Fifteen public records requests. One parent with a printer. No records, apparently.

Exhibit A · The Quote

Hollywood Police Department quoted a single parent, for their own emails, the following dollar amount:

That is for body camera footage, internal communications, and coordination records — all of which the Hollywood Police Department already owns, on a server it already operates, concerning records it is legally required to produce under Florida Statute § 119.

A separate, narrowed version of roughly the same request came back at $241,000. A request for the personnel and Internal Affairs records of a single SRO (Graziani) came back at $226.08 and was then closed for non-payment. So the going rate for the truth at the Hollywood Police Department, in 2026, sits somewhere between two hundred and twenty-six dollars and a quarter of a million.

The legal basis for a quarter-million-dollar estimate from a municipal police department, for emails they already have, on hardware they already own, is — well. We're waiting.

Exhibit B · Happy Birthday!

In which a parent learns he is still employed at Broward County Public Schools, nine years after he stopped being employed at Broward County Public Schools.

On March 24, 2026, BCPS responded to public records request 2526-00903. The response produced a document. The document was an email. The email was from a retirement advisor named Fernando E. Recalde at First Retirement Services, sent on July 22, 2025, to the address michael.corva@browardschools.com.

The subject line was "Happy Birthday!"

Michael Corva left Broward County Public Schools nine years before this email was sent. The mailbox it was sent to should have been deprovisioned in 2016. It was not. It was active, receiving external mail, accepting CAUTION-flagged external-source messages, and being indexed by the BCPS mail system, in July of 2025. In March of 2026, when a public records request was filed for the emails associated with his account, that same BCPS mail system handed the birthday greeting right back to him.

The Broward County Public Schools records system, in other words, delivered the proof that the Broward County Public Schools records system should have deleted this mailbox nine years ago. One BCPS system destroyed the alibi of the other BCPS system in a single machine-generated response to a public records request.

A nine-year-old mailbox receives a birthday card. The birthday card is preserved. The mailbox is not. A request is filed. The birthday card comes back. The universe winks.

Exhibit C · The Ghost Request

Somebody filed a public records request in my name, and it was not me.

On February 17, 2026, an unknown actor at or near the Hollywood Police Department submitted a public records request — reference number 5748961 — using Michael Corva's email address and identifying information, without his knowledge or authorization. Florida Statute § 817.568 calls this Criminal Use of Personal Identification Information. The City of Hollywood calls it request number 5748961. The City then closed it with no action and directed the resulting complaint to civil court.

Identity theft in a municipal records office is, apparently, just paperwork.

Exhibit D · The Records That Do Not Exist (We Have Them)

Requests that came back empty in defiance of documents we already have.

These documents do not exist. We have them. They do not exist. We have them.

Exhibit E · Who Is A. Del Barrio?

This question was not asked by a parent. It was asked by the Chief Student Services Officer of Broward County Public Schools.

On January 29, 2026, at 7:25:40 PM, Saemone Hollingsworth — Chief Student Services Officer for Broward County Public Schools — emailed five BCPS executives. The subject was "Fw: Recap for 1/29." The body of the email, in its entirety, was the following four words:

"Who is A. Del Barrio?"

A. Del Barrio is listed, in various BCPS documents, as the Director of Family Counseling for Broward County Public Schools. Directing family counseling is, in its role description, precisely the kind of thing that the office of the Chief Student Services Officer would know something about. On January 29, 2026, the Chief Student Services Officer, on official BCPS email, asked her own colleagues, on official BCPS email, to tell her who this person was.

We are not writing a Curious Case. The Chief Student Services Officer is writing a Curious Case. We are merely publishing it. The dedicated case page is coming and will be anchored to this email as Exhibit 1.

When the Chief Student Services Officer of a half-billion-dollar school district does not know who her Director of Family Counseling is, somebody should probably figure out who her Director of Family Counseling is. We have made a request. We will publish the response.