“…the Department is not in possession of any public record(s) responsive to the above-written request.”
—May 9 Reply from the Department of Education’s legal department in response to LouisianaVoice public records request of April 22 in which we asked for “the official letter or email that you (Superintendent of Education John White) sent to inBloom to cancel the data storage agreement” as quoted in the Monroe News-Star report.
“White said he’ll send the certified letter to inBloom, but he said he’s sent several letters already notifying the organization that Louisiana’s data-sharing had ended.”
—Excerpt from Melinda Deslatte’s Associated Press story of June 20 in which White told the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) that he had terminated the Jan. 13 contract with inBloom.
Louisiana Voice 
White went to the Jindal “Open and Accountable” training school. He was valedictorian.
Thank you for your tenacity and passion in pursuing information that we Louisiana Citizens have the right to know.