APS ignores records request

I have reason to believe that APS' Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta was party to an exchange of text messages with Lt Gov Diane Denish spokesman James Hallinan, in which I was defamed, link.

I handed APS' Director of Communications and Custodian of Public Records Rigo Chavez a bonafide records request for any public records in which I was individually named.

According to the law, Chavez was required to respond within 3 days. The response would acknowledge (officially) that he had received the request, and that the records were available for inspection and/or copying, or that the records were not immediately available and would be ready by some certain date.

In violation of the law, Chavez has not responded.

In violation of the law, it will likely be a cold day in hell before I see these particular public records.

As an aside, the guy who sits at the desk where the buck stops for this illegal suppression of public records, Chavez' boss, APS Supt Winston Brooks will accept the NM Foundation for Open Government's Dixon Award, link, for being a "champion" transparency.

The formerly prestigious award used to be given to people who actually deserved it.

Brooks is currently using the technicalities and loopholes in the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act and legal weaselry to hide the results of an independent investigation of felony criminal misconduct involving APS senior administrators, link.