allows public servants to respond with "no comment"
to any legitimate question about their public service?
... just wondering
and since I am wondering anyway;
I wonder why we continue to put up with it.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
What Perversion of the Rules of Public Service
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In democracies, secrecy is usually officially sanctioned for matters of military or national security.
There are also legitimate reasons why, say CIA operatives names should not be published. Look at that spy who dies after defecting to Cuba, he got like 500 trained up guys killed or close to dead with his idiocy.
Matters of victim preference, like publically identifying rape victims who wish to remain anonymous, or governmnt protection of witnesses, need secrecy.
But questions about public service? Unless the School Board is a front for the Black Ops division of the CIA, then I would say that they should be fair game for questions, with the provisos we both know about in New Mexico IPRA law.
APS does not have to specifically create anything that responds to questions, they just have to provide anything they have that is responsive. They can also say they have nothing that corresponds with your request, so you then might have to fine tune your language.
They don't have to tell us about operational weaknesses that could risk lives (ie - Rigo does not have to hand over the home addresses of the school cops to local gang member public records requestors, but he would have to produce a document showing how much they got paid by contract.
Of course those who have no morals will not respond, nor will those who reap benefits from keeping in the dark what you propose be placed in the sun.
They all eventually fall, the school tyrants, but seem to be replace by school ogres or educational vampires.
It would be nice to recruit some hard working Teacher Dwarves, or the steely eyed educational elf archer or two this time.
Gandalf for Superintendent!
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