WHITE PLAINS, NY (June 8, 2026) — A Westchester County Supreme Court proceeding against the City School District of New Rochelle over heavily redacted legal invoices connected to Shrub Oak International School has advanced past a dismissal attempt, with a reply filing submitted June 3 pressing the court to require the District to justify its withholding of taxpayer-funded billing records.
The case stems from Freedom of Information Law requests submitted in October 2024 seeking legal invoices and related records documenting the District’s expenditures in connection with Shrub Oak International School. After more than 14 months of extensions, the District produced records in January 2026 that the petitioner contends are so extensively redacted as to be meaningless for public accountability purposes.
Following Justice Pulver’s April 28 ruling, the District filed a Verified Answer on May 20 maintaining that the redactions were necessary to protect attorney-client privileged communications. The June 3 filing is Cox’s reply to that answer.
Full coverage of the proceeding, including details of what the invoice production reveals and what relief is being sought, is available to Words in Edgewise subscribers at robertcox.ie.
This article was prepared with the assistance of AI tools under the direction and editing of Robert Cox.
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