There is a potential for a serious problem within either the Board of Trustees or school management, faculty, or employees. This is not exaggeration nor a reason for ridicule.
On Saturday, January 10th, 2026 at 9:53 PM, I sent you an email entitled, "Schools Displaying 'The Librarians' Might Renew Bullying of Parents, Presenting Liability." I then published, "Schools Displaying 'The Librarians' Might Renew Bullying of Parents, Presenting Liability" at https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2026/01/schools-displaying-librarians.html .
What I sent you, and what eight other people sent you, was published, with only email addresses redacted, on the internet, in a post to a Facebook group called "Llano County News Wire." It exposed personally identifiable information on the TPIA responses. Ridicule ensued at the site, likely part of the reason or goal for the exposure. See: https://www.facebook.com/llanocountynewswire/posts/pfbid0jRsuKFgrr9jEMyLvYFUAxm8nHohD3CEkQvPYyUsXqwRKD3aVUf8XVoQ7N5k9spV3l or https://www.facebook.com/100063579010535/posts/1497987242330562/
By the way, in that comment by "Llano County News Wire," he/she does not merely report news but kickstarts the ridicule of the parents he/she just doxxed. He/she says, "Keep in mind most came from people living in other states or towns." So already the message is don't listen to us; that's not journalism. He/she leaves out that the American Library Association and nearly all of the contents of "The Librarians" comprise "people living in other states or towns." He/she uses it as a smear on parents writing to the school, while defending "people living in other states or towns" as shown in ALA's movie and with ALA policy all over the school that's causing the problems in the first place, the Library Bill of Rights, for example. ALA is from Chicago, Illinois. By the way, I'm in that movie, and you'll see me in the audience in New Jersey, right before school librarian Martha Hickson says, "fifth graders HAVE penises."
The emails exposed were on Saturday, January 10, 2026, from Susan Perez at 11:25 AM, Bonnie Wallace at 12:01 PM (who won the Little v. Llano County case and who is shown speaking in "The Librarians"), Ron Herrin at 4:30 PM, Dan Kleinman (myself who is seen in "The Librarians") at 8:54 PM. Also on Sunday, January 11, 2026, from Deborah Leimbach at 7:52 PM. Also on Monday, January 12, 2026, from Jackie Cherico at 2:12 PM, Mary Moore at 5:36 PM. Also on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, from Teri Hubbard at 7:04 AM, Larry Huston at 7:32 AM. So the most recently exposed was from Larry Huston on Tuesday, January 13, at 7:32 AM. Some of those people were doxxed.
They were then published on the internet at "Llano County News Wire" on Friday, January 16, at 9:03 PM. That leaves a gap of a little over three and a half days, assuming someone knew to file a TPIA request on Tuesday morning.
In Texas, TPIA / FOIA requests take time. A sample form can be found at NFOIC here: https://www.nfoic.org/texas-sample-foia-request/ where it reads, "The Texas Public Information Act requires that you 'promptly produce' the requested records unless, within 10 days, you have sought an Attorney General’s Opinion." In my experience, that almost always means you'll get a response, if any, on day ten.
The need for the TPIA request to produce emails I submitted and did not otherwise announce publicly was somehow instantly identified. Then the TPIA request was submitted in record time. And the records were turned over in absolute record time. Then they were published. All that in in a mere three and a half days. It's impossible without someone on the lookout and someone greasing the wheels, someone from inside Llano ISD.
I don't believe that super fast timeline is possible were it done honestly. Someone within the school is ratting out the parents to subject them to bullying and ridicule. In a case where I showed strong evidence that the showing of "The Librarians" may result in continued serious bullying of a parent who needed round-the-clock police protection, now I'm getting bullied by how the school reacted to multiple emails from parents opposing the showing of "The Librarians." To me, Llano ISD is using bullying to smear my reporting "The Librarians" they intend to show in the school is itself bullying another parent. It's bullying to protect bullying, with both people being bullied trying to stop children from being harmed by school librarians.
As I said before, there is a potential for a serious problem within either the Board of Trustees or school management, faculty, or employees.
As if knowing something is off and in an apparent effort to allay concerns, "Llano County Wire News" responds to someone suggesting, "Mac Edwards forwards the emails to Tom and the liberals," with the following on Saturday, January 17 at 9:20 AM, "FOIA request. Freedom of information act. They were not forwarded to anyone. They are required by law to respond to a FOIA request".
In my over twenty five years investigating schools and libraries, never has a FOIA requestor ever been tipped off so fast and the FOIA response provided so quickly, then published, then used to ridicule and bully people by doxxing people. Except one other case. Recall that mother in the "The Librarians" who got bullied by librarians and needed 24 hour police protection? She is the only other case I know where they happened so quickly. She submitted a complaint to an anonymous tip line set up precisely to accept anonymous tips about school books, just to allow the school to act without all the drama that ensues from librarians crying wolf. The "anonymous" tip was then immediately reported to the school, thence to the school librarian, thence to a political attack dog for American Library Association who filed a FOIA request, got the "anonymous" tip on video, then doxxed the mother leading to weeks of police protection. The very same mother you will be doxxing and bullying again if you show "The Librarians" in the schools. Schools have antibullying rules. Those go out the window if you show this film.
So not only is Llano ISD bullying parents who complained about "The Librarians" again bullying a family who needed police protection, but it has somehow leaked and sped up a FOIA response to bully parents, exactly as was done in the bullying incident in the movie. Librarians are experienced in, even trained in this tactic. It's just happened again in Llano ISD.
Also, Texas Library Association trains librarians to defy TPIA, to violate the law, all to keep the indoctrination of school children by school librarians from the public and from Texas legislators. Yet, to ridicule and bully parents opposed to ALA's "The Librarians," suddenly the TPIA response is super quick. See: "School Librarians Train to Violate FOIA Law to Keep Parents In the Dark About S[*]xualizing Children" https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2022/12/school-librarians-train-to-violate-foia.html
So again, there is a potential for a serious problem within either the Board of Trustees or school management, faculty, or employees.
That's the background for the following TPIA request.
Under the Texas Public Information Act, Tex. Gov’t Code §552.001 et seq., I am requesting an opportunity to obtain copies of public records.
- Please produce via PDF in response to me the email I sent you on Saturday, January 10th, 2026 at 9:53 PM, entitled, "Schools Displaying 'The Librarians' Might Renew Bullying of Parents, Presenting Liability." I want to see it you properly redact the response or if you merely send it back with just the email blacked out.
- Please produce via PDF in your response to me the documentation of a TPIA or FOIA request from "Llano County News Wire" or the person running that comprising, as he/she put it, "FOIA request. Freedom of information act. They were not forwarded to anyone. They are required by law to respond to a FOIA request".
- Please produce via PDF or audio recording in your response to me any other communications of any form, including verbal, with the person who allegedly submitted a FOIA request as identified in the above question, and restrict the time frame for this search from January 10, 2026 to the present. Super reasonable. If personal accounts were used to hide such communication(s) from the public, those documents must be released as well, TPIA doesn't protect them. If anyone is in a BCC list, those must be identified as well. BCC is for the emailer's convenience, not a means to bypass TPIA. If you interpret my words in a cagey way or a way you think is clever to keep me from getting information under the law, then you are violating TPIA §552.001: "POLICY; CONSTRUCTION (a) .... The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to implement this policy."
Hey, piece of cake.
If there are any fees for searching or copying these records, please inform me if the cost will exceed $5. However, I would also like to request a waiver of all fees in that the disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest and will contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of how school children are being harmed by American Library Association and subgroups like Texas Library Association or EveryLibrary and by local school districts like Llano ISD that allows political candidates like Leila Green Little to have "The Librarians" shown in the school to use the students to boost her own chances of election--in an election against her husband, no less. (Leila Green Little lost the Little v. Llano County case.) For example, the public might like to know of corruption within the school when parents are being ridiculed and bullied by the release of information used to file TPIA requests and get responses super fast, like occurs only in cases where parents are being bullied for opposing how school librarians harm children per ALA's sixty years of effort to eviscerate parental rights: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PZ2pDhKhRAtlNgR7gek_1kcdGFoskHpa/view?usp=sharing . This information is not being sought for commercial purposes.
The Texas Public Information Act requires that you “promptly produce” the requested records unless, within 10 days, you have sought an Attorney General’s Opinion. If you expect a significant delay in responding to this request, please contact me with information about when I might expect copies or the ability to inspect the requested records.
If you deny any or all of this request, please cite each specific exemption you feel justifies the refusal to release the information and notify me of the appeal procedures available to me under the law.
Thank you for considering my request.
[NOTE: This email has been published here: "TPIA / FOIA Request 001: Llano ISD Board of Trustees" https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2026/01/tpia-foia-request-001-llano-isd-board.html ]
Sincerely,
Dan Kleinman, Owner of SafeLibraries® brand library educational services
NOTE ADDED 19 JANUARY 2026:
On Facebook, "Llano County News Wire" has deleted my polite comment asking to see the FOIA request and the response. I even gave fair notice that I was one of those whose emails were published. Then I was blocked from the page completely.
This tells me I'm over the target that some collusion has occurred. Such collusion is likely to have violated ethics codes for Texas boards of trustees.
"Llano County News Wire" did, however, respond to my comment, and that is still online. You can see a response to me but my comment to which the response pertains is gone.
Here is the "Llano County News Wire" response to the comment of mine that was deleted:
Dan Kleinman public information request or freedom of information request. You call it what you want, it does the same thing. It said I would like to request copies of any and all emails sent to any and all school board members and school personnel in regards to a film being shown at the high school auditorium on January 24, 2026.
So "Llano County News Wire" evaded the question completely then deleted my comment and blocked me entirely. To me, that's smoke, and there's fire somewhere. I'll do my best to report on that fire.
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