Robbins sez to hell with candid, forthright and honest.

He didn't really say that. He won't say anything at all.

He is calling the APS Audit Committee into a meeting behind closed doors tonight, link. One of the items on their agenda is the whistleblower problem.

The "problem" is that the board is individually and collectively responsible for the fact that more than 300 whistleblower complaints have been denied a final hearing by the board as part of their due process. The final hearing is the only guarantee complainants have, that administrators have ethically adjudicated complaints against fellow and superordinate administrators. The final hearing is fundamental to the due process; without the hearing there is no due process.

The board has an obligation to give every single whistleblower complaint its day in court.

The reason they won't is because in such a hearing, they would be compelled to tell the truth, and it would be on the record.

In that hearing, they will have to admit that they are not accountable to any standard of conduct higher than the law.

For years, they have been pretending they are accountable, as role models, to higher standards of conduct than the law. They have been pretending accountability to the Pillars of Character Counts!, a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct.

In order to avoid my hearings and the public exposure of the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, they are denying all complainants their final hearings.

Tonight, they are going to meet behind closed doors to try to figure out a way out. Their lawyers and your tax dollars will be there, advising them of the ways in which they can escape accountability to the law.

If that is not their reason for meeting, what is?

The need to hide a violation of the law is self evident. The legitimate reason for them to meet in secret is not at all evident. "Whistleblower Detailed Review" is not candid, forthright and honest. It is not even "reasonably specific" under the law.

I have asked the AG's Office to intervene, they courteously reminded me of my right to be a citizen attorney general and do my own enforcement of the law; I am allowed to sue APS and Modrall with their pipeline to classroom dollars, over the issue, if I so choose.

It was also pointed out that they are not in the business of preventing violations of the Open Meetings Act; get back to them after the law is broken.

There are only two reasons to meet behind closed doors;
to hide the truth in accordance with the law or,
to hide the truth in violation of the law.

If they were going to meet for any good and ethical reason,
they would tell you what that reason is.

If what they are doing is in accordance with the law,
they can tell the truth about what they are doing.
They can be candid, forthright and honest.

David Robbins, seen here violating
my civil rights at an Audit Committee
meeting, can be candid, forthright
and honest about his intentions.

But, he isn't.

What is he hiding?

If what they are doing is in accordance with the law, why hide it? If what they're doing is not in accordance with the law, perhaps they shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

KOAT TV knows that hundreds of whistle blowers are being denied final hearings and due process. News Director Sue Stephens has some explaining to do, about why she is letting it slide.

Kent Walz and the Journal know also, and
they have some explaining to do as well.