Rigo Chavez I'm sure, will argue; it's all "legal".

Rigo Chavez one of the Directors of
APS' Communications. He and Monica
Armenta, who outranks him by
about 40 grand a year, co-direct; he
administratively, she in the executive
capacity.

He is also APS' Custodian
of Public Records.

State Law requires him
to facilitate the surrender
of public records to public knowledge.

I have asked him for some public records; those associated with my most recent whistleblower complaint, link.

There is a law that requires Chavez to produce records in an electronic format, if they exist in an electronic format.

Instead, he will insist that I come to his and Armenta's office
to inspect the records, order copies and pay 50 cents a page
for them.

I just received a response from him. You as a taxpayer paid
him to print a letter, fold it, stuff it, stamp it, and carry it to
where ever he must, so it could sit around for awhile before
the US Postal Service got a hold of it. The rest you know.

No where in his letter does he admit his violations of the NMIPRA with respect to at least two hard deadlines. The gist is; he just got it. A lot of my emails evaporate in the ether of APS email delivery.

No acknowledgement of my complaint that Monica Armenta and the APS Police Department will interfere with my right to inspect and copy public records.

He concludes;
if you want copies, the district charges $.50 (50 cents) per page.

What do you want to bet; according to APS and the Modrall
Law Firm (enormously rich and powerful from negotiating
exception to the law for APS senior administrators and board
members;) they will have broken no law.

If you would care to litigate with them for the records, they
would be most happy to entertain any litigation you might
have in mind; cost is no object.

It is fact, what drives them; them and their technicalities,
loopholes and "legal" weaselry.




photo Mark Bralley