Darren White, Kari Brandenburg, Beth Everitt; Birds of a Feather

Open government laws were created in recognition of the right of the public to know the fate of the power and resources that they have entrusted to public servants.

Exceptions to the law were written to provide for the (rare) situation where the public interest is genuinely, honestly, legitimately served by secrecy. It is clear that exception was created only to serve the public interest.


A toe in the door, is what those legitimate exceptions represent to unscrupulous public servants. Those who want to keep more and more secrets about what they are doing with public power and resources. They hire lawyers to pry the crack wider and wider open; in order to hide more and more from voters and taxpayers.

The odd and particularly upsetting irony, is that those public servants and their lawyers are using public resources to keep their incompetence and corruption secret. Public power and resources are being used against the public interest, and in plain view.

It is in the public interest to know about the public corruption and criminal conspiracy in the leadership of the APS; both in the leadership of the police force, and in their financial department.

It is information voters need in order to hold board members accountable at election. It is information they need to decide whether or not to support bond issues and mill levies.

It is the self interests of Darren White and Beth Everitt, which are being served by keeping the records of corruption and incompetence secret. Both are responsible (either directly, or indirectly through their lack of oversight over subordinates and resources) for felony criminal misconduct surrounding the illegal criminal background checks.

If Kari Brandenburg has a personal interest, some exposure of her character and competence, I am unaware of it. Never the less, she too refuses to inform the public as fully as the spirit of the Inspection of Public Records Act requires.

She has a lawyer, paid for by taxpayers, to litigate for herself, an exception to the law.

Darren White has a lawyer, paid for by taxpayers, to litigate for himself, an exception to the law.

The leadership of the APS has many, many lawyers, paid for by taxpayers, to litigate for themselves, an exception to the law.


Lawyers litigating, not in the public interest,
but in the interests of public servants who wish
to except themselves from the law.

Lawyers litigating to keep secret from public
knowledge, the fate of the power and resources
that have been entrusted to public servants.

What is the fate of the public trust and treasure?


... shouldn't someone do something?