A public school teacher in Fairfax County is suing her school district for withholding public records mentioning her name.
Julie Perry, a history teacher at Centreville High School in Northern Virginia, filed a Freedom of Information Act request on May 29 for emails from Assistant Superintendent Penny Gros because she felt like her job was threatened after a controversial tweet about the transgender community targeting autistic kids.
The district produced only one document, but Perry knew something was missing.
Nine months earlier, Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak had submitted a request for documents containing Perry’s name. Rosiak received 14 documents mentioning Perry, thirteen of which were withheld from Perry’s request.
Now, Perry is suing the district demanding it hand over all documents related to her FOIA request, pay a civil penalty, and pay Perry’s…
