Blogger and photojournalist Mark Bralley has been banned from City Center.
The most important thing to note about the banning letter,
it was created without due process for Bralley.
The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution reads in significant part; Mark Bralley cannot be
deprived of ... liberty ... without due process of law.Bralley has not lost his liberty to a piece of paper,
his liberty was taken from him by an armed, unaccredited
and un-certified publicly funded private police force.
A police force that reports directly to, and only to,
the supt and board members.
Complaints over the denial of due process they perpetrate
can be filed with any of Maes, Brooks, or Winter,
your choice and with similar effect.
There are no legitimate limits on liberty outside the law.
Laws are the only legitimate limits on liberty.
If Bralley has broken some law, why haven't Maes, Brooks and Winter filed charges? Why aren't they looking to the court system for a legal restraining order instead of creating one of their own? And, instead of creating the appearance of conflicts of interests that scream foul play?
Because no honest judge would give them one.
Because in any venue where there is due process,
Bralley will be completely exonerated.
As would I, for that matter.
The letter is first signed bySchool Board President Paula
"it's good for parents to
get in teacher's faces
every once in awhile" Maes.
It is signed next by Supt Winston Brooks.Brooks doesn't want Bralley to capture
the look on his face when he tries to tell
interest holders they have no right to even
ethically redacted versions of the findings
of at least three investigations into felony
criminal misconduct by senior APS administrators.
Officer Brad Winter.
Winter shares Brooks' apparent conflict
of interest.
He is trying to oust a photojournalist
prepared to capture his face while he
tries to explain to interest holders, why
they have no right to a candid,
forthright and honest accounting of
his spending at 6400 Uptown Blvd.
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| The "Twins"; how they spent our money there is Winter's secret. |
can be filed with any of Maes, Brooks, or Winter,
your choice and with similar effect.
Conveniently, Maes, Brooks and Winter have a Praetorian Guard to keep dissenters at bay.
Two of them, fully armed, showed up at Bralley's home, to hand deliver the letter.
The establishment's press is nowhere to be found.
photos Mark Bralley
4 comments:
How can an APS school police representative serve a letter to an adult's home when that letter does not concern his/her child?
Don't they have jurisdiction limits, like city, state, tribal and Federal policing agents? Or are they beyond such things as jurisdictions?
And yet they say they can't/won't arrest violent parents at sports games...that is öutside"of their "powers".
Where are their jurisdictional limits and powers defined?
Is that not trespassing, and possibly harrassment to show up at his door?
This is more like Nazi gestapo than a force that operates under NM laws.
It could well be that using their police force to intimidate photojournalists off campus, violates the MOU with the BCSO.
Whether one could do anything about that, is questionable. Sheriff Houston did nothing about the APS police force hiding the evidence of their own felony criminal misconduct.
I don't know if anyone else has had this experience, but the last 3 board meetings were not streamed live at all. All we get ( usually not as advertised, by the Sat. after the meeting) is the edited version. I watched the Oct.3rd meeting and again there were parts that were garbled, leading one to suspect they are edited before going on line. It would be damn funny if a bunch of people turned up with their own camcorders next meeting. How much of that can the media really ignore?
Jurisdictional question then: If the APS force is sanctioned under Houston and the county, then are they legally ooperating within the city (APD jurisdiction) off school grounds.
I don't believe that Houston has the authority nor power to allow his sanctioned officers (APSPD or otherwise) to operate within Metro boundaries, especially when it is not student-related.
I see a BIGGGG problem of jurisdiction, and if they are ooperating out of jurisdiction, then an NM State complaint needs to be made, and it goes from "serving papers" to harrassment.
If they had sent a courier service to deliver the papers, they might have been within their rights. Sending their county-sanctioned officers (assuming the residence was within metro) w/o approval/notification of APD was probably way crossing a legal line!
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