Hatcher Collateral ORRs

Filed Mar. 12 and Mar. 15, 2025 · Filer Kerry Hatcher (Bibb County parent) · Responses Parker Poe cost estimates, dated Mar. 20, 2025 · Included LEO Calls for Service (Mar. 12); 1st Grade Disruptions (Mar. 15) · Not included United Way of Central GA ORR — canceled before final disposition

Legal shorthand used here: ORR = Open Records Request. ORA = Georgia Open Records Act. BCSD = Bibb County School District. LEO = Law Enforcement Officer. PPAB = Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein (reference used on firm document identifiers).

What is this page?

This page indexes two collateral Open Records Requests that Kerry Hatcher filed during March 2025, shortly before and after his JH Settlement ORR of March 11, 2025. Both collateral requests received cost estimates — not denials — from BCSD’s outside counsel Parker Poe on March 20, 2025.

The collateral ORRs are relevant to the Melody record for documentary, not substantive, reasons. They establish the scale and shape of the civic-parent records-request footprint during the fourteen-day window in which BCSD also received requests from two Alex II teachers (February 28, 2025) and maintained its position in the Corley/Macon Melody AG mediation. The Parker Poe ORR Cost Schedule assembles the full pattern.

The two ORRs in the record

LEO Calls for Service (filed March 12, 2025)

Scope: law-enforcement call-for-service records for Alexander II Magnet School during the 2023–2024 school year.
Parker Poe response: March 20, 2025 — cost estimate of $459.42 (10 hours at $47.12/hour). Parker Poe reference: 12129867v2.
Custodian class: the higher $47.12/hour rate reflects sworn-officer or dispatch-records custodian time rather than the $41.02/hour rate used on the civic-parent administrative-records ORRs.
Why it matters for the Melody record: the LEO Calls response is part of the same March 2025 template exemption-basket sequence. The exemption basket cited on this response tracks the same provisions cited on the BCSD denial letter to Hatcher three days earlier.

Primary source: Parker Poe Response — LEO Calls for Service (Mar. 20, 2025).

1st Grade Disruptions (filed March 15, 2025)

Scope: email records relating to classroom-disruption incidents in an Alex II 1st-grade classroom.
Parker Poe response: March 20, 2025 — cost estimate of $153.83 (4 hours at $41.02/hour). Parker Poe reference: 12129772v2.
Why it matters for the Melody record: like the LEO Calls response, this is a same-template response in the same fourteen-day window, same signer, same exemption basket.

Primary source: Parker Poe Response — 1st Grade Disruptions (Mar. 20, 2025).

One ORR deliberately not on this page

Hatcher also filed a United Way of Central GA ORR on March 14, 2025, for email-metadata records relating to correspondence between BCSD and the United Way. Parker Poe issued a cost estimate of $317.91 on March 20, 2025. The request was canceled by the requester before final disposition. Because it did not reach a refusal or production outcome, it does not carry the same refusal-pattern weight as the two entries above, and including it alongside them would misrepresent the documentary record. It is not indexed here.

What this collateral set does not establish

These ORRs are not the subject of the Melody case. They concern records categories (law-enforcement calls, classroom-disruption emails) that are factually distinct from the JH settlement records at issue in the Melody complaint. They are on this site for three limited purposes:

Timing evidence — showing that the civic-parent ORR track was active in the same fourteen-day window that contained the Alex II teacher ORR and the continuing Corley AG mediation.
Template evidence — showing that Parker Poe’s response template (signer, drafter, exemption basket, payment terms, delivery method) was consistent across these responses.
Scale context — Hatcher’s four active March 2025 ORRs (JH Settlement, LEO Calls, 1st Grade Disruptions, plus the canceled United Way request) drew approximately $931 in aggregate Parker Poe cost estimates across the four, before payment or denial was resolved. Combined with the $1,590 teacher-ORR estimate, the March 2025 Parker Poe response pipeline had issued approximately $2,521 in cost-of-disclosure estimates to the three-requester wave within a fourteen-day period.

For the Melody case, these collateral ORRs are context. They are not evidence of any factual claim about the JH settlement or about BCSD’s FERPA legal theory — those arguments are the subject of the court filings and the March 14 denial letter.

Read the originals

Part of Open Records Requests · Civil Action No. 2025-CV-083495 · Bibb County Superior Court