There are no role models in the leadership of the APS

There is not a single administrator or board member willing to stand up and accept honest accountability as a role model of the student standard of conduct;

the Pillars of Character Counts!;

a nationally accepted, recognized, and respected code of ethical conduct;

for even the few hours a day that they hold students accountable to that standard.

There are two explanations;

1. They are not willing, personally, to be held honestly accountable to a higher standard of conduct.

2. They are afraid of the retribution and retaliation that they will suffer if they stand up for what they believe in.

If there is a third explanation, I cannot imagine it; and the leadership of the APS cannot articulate it.



This posts substantially reflects a discussion thread that I started on the KOB TOPIX FORUM this morning.

Those who are waiting for the perfect circumstances to act;

have found only the perfect circumstance,
for not acting at all.

Open letter to Journal reporter Andrea Schoellkopf

Zsombor Peter has not attended any of the most recent
school board meetings. It appears that Schoellkopf is now
the "education" reporter for the Journal.

I took the opportunity to send her a letter this morning
in response to Gordy Rowe announcing the name of the
successor to the school board seat he is abandoning.

(Ms. Schoellkopf)

Before I write anything unkind on my blog I would
appreciate it, if you would read a couple of posts

(Maes, Esquivel, and now Barela)
(APS' Paula Maes sez NO AUDIT)
(both of which follow this post)

and then perhaps offer me a statement that I can quote
in my essay about why you/the Journal will not
investigate and report upon the need for an immediate
full scale forensic audit of the entire leadership of the APS,
and upon
their refusal to respond candidly, forthrightly and
honestly to even one legitimate question about
why they will NOT begin the audit.

respectfully

ched macquigg

Schoellkopf has personally witnessed the board and administration stonewalling the issue of an audit, and has so far, written not one word.

Maes, Esquivel, and now Barela

It used to be that the APS school board selected its own
members. link page 12

They still do.

When Leonard DeLayo decided to resign rather than answer
tough questions on the record, during a re-election bid,
the board picked Marty Esquivel as his replacement.

I told you at the time about how Paula Maes and Marty Esquivel exchanged a long hug before the first meeting of all of the candidates in the last school board election.

I told you how as everyone spoke their last at that meeting; candidates would leave saying, "If I am elected, I look forward to serving with you.", and I told you how Marty Esquivel said simply, "I look forward to serving with you." His appointment was certain.

If you don't think Marty Esquivel was "appointed to the board,
by the board", how do you explain his subsequent support of
every rotten thing the board is doing; most notably;
refusing to respond candidly, forthrightly and honestly to legitimate questions about;

• administrative role modeling,
• administrative standards of conduct and competence,
• administrative accountability to meaningful standards, and
• their relentless refusal to defend, deny, explain, or even acknowledge their refusal to begin an impartial audit of the entire leadership of the APS (despite overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence of the need.)

If Marty Esquivel could deny any of this he would.
He would take a public stand on role modeling, standards and
accountability, and on an audit.

He can't even look constituents in the eyes at board meetings.

None of them can.


And Jon Barela will be the next board member from District 7.

And he will arrive at that position, never having had to answer
a very legitimate question;

Are you willing to hold yourself honestly accountable as a role model of the student standard of conduct; for the measly few hours a day that you hold students accountable to that same standard?

Any answer except yes, is no.
"Stonewalling" is no.

How can anyone get "installed" on a school board,
how can anyone sit on a school board,
how can one be a superintendent,
the senior most administrative role model in the entire district;

never having had to answer that question?


Because nobody is willing to stand up to them and
put an end to it.

Because when it comes right down to it,
Somebody (else) should do something!

cc Esquivel upon posting

Gordy Rowe announces his replacement; to serve for the next four years.

APS is going to take a giant step into the past tomorrow
morning. At at early morning meeting tomorrow, the board
will begin the process of filling Gordy Rowe's school board
seat with another APS good ol' boy Jon Barela.
Barela currently co-chairs the powerful APS Foundation.

Recently a Town Hall Report was prepared by a group
called New Mexico First. The report revealed the manner
in which the APS good ol' boys used to fix school board
membership. link page 12

From 1913-1962, elections were held every two years but a non-incumbent was rarely elected to the board.
(If an incumbent board member decided not to stand for re-election, he or she would resign early. The board itself, including the departing member, would select the replacement, who would then run as an incumbent in the upcoming election.)

Rowe announced at the school board meeting last night
link sub req. that his replacement will serve for the next
four years - unclear how the election scheduled for February
will be circumvented.

The board's biggest problem right now, is to install their
good ol' boy replacement, while making stakeholders feel
like they actually had a hand in the replacement;
similar to the sham process they used to install Winston Brooks;
a process which you recall did not involve candidates having
to answer a single honest question; even in town hall meetings
whose announced purpose was the opportunity to "grill" the
candidates.

I would like to go on record right now with a prediction;
Jon Barela will find himself on the school board without
ever having to answer questions on the record, about;

1. administrative role modeling of the student standard of conduct;
2. administrative standards of conduct and competence;
3. administrative accountability to those standards, or about
4. an immediate full scale forensic audit of the entire leadership of the APS.

It fascinates me that they can do this in plain sight
and still no one will stand up to oppose them.

APS' Paula Maes sez; "NO AUDIT"

APS school board head honcho, Paula Maes has stated flatly that she will never allow any audit of the leadership that would individually identify any corrupt or incompetent administrator or board member.

Maes, and her husband's law firm, Modrall, call the shots in the APS.

There will never be an audit of the public interests in the public schools despite;

Governor Bill Richardson's admission that; the leadership of the APS has a statewide earned reputation for financial accountability.

And despite the recently completed Meyners Audit, which revealed that APS spends a billion tax dollars every year, without adequate rules, without adequate enforcement of the rules, and without keeping adequate records of spending.

Unless there has been a miracle; millions of tax dollars likely have gone missing.

Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez says, the lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS is so profound, as to justify the appointment of school board members by the mayor's office.

Former APS Chief of Police, Gil Lovato was quoted in the Journal saying, if the truth ever gets out, there won't be a single APS senior administrator left standing.

The APS cannot pass another mill levy or bond issue past voters, even if our children's education depended on it.

There is an accountability crisis in the leadership of the APS.
Paula Maes says she will never allow an audit that would sort it all out.

There is no one in the APS powerful enough to contradict Maes.

There is only one force powerful enough to put Maes in her place; and begin an immediate, impartial, full scale, forensic audit of the APS;

... you. You, and perhaps a hundred or more of your friends and fellow tax payers.

You can go to the board meeting tonight to demand an audit of your interests in the public schools.

Nothing would go further to repair public perceptions of the lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS, than a clean audit.

If the leadership of the APS could survive an audit, they would conduct an audit; if for no other reason than to restore their public image.

There is no reason not to begin the audit, except that it will cost as much as $100,000; less than one ten thousandth of the budget, and far less than the money than will be saved by eliminating corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS.

The audit is a threat to no one who is doing their job competently and honestly.

There is no reason not to begin the audit,
except to protect the corrupt and the incompetent
in the leadership of the APS.



You are invited to the board meeting tonight
5pm at 6400 Uptown Blvd,
south of Coronado shopping center

to re-establish your control over power and resources
that are fundamentally your own.

Never has there been a more profound opportunity
to strike a blow against public corruption and
incompetence in public service.

I cannot imagine anything more important
that you could be doing instead.

You will be done by 5:30.

Winston Brooks in the Journal

Apparently, Winston Brooks will be given a full column in the
Journal once a month. The first installment showed up this
morning. link sub req

I really can't take issue with anything that he wrote; except
that it is all dishonest. It is dishonest because he will not
take questions on any of it.

Winston Brooks will not sit down at a public meeting and
promise to respond to legitimate questions with candid,
forthright and honest answers.

It is not just my questions about; spending, standards,
accountability, and administrative role modeling that he will
not answer.

He will not answer any question whose answer will reveal
an inconvenient truth. He will not communicate in the
honest sense of the word. He may listen to input, he may
disseminate information, but he will never just sit down and
agree to answer any legitimate question candidly, honestly
and forthrightly. He is not honest.

So what difference does it make, what he promises us in
his monthly column? If he isn't honest, he forfeits the right
to to expect to be believed, even when he is telling the truth.

Is APS' Winston Brooks a role model? of what? so what?

Of course Winston Brooks is a role model.

But of what? for whom? and does it make any difference
at all?

If one puts little credence in the concept, and assigns little
importance to it, then all of these questions become an
exercise in semantics. We will draw distinctions without
difference.

But if one believes in the effect of role modeling, and
assigns some importance to that role, then questions about
role modeling are not only appropriate but useful.

Winston Brooks is a role model, for students, of the
student standard of conduct. Students look to him for
an example of the conduct that is expected of them.

But what if someone was concerned that Winston Brooks
was not a good role model of the student standard of
conduct? Should there be some way, some where, that
they can lodge a complaint and expect a fair hearing of the
complaint?

There is no place in the APS to lodge that complaint.

Language was removed from the administrative code of
conduct, the only language which specifically addressed
the concept of administrative role modeling of the student
standard of conduct was stripped from the administrative
code of conduct, by administrators who did not want to be
held accountable as role models.

There is no where to file a complaint over bad role modeling.

There is no where to file a complaint that the concept of
role modeling has been stripped from the expectations of
administrators and board members.

The only place that a complaint can be lodged is at a board
meeting; and only during the public forum, and only if you
are "allowed" to state the complaint.

And if you do, no matter how you do it, you will be labeled
a crack pot or worse. The abuse will continue until you
either give up or go away.

If we really want our children to grow up to embrace
honor and courage and character, someone has to show
them what it looks like.

If you think the obligations of role modeling start at the
top, start with the superintendent and the school board,
the only place you can express your beliefs is at a school
board meeting, and during the public forum.

If you can get anyone at all to stand up too,
both of you will be less likely to be branded as crack pots
or worse, for trying to put the issue on the table.

Open letter to NMAG Gary King

Sir,

Almost two years ago, credible allegations of felony criminal abuse of Darren White's NCIC criminal data base, by senior administrators of the APS, were made public.

Impartial evidence of the public corruption and criminal conspiracy was gathered by an independent investigator.

The evidence was supposedly turned over to 2nd Judicial District Attorney Kari Brandenburg for a decision whether or not to pursue felony criminal prosecutions of any or all the the APS senior administrators that were implicated in the scandal.

In response to a public records request for an ethically redacted version of the evidence that had been surrendered to her, she refused.

She claimed that every word was excepted from the requirements of your New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. She claimed that every word was protected by virtue of "ongoing investigation".

Your office offered no help in making her comply with the law.

In response to a request for any public record that showed that there actually was any "ongoing investigation" taking place; she choose to simply ignore the request, claiming the same exception.

The subsequent complaint to your office has been ignored as well; it has not even appeared on your website as you have promised.

Further, I am in hope that it falls within your ability, to hold District Attorney Brandenburg's toes to the fire on her failure to complete the investigation in a timely manner.

The two highest ranking APS administrators implicated in the scandal have already retired; one, Beth Everitt, has already fled the jurisdiction. and the other, Tom Savage, has announced plans that he will.

It is important that Kari Brandenburg's "investigation" be completed and released to voters before the re-election of incumbent school board members, and before her own re-election.



The abject lack of accountability is disconcerting. The lack of candid, forthright and honest responses to legitimate questions about the public interests is frankly, frightening.

It serves only to cement a wide spread public perception that public service is corrupt and incompetent, and invulnerable to attempts to hold individual public servants accountable for their public corruption and incompetence.

The perception that there is no justice in the justice system
for the little guy; only for the good ol' boys in public service.

There is little if any, evidence to the contrary.


cc Gary King upon posting.



end note: after posting, and after Gary King acknowledged receipt of the cc.

I have asked repeatedly for an accommodation of a personal disability in the inspection of the public records that I have requested. Rigo Chavez has ignored as many as four emails regarding the disability and the requested accommodation.

Assistant Attorney General Zackary Shandler refuses to acknowledge receipt of my fax asking for his assistance on the issue.

DA Brandenburg sitting on evidence

Nearly two years ago, the Albuquerque Journal and broadcast media reported on a scandal in the leadership of the APS (Police Department).

Then US Attorney David Iglesias reported that the criminal misuse of Darren White's criminal background check system was criminal misconduct of the highest order.

An independent investigator was hired to investigate and report upon the alleged public corruption and criminal conspiracy.

His report was (supposedly) turned over to 2nd Judicial District Attorney Kari Brandenburg, to determine if criminal misconduct had occurred, and then to decide if the public interest would be served by criminal prosecution of the APS administrators who had been implicated.

Almost two years later; still nothing.

All DA Brandenburg had to do was read the report(s) and make a decision whether or not to prosecute.

In the time that Brandenburg has been sitting on the evidence, two of the highest ranking APS administrators implicated in the scandal, have retired and moved on to greener pastures.

Brandenburg apparently intends to run for re-election without ever having taken action on a case so important to the community.

Why?

It is a fair question; one worthy of the asking, and
one worthy of a candid, forthright, and honest answer.

Brandenburg will not even admit that the impartial investigation was even turned over to her office.

There is the possibility that it may not have been.

APS will neither confirm, nor deny, that it turned over this important evidence to the office of the District Attorney for her consideration.

And the beat goes on,
and on, and on.

Perhaps Lisa Torraco, who is running against Brandenburg
in the upcoming election, will make answering the question a priority.

APS/UNM; polishing the image conundrum

The Journal reports, link sub req, that UNM is going to spend
another 4M tax dollars to polish its image.

"The university plans to spend more than $4.4 million
this year on strategists, marketing campaigns and
in-house communications staffers, a Journal review
has found. "

If they spent the same four million on a plan to
actually address the problems that are tarnishing its image;
their image likely would not need polishing.

"The university's reputation is directly connected with
student success," (UNM President) Schmidly said ..."

Well ya, it is; but in the opposite direction. Student success
is more likely to improve the University's reputation than
their reputation is likely to improve student success.


By the same logic, if the APS spent $4M polishing its image,
if they hired another $4M worth of Monica Armentas,
strategists, marketing campaigns and in-house
communications staffers, Albuquerqueans would have
the finest school system in the country.

And while APS will be inclined to follow in UNM"s footsteps,
and increase its spin budget, to increase student success;

there is still time to stand in the way of their plan.

It is too late for the 4M tax dollars that will be spent
spinning the truth at UNM.

Do you feel afraid to petition your government?

One of the most important rights that you own as a citizen of the United States is your right to petition your government.

How comfortable do you feel doing it?

Could you go a school board meeting, city council meeting, or a county commission meeting and express your disapproval of some aspect of their public service?

If you are afraid, it is because you are afraid of the abuse of power.

Why would you be afraid that a public servant might abuse their power?

Is it because for the most part, there is no real accountability for the abuse of power, or for those who abuse power?

Socrates argued that, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I would add that it is only "power without accountability" that corrupts; absolutely.

There is no reason that you should be afraid of your servant, except that your servant is out of your control.

For as long as they can keep citizens afraid to petition their government, they will continue to abuse their power to make citizens afraid to hold them accountable; afraid to petition them.

For as long as you are afraid to petition your government
you will remain afraid to petition your government.


imho

What keeps you from standing up?

What keeps you from standing up at the public forum at the
next school board meeting and reading the following statement;

There is a public perception of a lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS.

New Mexico State Governor Bill Richardson said; the leadership of the APS has a state wide earned reputation for its lack of financial accountability.

The recent Meyners Audit of the APS Financial Division
revealed that a billion tax dollars were being spent every
year in a division where;

• there were not adequate written financially sound rules,
• there was inadequate enforcement of those rules, and
• there was inadequate record keeping.

Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez tried to change the law
to allow him to appoint school board members, out of his
concern for their lack of accountability.

Former Albuquerque Public Schools Chief of Police,
Gil Lovato, who was placed on administrative leave for six
months, rather than allow him to testify in open court,
said;

when the truth gets out, there won't be a single senior
administrator left standing.

There is every reason to demand an immediate full scale
forensic accountability audit of the entire leadership of the
APS.

There is no apparent reason not to begin that audit,
except to protect the corrupt and the incompetent in the
leadership of the APS.

If you have a good and ethical reason that you are not
beginning the audit; you must share it with stakeholders.

If you have a good and ethical reason to prevent even the
discussion of your refusal to begin the audit; you must
share it with stakeholders.

thank you.

US Senator Pete Domenici plays "dumb"

I was surprised that I actually got through on the phone
lines on the Bob Clark show.

I thanked the senator for his contribution to Character Counts!

He is in fact a founding father.

Then I asked him if he was at all disappointed that the
leadership of the APS had renounced the Pillars of Character Counts! as their own standard of conduct.

He claimed to be unaware.

There is more than enough evidence to prove that if he
really is unaware, it is by his deliberate choice.

The only other possibility would be that Lisa Breeden
had made a deliberate effort to keep the information from
him.

I have talked to Lisa Breeden personally. She knew.

It is noteworthy that Lisa Breeden was a member of the
APS Character Counts! Leadership Council;

a still secret group of people who apparently organized
for the purpose of securing a sizable federal grant through
Senator Domenici's office, and nothing else.

It appears that retiring US Senator Pete Domenici's
Character Counts! legacy will be severely stained.

That would be a real shame.

All he has to do to refute any of this, is to do something
about the fact that the leadership of the APS has secretly
renounced any accountability at all, to the
APS Student Standard of Conduct;

the Pillars of Character Counts!

All he has to do

... is anything at all.




For the record, this post was read by the Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate at 10:32:31 this morning. Senator Pete Domenici is aware; or chooses not to be.

Does this make me a crack pot?

I wore an elephant mask to two board meetings.



At the second of those two meetings, I was arrested for the sixth time,

by a public funded, private police force that is accountable only to the leadership of the APS.

I was illegally arrested for exercising my constitutionally protected human right to free speech, and my right to petition my government.

I did nothing illegal, nor more importantly, any thing unethical.

All I have ever done, is to point publicly to the absolute lack of real accountability in the leadership of the APS.

Bill Richardson says, the leadership of the APS has an earned statewide reputation for its lack of (financial) accountability.

Marty Chavez says, the lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS is so great, as to warrant changing the law to allow him to appoint his own school board.

I say, there is a lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS that is so great that they will not even discuss it, and

and a lack of standards and accountability so great that they cannot survive an honest and impartial accountability audit, or even talk about one, and

I am labeled a crack pot, and worse.

I have never done anything at a board meeting that I would not be proud to have witnessed by any of the many thousands of students that I taught that

... their character really does count.



And yet, I am a crack pot, and worse.

this sucks.

Little known fact about "school years"

If you wanted to start a spirited discussion around public
schools, you could start with the definition of the school year.

You will find people who want to start earlier, and those who
feel as strongly that school should start later.

There are two "givens"; a school year will include 183 days,
and the first semester will end before the Christmas break.

The first semester has to end before the break, because
if you send kids home for two weeks and then administer
final exams; the scores on the exams will go way down.

Which speaks to the permanency of the learning;
and the very effectiveness of public school education.

Therefore, final exams will always precede winter break.

APS code of conduct for fans at sporting events

APS board member Marty Esquivel was upset by the behavior
of some parents at a student athletic event.

As a result he would like to pass a code of conduct for fans.
link

I listened to callers on the Jim Villanucci show, albeit not
a statistically average sampling of stakeholders, and I have
read comments on at least two forums dedicated to the subject
also not a statistically useful sampling.

It appears that Esquivel will pass his plan only over some
serious objections. Or more likely, he will pass the plan
without even considering those serious objections.

For the record, I fall on the side of those who think that
something must be done to curtail the activities of abusive
parents and fans. I think that we can have quality athletic
competition without being disrespectful and rude to
children or to referees.

Others disagree, vehemently. They think that this behavior
is all part of the game, and "toughens kids up, in preparation
for life".

It would be nice if the final decision reflected the meaningful
participation of stakeholders. I suspect that it will be just
another dictum laid down from on high.

The most disturbing part of the whole thing from my
perspective, is that the kind of behavior that Esquivel is
trying to curtail, is already prohibited by an existing policy;
the student standard of conduct; the Pillars of Character
Counts.

The prohibition is passed on to parents and spectators
by simply insisting that they be role models of the
student standard, while they are attending school sponsored
activities.

Esquivel is understandably reticent to mention anything
about the student standard of conduct, because he and
the board have excepted themselves from accountability
to the standard; they have abdicated as the senior most
role models of the student standard of conduct.*

*They did this by eliminating from their own code of conduct
the phrase;

in no case shall the standard of conduct for adults
be lower than the standard of conduct for students.

Frankly, Esquivel and the rest of the leadership of the APS
are just a bunch of hypocrites, and they have no more
hope of enforcing this policy, than they have for enforcing
any other policy.

Worth noting; students are in charge in schools.
It is their will (regarding the following of rules) that is
being done. There is not a campus in the entire APS
where you cannot witness the permission of prohibited
behavior; students breaking rules without consequence.

Esquivel and the leadership will make themselves look good
for the news; and that's about it.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but;

every single impartial audit of any division of the
administration of the APS, has revealed significant
administrative failure.

There has never been an audit of the most senior APS
administrators; the ones a step above the division leaders.

To illustrate;

an audit (impartial investigation) of the APS police
department revealed significant administrative failure.
But the senior administrator above the police
department one Tom Savage, was never audited on
his responsibility for letting the Police Department
get so far out of hand.

an audit of the Finance Division revealed significant
administrative failure. But the senior administrator
above the Finance Division, one Tom Savage,
was never audited on his responsibility for letting
the Finance Division get so far out of hand.

School board head honcho, Paula Maes said on the record;
"I will never allow an audit that will individually identify (corrupt and/or incompetent) administrators;like for example; Tom Savage."

They will argue that Tom Savage was fired for his
incompetence and/or corruption.

I would argue that retiring with honors
doesn't really count as being "fired".

Like Gil Lovato's half a year of paid leave
doesn't really count at being "fired".


The point is that, Tom Savage has been replaced with
another good ol' boy. Nothing has changed.
They got caught screwing up big time;
so they threw Tom Savage off the train,

and now its back to business as usual.

The corrupt and/or incompetent good ol' boy that ran the
APS Finance Division

• without financially sound policies, and
• without accountability to such policies as there were, and
• who didn't keep records accurate and complete enough to send anyone to jail,

has been replaced by a good ol' boy who
has been aware of the problems for years, and
never reported them.

Good ol' boys don't blow the whistle on good ol' boys.

And then they get promoted.


Winston Brooks, any board member, any senior administrator
could refute these allegations if they were untrue.

They can't refute them because; they are true.

So he/they will stonewall the question.

If Winston Brooks had a good reason;
if he had any reason at all not to begin an immediate
full scale accountability audit of the leadership of the APS,

he would say it.

He wouldn't be ducking the question.


And there is not a damn thing you can do about it.

With the possible exception of being one of a large enough
crowd that shows up a board meeting and demands an
immediate audit of the leadership of the APS;

an audit that will individually identify the corrupt, the
incompetent, and the practices that enable them.


They can only get away with this for as long as
you let them.

the truth is;

if you asked Winston Brooks, or any APS board member,
or any senior APS administrator,

if they will just sit down somewhere, some day,

and answer legitimate questions about the public interests;

the answer is no.

And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

With the possible exception of; being one of a large enough
crowd, that could show up at a board meeting
and demand an audit that will expose corruption,
incompetence, and the policies, procedures and practices
that enable them.

APS "edits" public forum; again

It has to do with your right to petition your government.

Your only opportunity to petition your representative on
the APS board of education, face to face,
is the public forum at a school board meeting.

A "video tape" is made of the meeting. The version that is
broadcast to the community, is compilation of footage from
a number of cameras.

The overt promise made by the leadership of the APS was;
no matter which camera footage is used, there will be a
continuous and unbroken recording of the meeting.

At the last school board meeting, I stood up at the public
forum, and suggested that there is a public perception that
the leadership of the APS was so corrupt and so incompetent
that it could not survive and honest an impartial audit.

I further suggested that the perception could be laid to rest
by a clean audit.

And further that, the leadership of the APS has an obligation
to either begin an audit, or offer up a candid, forthright, and
honest explanation why they will not.

The version of the meeting that APS gave to TalNet was
flawed. As soon as the public forum began, the audio
disappeared.

Is it possible that the two APS technicians that record
the meeting; are too incompetent to produce a clean
copy?

(Is is possible that the leadership of the APS owns
twenty three million dollars worth of accounting software,
that no one in the APS knows how to run?)

Was it an accident that the the inconvenient truth was
kept from stakeholders; again?

At least a dozen times before, I have been edited out of
the version of the meeting that is broadcast to the
community.

At least a dozen times before, I asked the leadership of
the APS why they are not honestly accountable to
meaningful standards of conduct and competence.

At least a dozen times before, that question, and their
response; stonewalling, didn't make it to stakeholders.

Six times, their Praetorian Guard;

• a publicly funded, private police force
• certificated by no one
• accredited by no one, and
• accountable to no one except the leadership of the APS

has arrested me in order to keep me from asking that question on the record.

Once, I was arrested by no less than their new chief
of police, Bill Reed, for wearing a elephant mask, and
standing quietly in the back of the board room.

Accident? Coincidence? Incompetence? Malice? Betrayal?

You tell me.

Better yet; you tell them.

Better still; tell the media that you want a candid, forthright,
and honest report from them,
on the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of
the APS.