IBATA v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF EDWARDSVILLE

No. 5-05-0092.

851 N.E.2d 658 (2006)

Brent IBATA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF EDWARDSVILLE COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 7; Edwardsville Community Unit School District No. 7; Tueth, Keeney, Cooper, Mohan and Jackstadt P.C.; and Merry Rhoades, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

May 12, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brent Ibata, Glen Carbon, pro se.

Robert L. Jackstadt, Elizabeth J. Mooney, Tueth, Keeney, Cooper, Mohan & Jackstadt, P.C., Edwardsville, for Appellees Board of Education of Edwardsville Community Unit School Dist. No. 7 & Edwardsville Community Unit School Dist. No. 7.

A.J. Bronsky, Agota Peterfy, Brown & James, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Appellees Merry Rhoades and Tueth, Keeney, Cooper, Mohan & Jackstadt, P.C.

Karen I. Ward, Sarah E. Price, Equip for Equality, Inc., Chicago, for Amicus Curiae.


Justice McGLYNN delivered the opinion of the court:

Brent Ibata is the father of a little girl who attended the early childhood special education program in Edwardsville Community Unit School District No. 7 (District) in 2003. After a parent/teacher conference and other visits to his daughter's classroom, Ibata became concerned and requested copies of his daughter's student records. After getting no response and renewing his request for his daughter's records verbally...

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