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Yorktown Central School District

Yorktown: You deserve better.

The District's refusal to pick up the phone cannot stand.

The Hudson Valley Transparency Project is gathering recordings, documents, and firsthand accounts regarding communication and accountability concerns involving the Yorktown Central School District. This page will be updated as additional evidence is reviewed and published.

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Our Timeline

Early March, 2026

We began looking into Yorktown...

As part of our regular work, our organization submits requests for public records to government bodies across New York State, as permitted under the Freedom of Information Law. While preparing requests related to an unrelated investigation involving every school district in Westchester and Putnam Counties, we reviewed how each district handles public records access. In doing so, we found that Yorktown appeared not to maintain a publicly available “subject matter list”, which is a summary of the categories of records an agency maintains, which is legally required under New York State law. That discovery led us to broaden our investigation into the district.

Late March, 2026

We tried to call...

Over the course of the next two weeks, our organization made 16 separate calls to various district extensions and left 3 voicemails, asking for nothing more than a fax number or mailing address where we could send our request. We made similar calls to every other school district in Westchester and Putnam Counties and, in nearly every case, were able to obtain that information without difficulty. Yorktown was the exception to that.

Wednesday, April, 8th

We finally got a call back...

After two weeks of waiting, and after placing another call earlier that day, we finally received a return call from District Clerk Yvette Segal. During that conversation, Clerk Segal came across as dismissive and unprofessional. The call was then disconnected. A recording of that interaction is available below.

Thursday, April 9th

We decided to come in person...

In order to submit our request, we went to the district office in person. The other district employees we encountered were courteous and helpful; both the security guard and receptionist conducted themselves professionally and appeared genuinely interested in assisting a member of the public. Clerk Segal, however, was rude from the outset. When asked to be more respectful, she responded, “I don’t care,” and slammed the door. Before leaving, we provided our contact information, stated that we wished to make a formal complaint to the superintendent, and then departed.

Friday, April 10th

Once again, we tried to call...

After making clear that we intended to file a complaint against Clerk Segal, and after leaving multiple forms of contact information at the district’s request, we waited for a response. By Friday afternoon, having heard nothing, we called again to confirm that our request to make a complaint had been received. After several calls to different extensions went unanswered, we left another voicemail. Even now, we still have not received any response.

Our Published Evidence, so far.

Exhibit 1: Clerk Segal's callback.

After repeated calls over approximately two weeks, a callback was finally received. This recording is included so the public can hear the response directly for themselves.

Exhibit 2: In-person interaction at District Offices.

This recording documents the in-person interaction that followed the phone call the day before.

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If you are a resident, parent, staff member, or former employee with relevant information, you can send it anonymously and securely to the Hudson Valley Transparency Project for us to investigate.

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Hudson Valley Transparency Project
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