If a Tree Falls in the Forest

and no one hears it; did it make a sound?

If the Communication and Community Relations Departments in the APS, communicate and relate; and no one hears them; have they justified the spending of a half a million tax dollars a year, on communication and community relations departments?

According to an article in the Journal, city council candidate Pauline de'Pascal has requested help from the Attorney General, Gary King, in getting the APS/Modrall to surrender public records. She has asked for
the public records, of the public service, of a public servant; one Brad Winter.

Brad Winter is a senior APS administrator. His name
has been mentioned among candidates for
the next superintendency of the APS.

Monica Armenta is quoted as saying;

"The district will get to the request when it has time."

The district has not the found time, since July 24th.

Spirit of the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act be damned; Monica Armenta says the letter of the law has not been followed. She said; "de'Pascal didn't cite the NMIPRA in her request.'"Had she, "... it would have determined certain time lines for responding"; three business days for immediately available records; fifteen calendar days for all but the most colossal requests.

Which brings us to the practice of Juris Mustelidae;
or legal weaselry.

Ethical people do not practice Juris Mustelidae;
nor do they hire lawyers who do.

It is the need to defend themselves with Juris Mustelidae
that drove the leadership to except it self from accountability to any standard of ethical conduct;

to except themselves from accountability for hiring
the school board president's husband's law firm
to practice Jusis Mustelidae in litigation
against the public interest; and on the public dime.

Were it, only a dime.

So Monica Armenta, speaking for the leadership of the APS and their lawyers at the Modrall law firm, says APS doesn't have to release the public records of a public servant and his public service because of a legal technicality. Which excepts her and them, from accountability to the law.

The law, represents the lowest standard of conduct
that decent people will tolerate.

Monica Armenta and the leadership of the APS
are not accountable; even to the law.

They certainly cannot claim accountability to any higher standard of conduct, like for instance, the student standard of conduct.


Which means that Monica Armenta and the leadership of the APS cannot be held accountable as role models for the student standard of conduct.

Even as really, really, bad ones.