Arizona AG Sues School Board That Allegedly Had Dossier on Outspoken Parents
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Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich has filed a lawsuit against the Scottsdale Unified School District after the school board allegedly violated open meeting law by curbing public comment about proposed mask mandates and other topics at board meetings.
The lawsuit comes after the Daily Caller first reported that former school board president Jann-Michael Greenburg had editing access to a Google Drive dossier on outspoken parents in the district. The document, allegedly created by Greenburg’s father, included personal pictures, social security numbers and information about a divorce proceeding and financial records. It includes folders titled, “SUSD Wackos,” “Press Conference Psychos,” and “Anti Mask Lunatics,” according to the Daily Caller.
The school board voted 4-1 to oust Greenburg from his role of board president after the dossier came to light.
Now Brnovich’s suit looks to have Greenburg removed from the board entirely and to impose civil penalties against the entire board, accusing members of “knowingly structuring an agenda and meeting so as to prohibit public comment about a proposed mask mandate and other subjects within the jurisdiction of the SUSD Governing Board,” according to a press release.
Brnovich also accused board members of “knowingly applying unauthorized content-based restrictions on public comment made during a board meeting, and knowingly cutting off or otherwise interrupting speakers during a call to the public.”
“SUSD manipulated public input and silenced the voices of parents in order to advance its own agenda,” Brnovich said in a statement. “This type of bad school behavior demands expulsion.”
The district has denied that it violated open meeting law.
