FOAA Request Reveals That Conditional Gifts Are Authorized in Funding the Innovation of the Boothbay Peninsula Public School System

Despite all denials- It's in the record that donations for public education can be conditional!

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A short while ago I sent an FOAA request to Boothbay School Superintendent Robert Kahler requesting the identity of the anonymous donors that financed the architects to design the school.

This is the answer that I received: from Superintendent Khaler:

I am writing to follow up with you regarding your FOAA request dated 17 January 2023. In response to your request, the District will not be producing records that are designated confidential by statute (1 M.R.S.A. 402(3)(a)) or records which are otherwise privileged or confidential (including communications that are protected by the attorney-client privilege or work product doctrines). I am attaching with this email the public records otherwise responsive to your request, which will complete the Districts response to your request.
Sincerely, Robert M. Kahler, Superintendent of Schools, AOS 98

Mr. Kahler opens with what the District will not produce, rather than what they are producing, setting the tone of the communi…