Journal takes a superficial glance at APS' audit woes

The Journal is up this morning, link, with the story KRQE broke last Thursday about problems with APS audits.

KOB will come last or not at all, and the mainstream coverage of APS' inability to get it right when it comes to audits will end.

There has not been, nor will there likely be, anything but the most superficial investigation of the problems in the leadership of the APS.

This isn't about just financial audits; in this context audit means any investigation or evaluation of administrative or executive standards and accountability.

APS does audits like they do roofs.  A hundred years later and they still can't get them right.

I once asked APS Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta if she (or anyone else in her department) could point to an audit without "findings".

I asked if there had ever been an audit of administrative or executive standards and accountability, that had no findings at all.  Did they ever once in more than a hundred years, get it right?

I indicated that I would settle for just the latest one.

She chose to not answer.  I assume that means no.

APS once had an audit finding (CoGCS audit, 2007) that; ... the leadership of the APS routinely ignores audit findings.

Is it reasonable to expect that after a hundred years of trying, the leadership of the APS has established standards of conduct and competence that are high enough to protect the public interests in the public schools?

Is it reasonable to expect that after more than a hundred years of trying, they should provide due process for complaints against senior administrators and school board members who have not met those standards?

What would an independent standards and accountability audit of the entire leadership of the APS reveal?  Would auditors find high standards and honest accountability?  If they did, wouldn't that be newsworthy?

Would auditors find inadequate standards and inadequate accountability?  If they did, wouldn't that be newsworthy?

The only reason to not have an independent audit is to protect the interests of the incompetent and the corrupt.

APS Supt Winston Brooks' cannot stand an honest audit of APS administrative standards and accountability.









School Board President and enforcer Marty Esquivel cannot stand an honest audit of APS executive standards and accountability.

By their own admission, school board members are absolutely unaccountable to their own code of ethics; much less as role models of accountability to the same standards they establish and enforce upon students.

Fortunately for Brooks and Esquivel, there is Journal Managing Editor Kent Walz.

As a manifestation of where his loyalties lie, Kent Walz and Marty Esquivel once bamboozled the NM FOG into giving Winston Brooks a hero of transparency award, while at the time and still, Brooks is hiding public records in violation of the not only the law, but an opinion expressed by the FOG itself.

Brooks is hiding the findings of several investigations of allegations of felony criminal misconduct involving APS senior administrators.  Some hero.

Walz is willing ignore the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS on behalf of the leadership of the APS.

He, and the news directors at KRQE, KOAT, and KOB TV.

Walz and the rest could investigate and report upon credible allegations and evidence of an ongoing cover up of felony criminal misconduct.

All any one of them has to do is file a request for public records from the several investigations into incompetence and corruption in the leadership of the APS Police force, link.  They could ask to see the findings of the APS Police force self-investigation of their own felony misconduct.

They won't ask.  If they have asked, they are yet to report that they were told no, you can't have them; not even redacted ones.

I believe KRQE did ask for those records and has dropped the request based on the counsel of their lawyer Marty Esquivel.

Someday, one of the establishment's media will tell stakeholders the truth about what happened in the leadership of APS publicly funded private police force.  They will tell the truth about how it was covered up until statutes of limitation expired on felony criminal misconduct.

One of them will be the first to tell truth,
every other one of them will be among the last.

One of them will be the very last to tell the people the truth about the lack of standards and accountability in the leadership of the APS.




photos Mark Bralley