Open letter to NMAG Gary King

Sir,

Almost two years ago, credible allegations of felony criminal abuse of Darren White's NCIC criminal data base, by senior administrators of the APS, were made public.

Impartial evidence of the public corruption and criminal conspiracy was gathered by an independent investigator.

The evidence was supposedly turned over to 2nd Judicial District Attorney Kari Brandenburg for a decision whether or not to pursue felony criminal prosecutions of any or all the the APS senior administrators that were implicated in the scandal.

In response to a public records request for an ethically redacted version of the evidence that had been surrendered to her, she refused.

She claimed that every word was excepted from the requirements of your New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. She claimed that every word was protected by virtue of "ongoing investigation".

Your office offered no help in making her comply with the law.

In response to a request for any public record that showed that there actually was any "ongoing investigation" taking place; she choose to simply ignore the request, claiming the same exception.

The subsequent complaint to your office has been ignored as well; it has not even appeared on your website as you have promised.

Further, I am in hope that it falls within your ability, to hold District Attorney Brandenburg's toes to the fire on her failure to complete the investigation in a timely manner.

The two highest ranking APS administrators implicated in the scandal have already retired; one, Beth Everitt, has already fled the jurisdiction. and the other, Tom Savage, has announced plans that he will.

It is important that Kari Brandenburg's "investigation" be completed and released to voters before the re-election of incumbent school board members, and before her own re-election.



The abject lack of accountability is disconcerting. The lack of candid, forthright and honest responses to legitimate questions about the public interests is frankly, frightening.

It serves only to cement a wide spread public perception that public service is corrupt and incompetent, and invulnerable to attempts to hold individual public servants accountable for their public corruption and incompetence.

The perception that there is no justice in the justice system
for the little guy; only for the good ol' boys in public service.

There is little if any, evidence to the contrary.


cc Gary King upon posting.



end note: after posting, and after Gary King acknowledged receipt of the cc.

I have asked repeatedly for an accommodation of a personal disability in the inspection of the public records that I have requested. Rigo Chavez has ignored as many as four emails regarding the disability and the requested accommodation.

Assistant Attorney General Zackary Shandler refuses to acknowledge receipt of my fax asking for his assistance on the issue.