![]() The series of emails at the heart of the termination reflected a conversation over some of Foster’s concerns with the policies trustees adopted in February. “Before everything that has happened, I have tried to be open, especially with our community and keep that information because I, as the director, have not been trying to hide what we are doing, our position.” A battle over email “I think over the last few months things have deteriorated in the relationship between me and the board,” he said. “We will not.”įoster said it appeared that members of the board had already decided to have him terminated even before the vote took place. “The library staff will not stand for this,” she said. Patrons visiting the Autauga-Prattville Public Library were turned away after staff prematurely closed the facility and locked the doors in protest over the termination of the library director, according to Adrienne Barringer, a library associate, who spoke with people just outside the library entrance doors. He said he did so to “try and protect myself by recording, (which) seems to have backfired.” Members then added a second transgression, “violation of criminal law,” during the executive session when Foster said he recorded the conversations that took place. Sharing has been my policy since the very beginning of starting this position in July.” ![]() I am not ashamed of anything I have done. “I shared the information because that was included in the range of the request, and again I have not tried to hide. “I was never directly told that information was not to go out,” Foster said. Scrawled on the paper containing the statement was an arrow, starting underneath the word “press,” and continuing underneath the statement which read “and violation of criminal law.” The Board did not provide any evidence of wrongdoing.įoster said the “confidential information” the board referred to involved a records request that he fulfilled featuring emails between himself, the trustees and Laura Clark, an attorney hired by board members last month. The two-sentence statement said that Foster was terminated “for revealing confidential information to the press.”
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