Laconia School Board Chair Aaron Hayward will have a pleasant surprise tomorrow morning given what I’m being told about the OTHER coverup that includes Laconia School Superintendent Steve Tucker.
The alleged retaliation against folks they believe wrote the anonymous letter complaining of a hostile workplace and cronyism.
Frankly, I’m surprised that Tucker kept it together as long as he did but I have been told, and have noticed, that he couldn’t carry this off by himself.
Aaron Hayward, currently the Associate Principal at the Belmont High School is not much better and, if I am to believe the little birdies tweeting in my ears, he’s a’hankering to move Districts. So he’s well up over his hair roots (long hair, short hair, take your pick) in this as well.
So, knowing that sometimes even smart people (not calling him smart, jus’ sayin’) can do stupid things at times, I just sent an RSA 91-A demand to the Shaker Regional School District School Board to get his emails over the last year. It’s not always possible to be perfect in possible malfeasances, so let’s see if we can find the exceptions on “being perfect”.
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A:4 (I) ), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the below enumerated governmental records Otherwise, if this cannot be fulfilled within the mandated 5 business day window per RSA 91-A, please advise when the Responsive Records will be made available.
This requests the emails in any email account(s) assigned to Belmont High School Associate Principal Aaron Hayward, as a result of his employment at Belmont High School, during the time period of January 1, 2021, through end of day, May 6, 2022.
The information for each responsive record (i.e., email) shall include:
- TO fields, FROM fields – all addresses
- CC fields, BCC fields – all addresses
- DATE fields
- SUBJECT field
- And the Body of the email itself.
Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.
As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016). Unless there is some reason that it is not reasonably practicable for you to produce these records in the requested format, I ask that you either do so or explain why it is not practicable for you to comply.
Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such responsive records. This also includes such responsive records (e.g., emails) which may have been deleted from respective In mailboxes/Sent mailboxes but are still available on the applicable email server or in your / email host’s backup system(s).
Please let me know when these records will be sent to me for inspection.
You may email the responsive records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume turns out to be substantial, I have already set up a Dropbox folder for all of your responsive records to which they can be uploaded
Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Skip Murphy
GraniteGrok.com
And in case anyone tips him off, I’ve already made it clear that the Law demands that all electronic records of a government entity MUST be held as long as any hardcopy ones they have in their possessions. Just don’t like to hear the lame excuse that “my dog ate the tape drive” schtick (or today’s version, I plugged the solid-state NAS drive into the 240V socket instead of the 120V) – judges will haul the IT folks to a certain spot in front of that high desk in that very special room.
The people and parents in Laconia are starting to wise up as to what is going on. Perhaps I’ll find some rotten tomatoes to pass on to them as they put Tucker and Hayward into the stocks.
And I’ll ask the question again: why isn’t the Laconia Daily Sun not abiding by The Journalist’s Maxim of “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” on this story as well? At least from Gunstock, they might be comped a free day pass. Here? Not much that I can think of.
