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Public Records Act Request — Superintendent Transition (45 items)

Prudence Wyman (LBUSD parent) · Prudence Wyman

Author
Published:
2026-05-18
Retrieved:
2026-06-03
URL:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/146O1XLd7J00d9upz8RNxRITN1e0OewuK/view

The actual 33-page California Public Records Act request linked from Erika Rule's June 3, 2026 article. AUTHORSHIP: the request is dated May 18, 2026 and is authored and signed by Prudence ('Prue') Wyman, an LBUSD parent — not Rule, whose article reports on it. Addressed to Executive Assistant Victoria Webber c/o Acting Superintendent Manoj Roychowdhury. The request is built from the District's own adopted board policies and seeks the records that would show whether the May 12 (3-2 special-meeting closed-session termination of Jason Glass) and May 14 (3-2 closed-session appointment of Don Austin) actions complied with them. Each item asks the District to state in writing where no responsive records exist, so a 'no records' answer is itself evidence a step was skipped. This is a records request, not a response: no records have been produced, and the policy-compliance questions are the requester's allegations, not findings.

Key points

  • Authored and signed by Prudence ('Prue') Wyman, LBUSD parent, dated May 18, 2026; Rule's June 3 article reports on it (the request is Wyman's, not Rule's).
  • Built from LBUSD's own adopted policies: BP 2120 (selection), BP 2121 (no without-cause termination at a special meeting), BP 2140 (annual evaluation), BP 4136/4236/4336 (outside employment, re: Austin's SimpleWins), BP 1100/1112 (communications), BB 9005/9010/9011/9012/9270/9321, plus Resolution 21-20 (Conflict of Interest Code).
  • Surfaces Board President Sheri Morgan's May 14, 2026 9:43 a.m. written statement that the closed-session agenda was 'originally incorrect' and was corrected by the District's legal team.
  • Quotes Howard Hills's May 14 open-session remarks (that the Board President speaks 'on behalf of the district,' recounting governance-meeting legal advice from 'Mr. Danforth') and argues the open-session disclosure may have waived attorney-client privilege on that advice.
  • Devotes items 38-45 to the May 14 meeting recording — the original unedited version, any edited versions, what was removed, and who authorized edits.
  • Reverse-vets Austin: seeks 2025 Leadership Associates search records referencing him, references from Palo Alto USD / Palos Verdes Peninsula USD / Huntington Beach Union HS, and the terms (including any non-disparagement clause) of his prior-employer separations.
  • Documents the District's outside-counsel transition from Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo to Dannis Woliver Kelley, and includes a notice against retaliation toward LBUSD senior staff during the request's pendency.

Cited by 2 events

  1. Rule publishes superintendent-transition critique and a 45-item Public Records Act request

    The underlying document behind Rule's June 3 article: the actual 33-page, 45-item PRA request, signed by parent Prudence Wyman and dated May 18, 2026. Built from the District's own adopted policies; a records request, not a response.

  2. Board appoints Dr. Don Austin as next superintendent

    I will bring forward your concerns about the agenda as I circled back several times as I noted originally it was incorrect, and had our legal team direct staff accordingly.

    Quoted in the Wyman PRA (item 32) from Board President Sheri Morgan's written reply of May 14, 2026, 9:43 a.m. — an acknowledgment that the closed-session agenda for the appointment meeting was 'originally incorrect' and was corrected by counsel. The PRA seeks the original and corrected agendas and metadata; the characterization is the requester's.