KRQE, KOAT, and KOB TV cowardly or corrupt?

There is an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.

All anyone in the media, or anyone else for that matter, has to do to investigate the allegation to their complete and utter satisfaction, is write an email to
APS Director of Communications and Custodian of Public Records Rigo Chavez.

They don't have to go anywhere, they don't have to do anything, and they don't have to believe anybody.  All they have to do is ask to see the public record.

All they have to do is request that he produce any and all ethically redacted public records of allegations and investigations of public corruption in the leadership of the APS, in particular of the investigations of corruption in the leadership of their police force.

The records are immediately available as most are currently in evidence in my lawsuit against them.  In particular if the request is made for electronic records, there is no reason why they couldn't have them right away.  It is his policy to produce records, if he in deed does produce them, "within the 15 days allowed by the law".  That's not the way the law reads, but ...

They could ask to see the public record of all of the IPRA requests for those records, and their responses.  They could ask for the records of communications by and among the leadership of the APS about how they were going to handle the scandal, (and the subsequent cover up).

The only reason the news directors or whomever in the establishment's media won't ask for a candid, forthright and honest accounting of the corruption, its investigations and its consequences, is because they are afraid of the consequences of so doing, or they are corrupt; unwilling to tell the truth, complicit in hiding the truth from interest holders.

If there is another good and ethical reason that the media won't make the request and then report upon the response, other than journalistic cowardice or corruption, someone would be doing them and me a great big favor by suggesting what that might be,

go for it _____________________________________ .


I have reason to believe that at least KRQE asked for the findings at the time of an independent investigation; the one that named the names.  And then they abandoned the request.  I suspect that their lawyer Marty Esquivel counseled them to (I will bow as always to controverting proof).

It would be interesting to know which other media outlets even bothered to ask for the findings.   And if they did, why did they stop asking?




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