the REST of the story

According to the Journal ( (link) sub req)

An Albuquerque police dispatcher, criticized for his advice to the principal of Atrisco Elementary, won the appeal of his firing.
He then promptly resigned.

APS cannot produce the recording of calls made to the APS Police Dispatch phones.

The equipment that records these calls, is fairly sophisticated. It records a time and date stamp designed to make it difficult to cut and splice recordings. The recordings are of substantial value as evidence; credible and unequivocal.

The recording (would have been) a public record of some substantial value to the lawyers and families that are suing the district over the alleged pedophile's alleged battery on their children.

It would also of been of use in firing a dispatcher.

But you can't very well use the recording in one hearing; and then pretend that it doesn't exist in another.

So it just disappears entirely in favor of the interests of the larger litigation and liability.

The evidence disappears;
even if they have to let a little fish go.


On the way out of the hearing;
he told them to take their job, and shove it.