By American-Statesman Staff

Austin trustees are scheduled to decide Monday whether to move forward with a lawsuit to keep documents related to their search for a new superintendent from being released to the public.

The lawsuit was filed in June without board approval because, according to the school district's attorneys, the district had to meet a deadline for filing a suit challenging Attorney General Greg Abbott office's ruling that certain documents from the search be made public.

Although the district is fighting to withhold some information, it did release several documents it had sought to keep secret. The school district's attorneys have argued that these and other documents contained information that would reveal the finalists' identities, details of the board's "deliberative process" or "trade secrets" of the search firm.

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