Second Wave of Right-to-Know Requests Hit Concord School District

The former Concord resident who was involved in a last year attempting to get information from Concord’s about a teacher’s resignation is taking another crack at his right-to-know requests.

has sent another letter to the requesting emails and access to electronic information that he believes will show that former Concord High School teacher – now School Board member – was targeted at her job and forced to resign.

Frazel made two requests last year that were rejected by School Superintendent . He then went before the School Board to request access to emails and they ignored his request, so he filed a suit in Superior Court.

In the verdict, the judge threw out the request but not before stating Frazel’s main problem was the way in which he made the requests.

Frazel slightly altered his new request first by asking for access to all emails between July 2009 and January 2011; asking for access to the electronic properties of a Word document reportedly created by Concord High School Principal that was written to Higgins; and a new request, any and all emails that contained Higgins’ name between May 2010 and January 2011, from email accounts managed by Rath, Connolly, and , Connolly’s administrative assistant.

“I expect to get nothing,” he said in an interview. “But I can’t do anything in court until I make another request. The judge stated that I didn’t do it properly, so I’m doing that. I gotta go through the process.”

Rath confirmed that she had received the request and said she would be meeting with counsel this week to decide how to respond.

Frazel said the dates in question were the periods of time between when Higgins began speaking out against the controversial elementary school consolidation project that required the demolition of historic buildings and the date of her resignation. Higgins’ organized hundreds of people to oppose the demolition of two history schools, Kimball and Morrill, which was also the school district office, as well as seven homes on Rumford and Pleasant streets.

Frazel also stated that he recently filed a request with the New Hampshire Department of Education asking that they investigate the matter but they reportedly refused telling him that it was not in its jurisdiction to investigate school superintendents or to get involved in labor disputes that are under the purview of local school boards.

“Another government agency telling me it’s not their job,” he said. “Someone has to have oversight over the superintendent. The School Board won’t do it; the Department of Education won’t do it … Who is in charge of a school employee who is not involved in a criminal case but might be involved in unethical behavior? From the people I talk to, it’s nobody.”

Frazel and Higgins also currently have restraining orders against Frazel’s ex-wife’s new husband, Robert Mosher. Mosher is reportedly appealing the order against Higgins and both parties are waiting for a resolution in the case.