A South Carolina judge has issued an order that ends a four-year-long legal struggle between The State newspaper and a Midlands school district.
Judge Daniel Coble’s order issued Monday reinforces his finding that the school board of the Lexington-Richland 5 school district violated the state’s Freedom of Information Act in how it handled the dismissal of former Superintendent Christina Melton back in 2021.
Coble ordered that his decision be displayed prominently on the school district’s website for a six-month period beginning Jan. 5 announcing that the school board violated the law’s open-meeting requirements in ending Melton’s employment during a closed-door session without a public vote…