School system mistakenly releases names of students, staff with COVID

Jim McConnell reports:

The local school system failed to properly redact personal information from a document requested through the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, inadvertently releasing to a parent last week the names of all Chesterfield County Public Schools students and employees who have reported testing positive for COVID-19.

Chesterfield resident Grace Olsen, the mother of a CCPS student, had asked for the number of students who have been required to quarantine as a result of exposure to the coronavirus in Chesterfield schools.

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