APS could tell the truth today

APS spends around a half a million dollars a year on its Communications Dept.

About a fourth of that goes to roof top singer, link, Monica Armenta.

Exec Director of Communications Armenta could tell the truth today.  She could step up as one of the senior most role models of student standards of conduct, and show them what it looks like to be candid, forthright and honest.

She could tell the community what the leadership of the APS intends to do with the findings from Caswell APS Police investigation number two.

She could continue, by telling the community why the findings of Caswell APS Police investigation number one are still secret from public knowledge, seven years nearly to the day, after they were turned over to the leadership of the APS.

She won't of course because that's not what APS Supt Winston Brooks pays her to do.  She isn't making over a hundred grand a year to be candid, forthright and honest about problems in the leadership of the APS.

People acting in their own interests is nothing new.  Betrayal hits harder.  I'm talking about the local media; the Journal, KRQE, KOAT, and KOB.

To the extent they claim to be acting in the capacity of a free press illuminating the democracy, they should be fighting the leadership of the APS over our right to an ethically redacted version of Caswell 1; public records of findings of an investigation of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators.

Not only is the local media not fighting over them, they are keeping the whole thing secret.

• Why won't they tell interest holders that APS is hiding Caswell 1 while starting Caswell 2?

• Why won't they tell interest holders that APS is spending operational funds on litigation in federal court, in an effort to keep Caswell 1 hidden in violation of the NM Inspection of Public Records Act?

• Why won't they tell them that starting Caswell 2 before the criminal investigation will obfuscate the filing of criminal charges over felony theft and God only knows what else.  This is APS' standard dodge for insulating themselves from criminal charges stemming from their corruption?

• Why won't they tell interest holders that Caswell 1 never even made it to the DA and statutes of limitation on felony criminal misconduct have since expired?

• Why won't they tell interest holders that the only agency of law enforcement that investigated the felony criminal misconduct was the APS Police force itself.  The current APS Chief of Police Steve Gallegos, ran the 2007 investigation.

Except that they are in cahoots in the cover up of the cover up?

According to a recent Council of the Great City Schools audit, evaluation in the leadership of the APS is "... subjective and unrelated to promotion and step placement".  The subjective evaluation is of the candidates ability to contain spills and keep their mouth shut.

Promotion in the leadership of the APS Police force correlates rather precisely with who is willing to cover up what.

That's why Steve Tellez was Chief.

That's why Steve Gallegos is Chief.
He and I have a history, link.

Monica Armenta could produce an ethically redacted public record of all of the investigations into public corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS Police.

She could, but she won't.

She won't because that's not what we pay her more than three teacher salaries every year, to do.




photos Mark Bralley