Pursuant to the Indiana Access to Public Records Act, I.C. § 5-14-3, I am requesting electronic copies of records concerning the creation, advertisement, selection process, and hiring of Hannah Webster for an internship with the City of North Vernon Parks and Recreation Department.
Please provide the following records:
- The job description, internship description, qualifications, expected duties, work schedule, start and end dates, hourly rate, maximum authorized hours, and total amount budgeted for the position.
- Records identifying the source of funding for the internship, including the city department, fund, grant, appropriation, or other funding source used to pay the intern.
- Any public notice, job posting, advertisement, social-media post, website listing, flyer, or other recruitment material used to advertise the internship before a candidate was selected.
- Records showing where and when the internship was advertised, including the dates each posting was published and removed.
- Any written city policy, Parks Department policy, or standard procedure governing the advertisement, application, interview, selection, and approval of interns.
- Any city policy concerning nepotism, conflicts of interest, preferential hiring, or the hiring of relatives of current or former city employees and department heads.
- Records showing the number of people who applied for the internship, the number interviewed, and the dates of any interviews. If the city maintains a list of applicants or interviewees, please provide it.
- Any applications, résumés, cover letters, or other materials submitted by the selected candidate. Personal contact information and other legally protected information may be redacted.
- Any interview questions, evaluation forms, scoring sheets, rankings, rubrics, notes, recommendations, or other records used to compare or evaluate candidates.
- Any offer letter, appointment record, employment agreement, hiring form, or approval record concerning Hannah Webster’s internship. Personal contact information and other legally protected information may be redacted.
- Records identifying the individual or individuals who recommended, selected, approved, or authorized the hiring of Hannah Webster.
- Any agendas, minutes, memoranda, or other records showing whether the internship or the selected candidate was discussed or approved by the Parks Board, Board of Works, City Council, mayor’s office, or any other city official or governing body.
- Emails, text messages, and other written communications sent or received by the parks director, mayor, mayor’s office, clerk-treasurer’s office, Parks Board members, or other city employees concerning:
- the creation of the internship;
- the decision to offer a paid internship;
- the recruitment or consideration of applicants;
- Hannah Webster’s application, recommendation, selection, or hiring; and
- the source of funding for the position.
For item 13, please search records created or received between January 1, 2026, and the date this request is fulfilled.
I am not requesting Social Security numbers, bank information, home addresses, personal telephone numbers, or other legally protected personal information. Please redact any protected information and provide the remainder of each responsive record.
If any responsive record is withheld in whole or in part, please identify the specific statutory basis for each withholding or redaction. If no responsive record exists for any numbered item, please state that no responsive record exists.
Please provide the records electronically by email.
The Indiana Public Access Counselor has been copied on this request due to prior difficulties obtaining timely and complete responses to public-records requests submitted to the City of North Vernon. The PAC is copied for documentation purposes and to help ensure that this request is processed in accordance with Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act.
Thank you.
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