KRQE Esquivel conflicts of interest and propriety

KRQE has a responsibility to investigate and report upon the Albuquerque Public Schools, including potentially, public corruption and incompetence that reaches to the highest level.

School Board enforcer Marty Esquivel is their lawyer.

He is the lawyer supposed to be getting APS to surrender an ethically redacted copy of the Caswell Report on the investigation of felony criminal misconduct by APS senior administrators. That and the findings of as many two other investigations into corruption and incompetence in the leadership of APS' publicly funded private police force.

One minute Esquivel is wearing his KRQE hat and demanding the surrender of public records as required under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records, and in the next minute spends APS operational funds, money that could be spent in classrooms, to keep them hidden from public knowledge, for no reason except to cover up a cover up of felony criminal misconduct.

If that isn't a conflict of interest, what is?

If that isn't the appearance of impropriety, what is?

All KRQE has to do, in order to exonerate themselves as a news organization, is to explain why a conspiracy to cover up corruption in the leadership of the APS police force, is not newsworthy.

As for 7 and 4, KOAT's Mary Lynn Roper has no intention of investigating credible allegations and evidence of the denial of due process to whistleblowers; an investigation that would lead directly to her good friend, School Board President Paula Maes, who once freely admitted,
she would never agree to any audit that individually identifies corrupt or incompetent administrators or board members.

All Roper has to do, is explain why the denial of due process to hundreds of whistleblower complaints and complainants, link, is not newsworthy.

All I can say about KOB is that I know they know, and they're not doing anything that APS Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta wouldn't approve of. They could exonerate themselves, by simply investigating and reporting upon even one of a number of credible allegations,

• APS' refusal to surrender ethically redacted public records of findings of at least three investigations of felony criminal misconduct in the APS Police, and the subsequent failure to surrender evidence to the DA for criminal prosecution.
• APS refusal to surrender a candid forthright and honest accounting of spending at 6400 Uptown Blvd. This, though they intend to ask voters to pass another bond issue in a few months.
• There are two standards of conduct in the APS. One represents the lowest standards of conduct acceptable among civilized people, the other, a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of the ethical conduct. The one applies to administrators and board members, the other to students.
• The board's denial of due process to a petition signed by more than one hundred citizens, the Citizens Advisory Council on Communication, in order obfuscate an effort to establish open and honest two-way communication between the leadership of the APS and the Community members they serve.
• The use of a publicly funded private police force, a Praetorian Guard, to deny citizens the free exercise of their Constitutionally protected human rights to assemble, speak freely and petition their government for redress of grievances, link.

or in the alternative, explain why not one of them is worthy of investigation and report.

As for Kent Walz and the Journal, note that when the APS School Board rewrote school board policy to do away with citizens advisory councils entirely, he chose to not tell citizens.

I don't care what Walz finally writes, he is beyond exoneration.

He cannot report credibly on corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS, without first reporting upon his abject failure to do so heretofore, and that will never happen.




photos and Walz frame grab Mark Bralley