NMFOG looks dirty.

The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, lists
APS School Board Member, Paula Maes as a director. link

Yet in her capacity as a public official, Paula Maes stands in steadfast opposition to "open APS". She has forbidden any accountability audit that would name names. She stonewalls legitimate questions about the public interests in the APS.

Current APS Board Member Marty Esquivel is also listed as a board member of the NMFOG. In fact, the NMFOG site lists him as a past president.

Yet, Esquivel also stonewalls when the question is asked;

Will you name a time, a day, and a place where you will respond honestly, candidly, and forthrightly to legitimate questions about the public interests in the APS?

Leonard DeLayo, former APS board member, who has his own APS secrets to hide, admitting once being the target of NMFOG inquiries; is now the Executive Director of NMFOG. DeLayo reports that Paula Maes was instrumental in his movement in to the directorship of the NMFOG. link

One of APS' biggest secrets is the relationship between APS and the Modrall law firm. Modrall lawyer Patrick Rogers sits on the Executive Committee of the NMFOG; a position from which NMFOG's assistance, in compelling the surrender of the public records of the APS Modrall relationship, can be withheld.

Since when does "open government" not include telling the ethically redacted truth?

How exactly does this work? How do public servants who refuse to surrender the truth to public knowledge, get to run a Foundation for Open Government?

How do they get away with such egregious hypocrisy?

Perhaps because Journal Editor Kent Walz,
who steadfastly refuses to report on the ethics and
accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS,
also sits on the board of the NMFOG.

Perhaps because TH Lang, publisher of the Journal, is also a member.

KOB, KOAT, and KRQE, are all NMFOG members in some capacity.

From the NMFOG website;

NMFOG was created to fill a specific need because public officials and public agencies in New Mexico were--and some still are--often disdainful of the public's right to know and of the laws intended to insure public access to government decision-making.(emphasis added)

unless of course, those officials happen to work for the APS/Modrall;

an apparently exempt public agency.