On June 5, 2026, a second clarification request was transmitted from Allen Independent School District (Allen ISD) covering six pending Public Information Act requests filed by LION on May 4, 2026 — ALLENISD-PIA-003 through ALLENISD-PIA-008. The transmission invoked Texas Government Code §552.261, subsection (e), the Texas Public Information Act’s (PIA — Texas Government Code Chapter 552) same-day aggregation provision. That provision lets a governmental body treat two or more requests received from the same requestor within one calendar day as a single request for purposes of calculating costs under Chapter 552. Section 552.261(e) is a cost-aggregation tool, not a clarification authority; clarification of requests is governed by a separate statute, §552.222. The June 5 transmission also re-invoked §552.222(b), the statute’s clarification-and-narrowing provision, which the district had first invoked on May 18.
The June 5 transmission asked LION to clarify four points:
- The intent and scope of the severance LION had requested in its June 1 response.
- Whether the modified request was now limited to ALLENISD-PIA-003, PIA-005, PIA-006, and PIA-007.
- Whether ALLENISD-PIA-004 and PIA-008 should be considered withdrawn.
- Other points raised in LION’s June 1 response.
A clarification request under §552.222 tolls the §552.221 production clock until the requestor responds. Under §552.222(d), if the requestor does not respond within 61 days of the clarification request, the underlying request is deemed withdrawn. Both clocks restarted with the June 5 transmission. The procedural consequence is that the production timeline for PIA-003 through PIA-008 is again indeterminate while the clarification cycle runs.
The six requests at issue cover the Local School Library Advisory Council (LSLAC — the parent-majority committee required under Texas Education Code §33.025, enacted by Senate Bill 13 in 2025) selection process, LSLAC meeting records and recordings, internal communications referencing LION, and Library Media Services records relating to assembly of the district’s 818-title May 26 board-vote list. All six were originally filed on May 4, 2026, and have been in clarification posture since May 18.
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