Several local

public school employees are going to court in an attempt to prevent the

Fayette County Board of Education from releasing their phone numbers and

addresses to the Georgia Association of Educators.

GAE has filed

an open records request for that information with the Board of Education.

But the employees' suit claims that information is considered private

under Georgia's open records law.

The matter

will be taken up at a special hearing before Superior Court Judge Johnnie

Caldwell Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 9:30 a.m.

Monday morning,

Caldwell met with several lawyers involved in the case and asked that

the information not be released for the time being, essentially concurring

with a request from the employees for a temporary restraining order to

that effect.

The open records

request was filed by GAE's member services representative, Mark Perez,

asking for certain information on all new hires and employees of the school

board.

Georgia's open

records law states that records should not be released if they contain

the home addresses or telephone numbers of "... law enforcement officers,

judges, scientists employed by the Division of Forensic Sciences of the

Georgia Bureau of Investigation, correctional employees, and prosecutors

... or immediate family members or dependents thereof."

The suit, however,

claims that some school board employees are married to law enforcement

officers from various state and local agencies. The suit was brought forth

Phanco and Nancy Sheets.

Tim Callahan,

a spokesman for the Professional Association of Georgia Educators, said

its attorney became involved when PAGE members notified the organization

about GAE's request. The two organizations are not related.