In public service, guilty knowledge is public corruption.

Public servants are unlike other people in that in order for them to do their jobs, the people have to "trust" them with control over our considerable power and resources.

The trust relationship carries a fiducial obligation to protect the interests of those who trust.

Public servants are first and foremost required protect the public interests.  If a public servant has knowledge of corruption and or incompetence, they are duty bound to address it.  Having knowledge and refusing to act is guilty knowledge.  Because it is deliberate, guilty knowledge is malfeasance.  It is a deliberate decision to not act in the people's interests.

Tellez whispering in Brad Winter's ear.

If APS Police Chief Steve Tellez was part of the corruption that brought down Gil Lovato, he is corrupt.

If Steve Tellez had guilty knowledge of, even if he was not party to, the corruption that brought down Gil Lovato, he is corrupt.

If Steve Tellez had no knowledge of the incompetence and corruption swirling around him in plain sight, he is manifestly incompetent.

The truth about Steve Tellez lies in Caswell I; the findings of an independent investigation into the corruption, link, that brought down Gil Lovato.

APS Supt Winston Brooks and the School Board have Caswell I in their possession and refuse to produce it to public knowledge as is required by the NM Inspection of Public Records Act.  They are currently trying to litigate an exception for themselves in federal court and at great expense to taxpayers and APS' operational budget; funds that would otherwise make their way to classrooms, teachers and students.

Caswell II, the findings of the current independent investigation, the second of Tellez' own corruption or incompetence; will also contain the truth about Steve Tellez.

I expect the truth is inconvenient.

If Caswell II contains truth about Steve Tellez that reflects adversely on APS COO Brad Winter, APS Supt Winston Brooks, or any member of the school board, Caswell II will join Caswell I in secret from public knowledge.

Caswell I is being hidden from public knowledge by APS Supt Winston Brooks with the blessing of the entire board.  (To date, not one board member has called for the production an ethically redacted version of  Caswell I )

Inexplicably,
except for for the possibility of their outright complicity in a conspiracy to cover up the cover up of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators,
the Journal, KRQE, KOAT and KOB have shown no manifest interest in securing a copy of Caswell I to share with their readers and viewers.

Readers and viewers depending on them for the truth,
and who depend on them to inform their democracy.




photo Mark Bralley