Posted below is the attachment of the ruling from Indiana Public Access Counsel concerning a complaint filed against the Vanderburgh County School Board by Ann Ennis
my response:
“If no journalists can do anything to notify the public that EVSC ignores repeated Indiana Public Access Counsel advisory opinions and its requests for information, then that is the end of it.
“I have worked inside and outside to open up various EVSC hidden processes for 8 years. This is the end of all I can try to do.
“Also please note that I learned about the great work of the Indiana Public Access Counsel from Patrick Shoulders, EVSC legal counsel when he referred me to contact the agency about EVSC’s use of Executive sessions during 2018-2020 (pre-COVID). Shoulders referred me to seek advice from the IN PAC when I was trying to reduce EVSC trustee’s habit of avoiding public dialogue, and regular and lengthy Executive Sessions (aka secret meetings with no notes).
“Absent one or several journalistic explorations of 1) my complaints, 2) the IN PAC response, and 3) the EVSC ignoring the IN PAC — then transparency has been lost upon Vanderburgh County’s largest budget (EVSC) and for the governing body of that budget: the EVSC board of trustees,†said Ann Ennis former EVSC trustee, and local and state public education advocate since 2008.
