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Policies & proceduresArchived file

ECA — Security/Access to Buildings, November 12, 2026 print

Newport News Public Schools · Newport News Public SchoolsDocument date: November 12, 2026

Two-page BoardDocs policy print listing Active status and January 20, 2026 last review.

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Owner-supplied BoardDocs browser print dated November 12, 2026. Lists adoption July 18, 1973, last revision June 19, 2007 and last review January 20, 2026. The document date is the print date, not a policy amendment. This copy does not independently certify the complete current manual. Earlier ECA prints remain separate historical records.

File: nnps-policy-eca-november-2026-print.pdf

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NNPS — ECA, Security-Access to Buildings, reviewed, 12-16-25 — January 20, 2026 board copy

Newport News Public Schools · School BoardDocument date: January 20, 2026

Policy, procedure or guidance attached to the School Board meeting on January 20, 2026. Agenda section: New and Revised Policies. Agenda inclusion does not establish adoption or legal effect.

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Official NNPS public meeting portal; linked in meeting 66, January 20, 2026. Date shown identifies this Board-meeting copy, not an independently established issue, adoption or effective date. This is the posted Board copy, not a certification of the current policy manual. Opens the publisher document; no separate retained file is asserted.

Court & legal recordsArchived file

Ban-letter wording and metadata: October 31 evidence review

Newport News Public Schools · Records access and restrictionsDocument date: Date not specified

Comparison confirms a denial clause in the signed final letter that is absent from the retained review draft. The inspected metadata does not attribute that particular edit to an official.

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ANN editorial comparison dated October 31, 2026, not an original agency decision. Compares the retained April 23 draft, signed final, April 23 review transmittal, later converted final-style PDF and native April 14 interim Word metadata. The further review did not recover native April 23 revision history; no sentence-level authorship is established.

File: dsa-ban-version-provenance-review-2026-10-31.pdf

FOIA responsesArchived file

April 24 native Moss email delivers the signed ban decision

Newport News Public Schools · Records access and restrictionsDocument date: April 24, 2025

Native mailbox message from Rosalind Moss carries the exact signed final decision PDF. Its received timestamp distinguishes delivery to the retained mailbox from the earlier internal circulation.

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Selected ANN transcription of the native message received April 24, 2025 at 18:55:55 UTC (2:55:55 p.m. EDT). Attachment bytes match the privately retained signed source PDF underlying the existing redacted final letter. Private recipient routing, signature and contact details omitted. Email delivery does not establish opening, postal service or legal sufficiency of notice.

File: dsa-moss-final-email-2025-04-24.pdf

Court & legal recordsArchived file

May 1 filed notice withdraws the amended injunction materials

Virginia state agencies · Circuit Court - filed notice copyDocument date: May 1, 2025

Selected transcription of the filed May 1 withdrawal notice. It withdraws the April 25 motion, amended hearing notice and draft order, while expressly retaining exhibits and supporting materials. Its premise about April 21 relief must be read with the later May 2 vacatur.

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Selected ANN transcription of the supplied notice, visually checked with its May 1 2:36 PM filing stamp and service certificate. Private identifiers/signature omitted. Scope is amended materials; the later May 2 vacatur supersedes the stated premise about April 21 relief.

File: dsa_court_amended_withdrawal_2025_05_01_Redacted.pdf

Court & legal recordsArchived file

May 5 proposed civil dismissal order: unsigned draft

Virginia state agencies · Circuit Court - counsel draftDocument date: May 5, 2025

Counsel circulated this proposed order after the May 5 hearing. It proposes dismissal as procedurally improper and notes exceptions, but the supplied PDF has blank judicial signature and date fields. It is not the final entered May 6 order.

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Selected ANN transcription of the PDF expressly called a draft in counsel’s May 5 email. Judicial date/signature fields are blank. The no-edit reply does not establish entry. Private endorsements/contacts omitted; entered final wording remains unverified.

File: dsa_court_dismissal_draft_2025_05_05_Redacted.pdf

Court & legal recordsArchived file

April 21 signed injunction copy, subsequently vacated May 2

Virginia state agencies · Circuit Court - supplied copyDocument date: April 21, 2025

Selected transcription of a supplied two-page injunction copy bearing an April 21 entered date and a judge-line signature. It temporarily addressed child-school access and future exclusion, while directing the petitioner to stay out of the administration building. The retained May 2 order vacates it as signed in error.

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Selected ANN transcription of the two-page signed copy in the court-service email received May 2 UTC (May 1 local). Source heading retains [PROPOSED]; date and signature visually checked, not clerk-authenticated. Read with the May 2 signed vacatur as signed in error. Private identifiers/signature image omitted.

File: dsa_court_injunction_copy_2025_04_21_Redacted.pdf

Court & legal recordsArchived file

July 18 counsel letter describes no-contest plea and deferred-disposition terms

Other public body · Supplied criminal-counsel correspondenceDocument date: July 18, 2025

Selected transcription of counsel's July 18, 2025 follow-up letter describing a no-contest trespass plea, a deferred finding until July 17, 2026 and conditional dismissal. It documents counsel's account of terms, not the later court disposition.

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Selected ANN summary of the signed July 18 letter in counsel’s same-day email. Private address, contacts and signature omitted. These are counsel’s described historical terms, not a court-certified order or proof of later dismissal.

File: dsa_criminal_counsel_terms_2025_07_18_Redacted.pdf

Court & legal recordsArchived file

May 2, 2025 signed order vacating the April 21 temporary injunction

City of Newport News · Circuit CourtDocument date: May 2, 2025

Entered order in CL2501751T-00 vacates the prior injunction as signed in error and keeps the May 5 hearing scheduled. It does not establish the later hearing result.

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One-page unaltered Scan.pdf attachment to Renee C. Coltrain’s May 2, 2025 court-office email, received 11:03 a.m. Eastern. Entered May 2 and signed by Judge Tyneka L. D. Flythe. Preserved separately from draft proposed orders. Original April 21 order and May 6 final order remain separate missing records.

File: dsa-court-vacating-order-2025-05-02.pdf

Court & legal recordsArchived file

Court office transmits the signed vacating order, May 2, 2025

City of Newport News · Circuit CourtDocument date: May 2, 2025

Judicial-office transmittal identifies the attached vacatur, describes the earlier order as signed in error and confirms the scheduled May 5 hearing.

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Source notes & file details

Owner-supplied mailbox record reviewed October 31, 2026. Selected ANN transcription of the identified message; private contact/routing fields, signatures and unrelated quoted material omitted. Original preserved privately. The copy records the sender’s position, not an independent finding.

File: dsa-vacatur-transmittal-2025-05-02.pdf

FOIA responsesArchived file

NNPS transmits an exclusion-list export without publishing the names

Newport News Public Schools · Public Information & Community InvolvementDocument date: January 14, 2026

January 14 response identifies a PDF export of the data file listing excluded or banned individuals. This excerpt preserves the response but omits the underlying names and contact fields.

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Source notes & file details

Owner-supplied mailbox record reviewed October 31, 2026. Selected ANN transcription of the identified message; private contact/routing fields, signatures and unrelated quoted material omitted. Original preserved privately. The copy records the sender’s position, not an independent finding.

File: nnps-exclusion-list-transmittal-2026-01-14.pdf

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Va. Code § 8.01-184 — Power to issue declaratory judgments

Virginia state agencies · Legal reference sourcesDocument date: Date not specified

Gives circuit courts authority within their jurisdiction to adjudicate rights in an actual controversy.

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Source notes

Official Code of Virginia publisher text. Official current section history lists 1977 Acts, chapter 617 as its latest amendment; no 2025 or 2026 amendment is listed. Source checked October 16, 2026.

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Va. Code § 8.01-620 — General jurisdiction of circuit court to award injunctions

Virginia state agencies · Legal reference sourcesDocument date: Date not specified

Confers general circuit-court jurisdiction to award injunctions.

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Official Code of Virginia publisher text. Official current section history lists 1995 Acts, chapter 310 as its latest amendment; no 2025 or 2026 amendment is listed. Source checked October 16, 2026.

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Davison v. Rose, No. 20-1683 — Published Fourth Circuit opinion

Federal agencies · Legal reference sourcesDocument date: December 3, 2021

Published Fourth Circuit opinion concerning a Virginia parent’s school-access restrictions, retaliation and due-process claims. The court affirmed judgments for the defendants. This is a separate case, not a decision in the DSA litigation.

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Source notes

Official United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit opinion. Published appellate decision predating the DSA events. Fourth Circuit precedent governs federal district courts in that circuit; this is not a decision in the DSA case. Source checked October 16, 2026.

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April 14, 2025 Stewart interim restriction letter

Newport News Public Schools · NNPS / related records correspondenceDocument date: April 14, 2025

Stewart’s letter cites the March 13 and April 4 School Board Office interactions and imposes an interim restriction pending panel review.

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The letter calls the interval ten working days and states April 14 through April 26, 2025. Those are the document’s words, not a recalculated interval. Conduct allegations remain attributed. Publication copy with permanent redactions; original source retained privately.

File: dsa-2025-04-14-interim-restriction.pdf

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April 14, 2025 native letter version attached by Sexton

Newport News Public Schools · NNPS / related records correspondenceDocument date: April 14, 2025

Native interim-letter version attached to Sexton’s April 14 internal email.

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Source notes & file details

Rendered from the native attachment, with privacy redactions. Retained separately from the release’s converted rendition to preserve document-version provenance. Publication copy with permanent redactions; original source retained privately.

File: dsa-2025-04-14-sexton-attached-draft.pdf

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April 14-15, 2025 school-leadership correspondence, privacy-redacted

Newport News Public Schools · NNPS / related records correspondenceDocument date: April 15, 2025

Requester objections and internal leadership correspondence concerning the interim restriction, review and communications.

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Source notes & file details

April 14–15 chain forwarded in December. Private family/student details are removed. Questions about awareness or arrangements do not prove no review panel met. Publication copy with permanent redactions; original source retained privately.

File: dsa-2025-04-15-leadership-correspondence.pdf

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April 16, 2025 Spratley accommodation clarification, excerpt

City of Newport News · Office of the City AttorneyDocument date: April 16, 2025

April 16 Spratley follow-up clarifies a commitment to work on access accommodations.

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Source notes & file details

Visible header April 16, 2025, 12:03 p.m. First-page excerpt of a five-page email chain; quoted pages 2–5 omitted and child-specific details removed. A promise to work on accommodations is not proof of implementation, unrestricted access or withdrawal of the restriction. Publication copy with permanent redactions; original source retained privately.

File: dsa-2025-04-16-accommodation-clarification.pdf

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April 16, 2025 Spratley rationale and administrative-review response, excerpt

City of Newport News · Office of the City AttorneyDocument date: April 16, 2025

April 16 Spratley response states the City’s explanation for the interim restriction and closed administrative review.

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Source notes & file details

Visible header April 16, 2025, 11:58 a.m. First-page excerpt of a five-page email chain; quoted pages 2–5 omitted and family details removed. The legal and conduct assertions are Spratley’s position, not court findings or proof that the review occurred. Publication copy with permanent redactions; original source retained privately.

File: dsa-2025-04-16-rationale-response.pdf

Court & legal recordsArchived file

April 17, 2025 filed motion for temporary injunctive relief

Virginia state agencies · Newport News Circuit Court / filed party pleadingsDocument date: April 17, 2025

File-stamped April 17 motion seeking temporary injunctive relief concerning access during the civil case.

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Source notes & file details

The motion asks for temporary access and a written process, and page 3 states the petitioner would refrain from entering the administration building while the case was pending. This is a signed filed request and stated undertaking, not a signed judicial order or proof that relief was granted. Private personal and child-specific details are removed. Publication copy with permanent redactions; original source retained privately.

File: dsa-2025-04-17-filed-injunction-motion.pdf

Court & legal recordsArchived file

April 17, 2025 filed petition for declaratory and injunctive relief

Virginia state agencies · Newport News Circuit Court / filed party pleadingsDocument date: April 17, 2025

File-stamped April 17 petition for declaratory and injunctive relief concerning the April encounter and property restriction.

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Source notes & file details

The signed party pleading names NNPS, the City and Robert Stewart in his official capacity, while the supplied case-information screen lists only two institutional defendants. Pages 8–9 state requested declaratory, temporary and permanent relief. Allegations and requests are not court findings or granted relief. The filing stamp, not the later scan filename, supplies the date. Publication copy with permanent redactions; original source retained privately.

File: dsa-2025-04-17-filed-petition.pdf

FOIA responsesArchived file

April 23, 2025 Moss review draft, not the signed final letter

Newport News Public Schools · NNPS / related records correspondenceDocument date: April 23, 2025

Proposed restriction-letter text attached to Moss’s April 23 review email.

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Source notes & file details

Rendered from the native attachment. This review draft differs from the signed final letter and is preserved as a separate document, not treated as the operative final decision. Publication copy with permanent redactions; original source retained privately.

File: dsa-2025-04-23-moss-review-draft.pdf

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April 23, 2025 Moss draft-review transmittal

Newport News Public Schools · NNPS / related records correspondenceDocument date: April 23, 2025

Moss sends a proposed letter to Stewart for review.

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Source notes & file details

April 23, 5:00 p.m. Standalone email extracted from a PDF portfolio. A draft-review transmission, not proof that the final decision was sent to the requester that day. Publication copy with permanent redactions; original source retained privately.

File: dsa-2025-04-23-moss-review-transmittal.pdf

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April 23, 2025 restriction letter, unsigned text version

Newport News Public Schools · NNPS / related records correspondenceDocument date: April 23, 2025

Unsigned converted-text rendition of the April 23 restriction letter naming Rosalind N. Moss.

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Source notes & file details

Distinct from the signed scan and the earlier review draft. Its conduct allegations and reference to a trespass charge are agency statements, not court findings or proof of delivery. Publication copy with permanent redactions; original source retained privately.

File: dsa-2025-04-23-restriction-text-version.pdf