If what's good for the goose is just as good for the gander, then something is afoul at the Brownsville Independent School District.
As is our wont, we sent to Requests for Information toe the district's Public information.
One concerned a former BISD administrator. The other concerned the current BISD board's legal counsel Baltazar Salazar.
If you remember previous posts, Salazar applied and came on board in April 2013 without telling the board that he was attempting to fight off an appeal by the Texas Department of Public Safety on the expungement of three felony theft by check charges by a local district court.
Now, the district complied with alacrity to our request for the request for information on the previous district administrator. But in Salazar's case, we received the standard note from BISD staff attorney Leandra Costilla Ortiz that the district was requesting an opinion from the Texas Attorney General's Office and that we would receive a response from Austin "determining whether the information will be withheld or disclosed."
The district further said that it would "submit to your office written comments providing reasons why the stated exceptions (to disclosure) apply that would allow the information to be withheld, and copies of the documents about which the district is seeking an opinion."
We would ask Ms. Ortiz why the district's response differed between these two identical requests.
However, we have been informed that she is no longer with the BISD, having gone through the familiar revolving door to join the Walsh, Anderson, Gallegos, Green & Treviño Law firm. You remember them. They used to hold the BISD contract until a new majority on the board decided they wanted someone else who would put a stop to the hemorrhage of due-process claims against the district.
We can do nothing but await the AG's response to BISD claims for the exception.
But the double standard used here on identical info requests does raise our curiosity. What is in those records that the BISD and Salazar don't want to see the light of day?
10 comments:
The BISD Board can't be expected to ask "common sense" questions, when they are on the grift themselves. The BISD Board are part of the "culture of corruption" in Brownsville.
A crooked School Board, a crooked lawyer. The voters and the Educators (employees) still don't get it.
So Juan, is the Board Member Lopez going to get an top-level job once his time as board member is up? Rumors have it that Board Member Lopez too involved with HR and trying to get "some" employees a raise. So the District has lots of money to throw around when it comes to board member "agendas"?
Tax payer money down the drain!! What about the teachers and the rest of their employees? Will the rest of the Board Members unite in favor of all and not just some that are close to Board Member Lopez?
Hope this coming elections bring the soooo much needed change. God help us!!!!!
There are three new persons running, that would be a good sign. I sure hope so!
JUAN & HIS RED HERRING
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Red herrings play two important roles in a mystery novel as this one. They heighten suspense and add greater challenge to a mystery puzzle by MISLEADING THE READER and or the sleuth. This red herring is a false clue(s) that a mystery writer uses to send readers and sleuths off in directions that do not lead to the apprehension of the real target.
Juan, you & your cronies are leading yourselves into a "Fools Paradise" with your low-budget investigation into the BOARD/BISD lawyer. Trust me, you are wasting your time, because no matter what you write it will not amount to any substantive outcome. The only one who is going to look like a fool is you. After you completely get this story out of your misguided system, I will return and remind you that all the ranting and raving was to NO AVAIL, just another of your RED HERRING'S.
Juan, too bad you can't see neither the trees nor the forest on this one, just the RED HERRING or can we call it the GREEN HERRING.
By: La Pink Mimosa
but you are worried enough to write about it
....No Worries, just entertained by the amount of wasted energy & hot air used in this story.....
Folks, continue going down your rabbit's trail.
Last resort, maybe a Card Reader will be your next order of business for your sources.
Juan, for now, you & the rest of the rug rats remain running in place much like the hamster on the wheel, going round & round with NO WHERE TO GO as you foolishly exercise in futility....
By:
La Voz D'La Chupa-Rosa D'Mimosa
As a citizen and taxpayer of BISD all I can deduce is a crooked board with a Shyster lawyer . Just look at the record.
The board members that condon this attorney's criminal record are the corrupt ones. They can't make any more obvious. Shameful people.
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