19 September 2014
HAND DELIVERED
Salt Lake City Police Department
Service Desk
475 South 300 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Re: GRAMA: Police Report
Dear SLCPD Service Desk,
Pursuant to Government Records Access Management Act (GRAMA), Utah Code §63g-2-204:
I am requesting a copy of the police report in reference to Shirley Canham a former employee of the Salt Lake City School District. Specifically, she worked at Uintah Elementary School located at 1571 East 1300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105 as the manager of Child Nutrition.
The School Board has been investigating an incident that occurred at Uintah Elementary on January 28, 2014, where school lunches were taken from children by child nutrition personnel and discarded in a garbage can. Following that event, the Board of Education commissioned an external investigation that was recently made public (see attached cover sheet).
At the September 2, 2014, School Board meeting (see enclosed minutes) one of the schools patrons reported that “the Salt Lake City Police Department [went to the] school when students, parents, and teachers were present, to ask their lunch lady to go down to the Police Department for questioning.”
I was later told that the police went to the school (see address above) on April 25, 2014 and took Shirley Canham to the police department for questioning. This incident was not mentioned in the external investigation commissioned by the Board of Education. The school district personnel have given conflicting and unreliable information as to why an employee of the school district was taken by the police. As an elected member of the Board of Education, I am attempting to understand the scope of the Salt Lake City Police department’s involvement in the incident of lunches being discarded by school personnel.
Shalom,
J. Michael Clára
Board Member, District 2
Enclosures (4) –Including Records Request Form and check #7075 in the amount of $5.09