Grand Canyon Times

Parents at the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) are calling for the resignation of Governing Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg.

Greenburg is accused of having access to a Google Drive with various materials including photographs of children of parents who criticized his policies, according to a report by Arizona Free News.

Fox News reported that the dossier involved 47 parents who spoke out against Greenburg’s policies while at meetings. This included subjects like critical race theory and COVID-19. The dossier allegedly included Social Security numbers, background checks, a divorce paper, mortgage documents, trade certifications and Facebook posts. There allegedly were also videos of people unknowingly being photographed and someone speaking in the video saying he would be happy if a parent died.

The school district sent out an email to parents to tell them their data was safe and also put the blame on Greenburg’s father, Mark Greenburg, the Arizona Free News reported. The two reportedly share a computer, according to records from an Aug. 17 school board meeting. The name listed on the Google Drive is Mark Greenburg, but parents say there is no way to be able to tell who actually uploaded the files to the drive. Fox News reported that more than 600 parents are calling for Greenburg’s resignation.

“I am calling for the immediate resignation of our board president Jann-Michael Greenburg,” said Amy Carney, who was representing the concerned parents and is running for a seat on the Scottsdale Governing Board in November 2022, according to Arizona Free News. “We cannot allow anyone in a leadership position to secretly compile personal documents and information on moms and dads who have dared speak out publicly or on social media about their grievances with the district.”

Fox News reported that Arizona Rep. Joseph Chaplik also called for Greenburg to resign, and activist Chris Rufo also called for Greenburg’s resignation in a tweet.

“BREAKING: Scottsdale Unified school board president Jann-Michael Greenburg has been caught assembling a dossier with confidential information on parents who oppose critical race theory—including photographs of their children. He must resign,” Rufo tweeted.

Attorney Alex Kolodin told the Arizona Free News said these were “troubling allegations,” especially with photographs of a minor being taken without parental consent. He added that in the drive there were also license plate numbers of people Greenburg felt were political opponents. 

“Mr. Greenburg is an elected member of the school board,” Kolodin said. “If such a photograph was taken with his express or tacit consent, he would potentially be liable for violations of Arizona’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, which recognizes a parent’s ‘fundamental’ right to consent before the government makes a video or voice recording of the minor child.”

Kolodin added that the Greenburgs might have broken federal and state laws involving voter intimidation.

“If these allegations are true, Mr. Greenburg and his father might be liable for violating one or more of these laws – though it is difficult to say from the limited facts that have been reported and they must, of course, be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty,” Kolodin said.

Carney told Fox News that the parents felt targeted and that it was “retaliation.”

Greenburg did not respond to questions from Fox News, but he did reply to the Scottsdale Independent, who broke the story.

“I categorically deny having anything to do with any of this. If you are going to claim in a story right now, that I had anything to do with this, I would argue that crosses the line,” Greenburg told the Independent.