AF Amistad High School Family Handbook 2017-2018 | 30 AFAHS is committed to providing quality instruction for all students and does so by employing the most qualified individuals to teach and support each student in the classroom. Please feel free to contact the school if you wish to receive this information or if you have any questions. Public Documents / Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Achievement First fully complies with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Any requests for school records or information from the school must be in writing and submitted to the principal or to his/her designee(s). Within five business days of receipt of a written request, the school, depending on the requested information, responds by: Making the information available at the school itself during normal business hours to the person requesting it; Denying the request in writing; or Providing a written acknowledgment of receipt of the request that supplies an approximate date for when the request will be granted or denied. If the person requesting information is denied access to a record, he/she may, within 30 days, appeal such denial to the principal or to his/her designee(s). Upon timely receipt of such an appeal, the school, within 10 business days of the receipt of the appeal, fully explains the reasons for further denial or provides access to the record(s) sought. The school also forwards a copy of the appeal, as well as its ultimate determination, to the Committee on Open Government. If further denied, the person requesting information may further appeal through an Article 78 proceeding. The school may deny access to requested records if: o Such records are specifically exempted from disclosure by state or federal statute; o Such access would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; o Such records, if disclosed, would impair present or imminent contract awards or collective bargaining negotiations; o Such records are trade secrets and which, if disclosed, would cause substantial injury to the competitive position of a commercial enterprise; o Such records are compiled for law enforcement purposes for which disclosure is precluded by state or federal law; o Such records, if disclosed, would endanger the life or safety of any person; o Such records are computer access codes; and/or o Such records are internal materials which are not statistical or factual tabulations of data, instructions to staff that affect the public, a final policy, nor external audits. The school may charge a copying fee for each page requested to be copied. The fee can be no more than the fee allowed by state law.