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A representative of Cass County Public Schools sent a letter to an HSLDA family telling them they had neglected to submit immunization information on their Competent Private Instruction (CPI) form.

After the family contacted us for assistance, we discovered that they had previously filed CPI forms for their child many times. Since Iowa law only requires families to submit immunization information the first time a CPI form is filed for a child, no additional immunization information was due this year.

HSLDA promptly called the school district and spoke to the author of the letter. We asked if she knew that immunization is only required on a child's first CPI form. She said, apologetically, that she had no idea. She assured us she would send a letter of correction to the family.

In further conversation, we discovered that the original letter from the school was prompted, during an audit of the school system's records, when it was discovered that the school had lost the previously-submitted immunization information. A school's loss of information does not, of course, obligate families to submit new information.