On May 14, 2026, Allen Independent School District (Allen ISD) delivered the first response to ALLENISD-PIA-002, the records request LION filed seeking documentation of the trustee sub-committee that selected the district’s Local School Library Advisory Council (LSLAC). The request was logged by the district as PIR 285-050126. The Local School Library Advisory Council is the parent-and-community panel required of every Texas school district under Texas Education Code §33.025, enacted by Senate Bill 13 (2025), to review and recommend library materials for the district’s campus collections.

The Texas Public Information Act (PIA) — Texas Government Code Chapter 552 — gives Texas residents the right to request public records from a governmental body and obligates the body to respond within statutory deadlines. ALLENISD-PIA-002 asked for six discrete categories of records tied to the LSLAC selection: the names of the sub-committee members, the date of their meeting, any Texas Open Meetings Act (TOMA) posted notice for that meeting, any scoring sheets or evaluation notes used to rank applicants, the applications themselves, and trustee-and-staff communications about the selection process between July 1 and September 22, 2025.

The May 14 production was 39 pages. Records were produced for the questions covering sub-committee membership, meeting date, the 82 applications received, and the narrowly read communications category. Two questions were marked “no responsive documents”:

• Q3 — any TOMA-compliant public notice posted for the September 5, 2025 LSLAC sub-committee meeting.
• Q4 — any scoring sheets, ranking matrices, evaluation forms, ballots, or written notes generated by the sub-committee in the course of selecting the LSLAC from the 82 applicants.

Four days later, on May 18, 2026, the district delivered a supplemental production labeled Q3 (files PT1 through PT5), totaling 495 pages, under the same PIR number (PIR 285-050126). That supplemental production is documented in a separate update.

LION founder Jesse LeVasseur said the first-response markings on Q3 and Q4 are the facts to record at this stage. The audit of what the 39 pages do and do not establish, and what the May 18 supplemental added or walked back, is documented separately in LION’s working file for Allen ISD.

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