MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL CHIEF JUDITH JOHNSON WILLFULLY VIOLATES F.O.I.L. LAW

CORRUPT MT. VERNON SCHOOL CHIEF JUDITH JOHNSON

The administration of Interim Superintendent Judith Johnson continues to operate in an unscrupulous and unethical manner.  As previously reported by Mount Vernon Exposed, there is a massive cover up going on at the central office while public continues to be stonewalled with getting basic information. 

It appears that Judith Johnson plays by her own set of rules and does not believe in transparency and full disclosure.  Mount Vernon Exposed publisher Samuel L. Rivers requested documents through the NYS Freedom of Information Law or F.O.I.L.

A response was received from the district but the written correspondence from the district was not in line with the Freedom of Information Law.  The NYS Freedom of Information law states each entity subject to the provisions of this article, within five business days of the receipt of a written request for a record reasonably described, shall make such record available to the person requesting it, deny such request in writing or furnish a written acknowledgment of the receipt of such request and a statement of the approximate date, which shall be reasonable under the circumstances of the request, when such request will be granted or denied, including, where appropriate, a statement that access to the record will be determined in accordance with subdivision five of the Freedom of Information Law. 

The Freedom of Information Law further states; 3. (a) Each entity subject to the provisions of this article, within five business days of the receipt of a written request for a record reasonably described, shall make such record available to the person requesting it, deny such request in writing or furnish a written acknowledgment of the receipt of such request and a statement of the approximate date, which shall be reasonable under the circumstances of the request, when such request will be granted or denied, including, where appropriate, a statement that access to the record will be determined in accordance with subdivision five of this section. An agency shall not deny a request on the basis that the request is voluminous or that locating or reviewing the requested records or providing the requested copies is burdensome because the agency lacks sufficient staffing or on any other basis if the agency may engage an outside professional service to provide copying, programming or other services required to provide the copy, the costs of which the agency may recover pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section eighty-seven of this article. An agency may require a person requesting lists of names and addresses to provide a written certification that such person will not use such lists of names and addresses for solicitation or fund-raising purposes and will not sell, give or otherwise make available such lists of names and addresses to any other person for the purpose of allowing that person to use such lists of names and addresses for solicitation or fund-raising purposes. If an agency determines to grant a request in whole or in part, and if circumstances prevent disclosure to the person requesting the record or records within twenty business days from the date of the acknowledgement of the receipt of the request, the agency shall state, in writing, both the reason for the inability to grant the request within twenty business days and a date certain within a reasonable period, depending on the circumstances, when the request will be granted in whole or in part. Upon payment of, or offer to pay, the fee prescribed therefor, the entity shall provide a copy of such record and certify to the correctness of such copy if so requested, or as the case may be, shall certify that it does not have possession of such record or that such record cannot be found after diligent search. Nothing in this article shall be construed to require any entity to prepare any record not possessed or maintained by such entity except the records specified in subdivision three of section eighty-seven and subdivision three of section eighty-eight of this article. When an agency has the ability to retrieve or extract a record or data maintained in a computer storage system with reasonable effort, it shall be required to do so. When doing so requires less employee time than engaging in manual retrieval or redactions from non-electronic records, the agency shall be required to retrieve or extract such record or data electronically. Any programming necessary to retrieve a record maintained in a computer storage system and to transfer that record to the medium requested by a person or to allow the transferred record to be read or printed shall not be deemed to be the preparation or creation of a new record.

What is Judith Johnson hiding? Why is Judith stalling and stonewalling board members?  Why isn’t Judith giving the asbestos reports to school board trustees?

Judith Johnson has not worked in the best interest of the taxpayers since her inception in Mount Vernon. 

Will Judith do the taxpayers a favor and resign? Only time will tell.   

  MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL CHIEF JUDITH JOHNSON WILLFULLY VIOLATES F.O.I.L.