NHCS board committee advances policy changes on public records, ethics, and academic contracts
Summary
On Wednesday, the New Hanover County school board’s policy committee met to discuss possible upcoming changes to policies on board ethics, public records, and student academic contracts. A notable change is that the board might decrease the threshold for hourly charges for records requests from four hours to two. However, legal experts have said the law is relatively straightforward; relevant requests would have to be so burdensome that without additional IT or clerical support, the agency wouldn't be able to respond ‘promptly.’