 for Dennis/Mosaic.   See Source

09-07-2023

Fact Sheet for Dennis/Mosaic Maintenance Requests Article   See Source

09-07-2023

Email to Denise Swarthout about Dennis Digital Maintenance Requests   See Source

09-07-2023

Email with Kent Metzger about Dennis Digital Maintenance Requests   See Source

09-07-2023

This source was previously uploaded to https://www.decaturvote.com/source/d05721e6-4c09-11ee-840e-3cecef1afd37/ and background information is available there.   See Source

09-07-2023

This .ods spreadsheet is a combination of four .xls spreadsheets received from the District on August 25th, 2023. These spreadsheets were originally received from the District as part of an August 2 FOIA Requests/August 16th FOIA Response. However, those were PDF files. Regarding a July 10th FOIA...   See Source

09-07-2023

Ai Generated Transcript of September 5, 2023 DPS61 Finance Committee Meeting. Contains errors.   See Source

09-06-2023

These are my personal notes. They are not vetted for accuracy or thoroughness. They were taken during the meeting on 9-5-2023.   See Source

09-06-2023

Video of the September 5th, 2023 Finance Committee Meeting, for DPS61   See Source

09-06-2023

Background: On August 16, 2023, I, Reed Sutman, received a FOIA response from Melissa Bradford with 4 PDF files of digital maintenance requests for MOSAIC campus from 2017-2023. I converted the PDFs to a spreadsheet using pdftoexcel.com, then added the ‘Notes’ and ‘LEAD Priority’ and SHEE...   See Source

09-05-2023

This is the response letter that I've sent to the Attorney General's office. I had submitted a Request for Review to the Public Access Counselor. District Attorney Luke Feeney responded. This letter is my response to Mr. Feeney's response.   See Source

09-01-2023

FOIA - Personnel - Doc 9b   See Source

08-24-2023

FOIA - Personnel - Doc 9a   See Source

08-24-2023