Monica Armenta is a named respondent in a federal complaint.

It represents a violation of the First Amendment, for government to make a law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.  In this case, for APS Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta, to make a law, rule, policy, regulation, or stipulation abridging the freedom of the press.

A central question is, who is the press? Who is protected by the First Amendment under the cover of the press? Whatever "the press" was at that time the First Amendment was written, the press included pamphleteers.  What is a blogger, if not a pamphleteer in the digital age?

A more basic decision is, who gets to decide who is protected by the First Amendment and who is not?

Armenta took it upon herself to decide that the protection of equal treatment, did not apply to me. Worse, she denied me equal treatment in response to my exercise of constitutionally protected activities.

In other words, she denied me access to the Gubernatorial debate for no good reason, except in retaliation for my exercise of a protected activity; I wrote a few posts highly critical of her public service, a few indeed.



APS Supt Winston Brooks is a named respondent. He is, because he ordered his publicly funded private police force to keep me from attending a Gubernatorial Debate, and in so doing violated my rights. Worse, he did it in retaliation for my exercise of constitutionally protected activities; I have written a few posts highly critical of his competence and conduct.  I have showed up at a few public forums and asked him to explain why he is covering up felony criminal misconduct by senior APS administrators.


APS Chief of Police Steve Tellez is a named respondent. He is, because he is in charge of an armed and uniformed praetorian guard, and is using them to enforce an unlawful banning order, he co-signed.





APS Director of Communications Rigo Chavez is named, in his official capacity as Custodian of Public Records. It wasn't his decision to hide the findings of investigations into felony criminal misconduct by senior APS administrators.

He is a flak catcher, the person who ordered him to deny a legitimate public records request, is yet to be identified; the buck stopping at Winston Brooks desk.

Board Member David Robbins
is named. He is named because
he threw me out of an audit
committee meeting for no good
reason.

He and APS' Police force.




School Board enforcer Marty
Esquivel is named, for
throwing me out of a meeting
for no good reason, and for
creating an unlawful
restraining order that prevents
me from showing up at a
public forum to petition him
face to face, for redress of
my several grievances.




photos Mark Bralley