Friday, June 25, 2010

Dantis will vacation before retiring.

According to the Journal this morning, link, John Dantis will likely burn up some vacation time, at $113K per year, before he retires (in lieu of being fired?).

County Commission Chairman Art De La Cruz said Thursday that he did not know when John Dantis' retirement will begin.

"I know he has some leave, and that would mean he'll want to exhaust that."
wtf?

In the same report;
County Manager Thaddeus Lucero "... will release at least an "executive summary" of the report, which presumably details the investigation ..."
The complete investigation is by any reasonable measure, a public record subject to surrender under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act, subject to redaction.

The law on redaction is clear;
the Act requires the applicable records custodian to separate out the exempt information in a file or document before making the record available for inspection. The fact that a file may contain some information that may not be disclosed doesn't protect all the information from public disclosure.
The public has a right to see the entire document subject to ethical redaction, not just the "executive summary".

Hopefully, the NM FOG, link, will step up and express some outrage.

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