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PLSAS

The District's Own Records Are Having a Fight

Suspected suppression of maltreatment reporting, bad-faith Title IX investigative posture, and suspected record access and classification violations.

Some private identifying information has been redacted. Our redactions appear in red and are indexed inside each document. Any other redactions shown are part of the record as it was provided.

Redacted materials only. Native originals stay off the public table.

Updated June 26, 2026

PLSAS Emailed Again. The Receipt Got Preserved First.

Amazingly, PLSAS emailed us today. Not surprisingly, it was Mr. Robert Cothern. His prior responses have created a recurring accuracy problem, and the unresolved records universe made this one worth preserving before anyone had to spend the evening with it.

Here is the bet I would have been comfortable making before opening it:

  1. He did not provide the overdue record-request productions.
  2. He still did not acknowledge our May 18 data request, the one that will show whether the Title IX appeal denial was made without reviewing the underlying facts or after reviewing contradictory evidence. That matters because this is their Title IX Coordinator, the person charged with making sure complaints are handled fairly.

We are in too good of a mood to deal with him right now, so we preserved the Gmail-thread source, built public-redacted fake-native renders, and bundled the district message with the same-thread response draft. Tomorrow we can compare the record against actual reality. Tonight, Compliance Theater built the PDF and the receipt can speak for itself.

Start here

Start with the records that make the rest harder to unsee.

Date range6/17/26 - 6/26/26
Total pages185
Average smell8.9/10

Gmail-style render packet

PLSAS Emailed Again. The Receipt Got Preserved First.

Public-redacted fake-native Gmail renders preserving the June 25 PLSAS message and the same-thread response draft.

Date
2026-06-26
Pages
7
Smell
8.9/10
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Board email

The Board Got the Warning. Here's the Receipt.

A warning that the investigation record universe was collapsing under its own contradictions, paired with board receipt proof.

Date
2026-06-21
Pages
1
Smell
9.2/10
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Attached packet

The District Said Final. The Source Records Had Questions.

Source records, finality claims, and Title IX posture all meet in the same dark hallway.

Date
2026-06-21
Pages
10
Smell
9.5/10
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Board email

The Records Could Not All Be True at Once.

The board was told the maintained records could not all be true at once, and the receipt trail says the message arrived.

Date
2026-06-17
Pages
1
Smell
9.3/10
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Attached packet

A Three-Page Tour of "That Can't Both Be True."

The board was put on notice that the district's represented record universe appears to contain mutually incompatible facts.

Date
2026-06-17
Pages
3
Smell
9.4/10
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Board email

Who Touched the Student Records, and Under What Rule?

A simple question with ugly implications: who accessed student records, under what posted category, and where is the basis?

Date
2026-06-18
Pages
1
Smell
8.9/10
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Attached packet

The "Show Your FERPA Work" Packet.

A notice asking the district to identify the actual FERPA/MGDPA category mapping it relied on before records kept moving.

Date
2026-06-18
Pages
4
Smell
8.8/10
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Board email

The "Surely Someone Logged This" Email.

Contractor, counsel, FERPA, and disclosure-log reliance all collide in one tidy little governance headache.

Date
2026-06-20
Pages
1
Smell
8.8/10
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Attached packet

Routine Handling, Mysterious Disclosure Log.

A disclosure-log and access-basis problem dressed up as routine contractor/counsel handling.

Date
2026-06-20
Pages
5
Smell
8.9/10
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Board email

They Sent the Record Universe. Then We Read It.

A June 11 records response becomes a board-level problem once the district is held to the universe it represented.

Date
2026-06-20
Pages
1
Smell
8.4/10
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Attached packet

The Data-Practices Posture Needed Adult Supervision.

A response-role accountability notice for the part where the district's data-practices posture needed adult supervision.

Date
2026-06-20
Pages
5
Smell
8.3/10
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Clarification record

We Offered a Cure Path. The Paper Trail Got Quiet.

A cure path was offered. The paper trail is quieter than one would hope after that.

Date
2026-06-23
Pages
4
Smell
7.6/10
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Attached packet

The Waiting Room for Simple Answers.

The pending/timing half of the status tracker, redacted for child PII and sensitive assault-context references.

Date
2026-06-23
Pages
18
Smell
8.5/10
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Attached packet

The Red-Box Guide to Waiting.

The active elapsed-status guide from the June 23 tracker, using red-box PDF redactions for postable release.

Date
2026-06-23
Pages
13
Smell
8.6/10
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Annotated investigation records

The Reports Are Redacted. The Problems Are Not.

The District investigated itself, preserved the redactions, and somehow the black boxes are not the worst part.

Date
2026-06-25
Pages
9
Smell
9.7/10
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Release packet

Administrator of the Year, Somehow.

Training, correction, and response records showing how basic Title IX and maltreatment obligations got treated as optional paperwork.

Date
2026-06-23
Pages
62
Smell
9.6/10
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Emily bundle

Nothing To See Here, Apparently.

The record is accurate, everything responsive has been provided, the complaint is dismissed. Nothing to see here, apparently.

Date
2026-06-23
Pages
9
Smell
9.1/10
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Attached packet

Thirty-One Pages of "This Could Be Easy."

Our current pending PLSAS request list. Each row is either a correction request or a small, scoped records request, and for most rows the expected answer may simply be a request-specific no-records response.

Date
2026-06-23
Pages
31
Smell
8.7/10
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