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| Mario Rios/EISD email Aug. 9, 2006 |
| THE TRANSCRIPT: highlights--and low By Peyton Wolcott - August 21, 2006 - 10:00 pm |
| THE TRANSCRIPT R.G. Griffing - Editor/San Antonio Lightning with Mario Rios - Dir. of Comm./Edgewood ISD Tuesday - August 15, 2006 |
| WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING INCONSISTENCIES: 1. EISD's PR guy Mario Rios says they will mail me a copy of the police report; there is no reference to its having been allegedly emailed the day before as they later claimed. And of Aug. 21, there is no USPS mailed copy. 2. Mario below claims that my request "will be responded in the order it was received." But it wasn't; RG Griffing of the San Antonio Lightning asked later--and got sooner. From: mrios@eisd.net To: peyton@peytonwolcott.com Subject: Information from Mario Rios at Edgewood ISD Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:21 I wanted to inform you that we will provide you with the police report. I understand it is a brief report so we will be able to provide you that at no cost. We will mail it to you before the end of the week. Do I have your correct mailing address? . . . . As far as your media requests for information on EISD, everything that concerns Open Records information was forwarded to our Open Records/HR Administrator Irma Paine last Wednesday, Aug. 2. We are following protocol and the process is taking place. Your open records request will be responded in the order it was received. You will have a response within the 10 day time frame allowed by Open Records. Ms. Paine and I will work together to get you all the information you need. FYI, Ms. Paine's email address is ipaine@eisd.net. I appreciate everything you do for students and educators in the Texas public school system. Keep up the good work. Respectfully, Mario Rios |
| Last night as I was typing the transcript (at far right) of San Antonio Lightning editor RG Griffing's interview with Edgewood ISD PR guy Mario Rios, I wanted to like Mario. |
| RG: Now this woman said she was held for 45 minutes. I don't see any time frame on your police report. MR: You know--I, again--the police report, that's--what's there is there. You know, that's what the investigating police officer documented. |
| RG: Right. But I'd asked you earlier today--actually, yesterday--why the officer didn't sign the report when he made it. Can you explain that? |
| MR: Yes, sir. You asked me yesterday. I told you I'd research it, and I have. And again the information is as follows. He was not available to sign the report. He would normally sign the report if he would have had just due time to do it. But he didn't, because the request was made that you needed it right away. So we had a supervisor sign off on the report. RG: Wait a minute. On August 3 the incident occurred, according to the police report. Now, he wrote up the police report. What do you mean he wasn't available to sign his own police report? He was writing it. He was there. MR: He would have signed off on the police report in normal circumstances. But since your circumstances, the day after, you wanted the report, we started having, we started going, checking into this, and we saw that you needed it, he wasn't available. We got it to you with his supervisor's signature. RG: So if he didn't sign it the day that he made it, how do I know you didn't just make all this up after I called? |
| MR: I can't answer that question, Mr. Griffing. I'm not making things up. I'm, uh, I'm, you know, I'm doing my job. RG: I'm trying to get you to explain why he didn't sign the report when he wrote it. |
| MR: Well, you know, I, you know. The thing is, that he wasn't available. And that's a fact. RG: He wasn't available at the time that he wrote it? MR: If he would have been available he would have signed the report. RG: Well, then, who actually wrote the report? MR: The officers, there were three officers at the scene, right? RG: Who actually wrote the report? MR: Sirs, one of those officers would have wrote [sic] it. And according to what we're seeing on documentation, Officers [sic] Talamantez did. RG: But he didn't sign it. |
| Mario Rios/EISD email Aug. 15, 2006 |
| WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING INCONSISTENCIES: 1. This email below on the 15th is the first one I received from Edgewood. 2. This email below contains the first information I received from Edgewood re its logo. Subject: Mario Rios Email now re-activated & RE-sending Wolcott information from intial [sic] send date of Wed. Aug. 9 & Thurdy, [sic] Aug 10 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:26 From: mrios@eisd.net Hello Peyton . . . . HR Administrator Irma Paine emailed you the police report on Tuesday, Aug. 8. I emailed you the district logo information on Thursday, Aug. 10 (morning). After hearing your phone message about not getting police report on Thursday, Aug. 10 (afternoon), I emailed you police report myself. All that said, on Thursday, Aug. 10 (in the late evening), the entire Edgewood ISD email system was shut down. We converted to a new district email system between Aug. 11 and Aug. 14. On Tuesday, Aug. 15 at 11 AM, my email was officially re-activated. Below is the response to the question about logo information you asked for earlier this month. I am re-sending this information from Aug. 10 email I sent you. "I have some information that you requested via open records to Irma Paine. It was the question you asked about the Edgewood ISD logo cost and year it was created. There is no documentation for this request so it does not fall under TPIA guidelines. I can answer the question via this email. The logo was created in 1986. Due to the lengthy time span, we have no record of the cost or designer who created it." Attached is the police report. Again it was sent Aug. 8 by Irma Paine, re-sent Aug. 10 by myself and re-sent again Aug. 15 by myself. Thank you for your support. Mario Rios |
| So last night as I was typing the transcript two images kept coming to mind. The first was Dan Hedaya (above left) on the phone in Joe Versus the Volcano: |
| MR: He didn't sign it because he wasn't available. RG: He was writing it. He finished writing it, and then you sign it. He was available--he wrote it. |
| Yeah, Harry, but can he do the job? I know he can get the job, but can he do the job? I'm not arguing that with you. I'm not arguing that with you. I'm not arguing that with you. |
| MR: Let's go back to what I, we, talked about earlier. This is a word process [sic] generated report. And I'm being a witness at the scene, I was there for the tail end of it. I did not see him, you know, doing a report. I didn't see a word processor out at the scene, anything like that. So I'm, in my best judgment, he went back to the office, which I believe that's what they normally do, and they fill the reports out in that situation. RG: Right. And he filled out the report, correct? MR: Yes, sir. |
| If you've not seen this movie, I recommend it to you. It's a family favorite. The phone scene with Hedaya is a classic; he's the boss, in a large windowless office lit by noisy overhead fluorescents sounding much like blue bug lights (Buzz! Buzz! Zap! Zap!). The second image was Abbott & Costello's brilliant "Who's on First" baseball routine: |
| RG: But he didn't sign it. He was there when he wrote it. Why didn't he sign it at the time that he wrote it? MR: Not available to sign the report. |
| Abbott: Well, let's see, we have on the bags, Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third... Costello: That's what I want to find out. Abbott: I say Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third. Costello: Are you the manager? Abbott: Yes. Costello: You gonna be the coach too? Abbott: Yes. Costello: And you don't know the fellows' names? Abbott: Well I should. Costello: Well then who's on first? Abbott: Yes. Costello: I mean the fellow's name. |
| RG: How can you not be available when you're writing the report yourself? MR: There was more than one officer at the scene, sir. So there's other people that have to be, there must have been a collaboration, and at the same time, the quickness and the fastness of getting your report generated, he was not available when you wanted it, to sign it, so the supervisor signed it. |
| RG: That was the day after. The supervisor didn't sign it until the 9th. You know, it's not making a lot of sense, Mario. |
| MR: I'm just telling you what I know and what I've researched. I'm just telling you that you wanted a report. You initially started it on the 4th. On the 9th it was, it was, it was processed. It was signed by a supervisor, and we got it to you. RG: So are police reports normally unsigned? |
| MR: Police reports are always signed. RG: Well, no, they're not. I've got one that wasn't. MR: Well, that's because you wanted it quick, and we wanted to accommodate you. We were trying to help you. |
| Note that Edgewood PR is attempting to "accommodate" and "help" the SA Lightning, which got a copy of the police report before the reportee. |
| My friend and yours, Edgewood ISD's PR guy, Mario Rios, on the day of the police detainment, Aug. 3, 2006. |
| When you read the transcript at right, see if one or both of these two images, Dan Hedaya, Abbott & Costello, don't come to mind. And can you can come up with a reasonable explanation for how it can be that Sam Talamantoz, an armed police officer, can be at the scene of a detainment on Aug. 3, then prepare a report without signing--it even though the report isn't delivered at the earliest on Aug. 14--another 11 days after the detainment? And why Edgewood is saying that it's unsigned because of the rush to produce it? Only in the world of school districts could 11 days be considered "quick." If and when you do figure this one out, please email me: peyton@peytonwolcott.com |
| Here's my husband's comment after reading the transcript at right: "As a former policeman, nothing's official until you sign it--it's the bonafide signature on a police report that makes it official. By signing it, the officer verifies that whatever he's written is correct, and that it actually happened." |
| RG: I didn't get it quick, and I don't understand that the man who wrote the police report, how was he not available to sign it if he wrote it? MR: He was not available to sign it when the report was generated for you, sir. If we, if it would have been normal circumstances, whenever, however, long it takes, all concerned parties would have signed it at that time. But since you wanted it very quickly, it was not signed by him because he was not available. |
| And note that Edgewood is saying that the report's not signed because the SA Lightning wanted it quickly. But 11 days elapsed between the incident and the date SAL received the police report; is Edgewood saying Officer Talamantoz was MIA for 11 days? |
| RG: He didn't know that I was going to request it on the 3rd. Is he psychic? MR: Now you're asking me questions that I can't answer because this is getting a little crazy here. I'd just like to keep it professional. So I'm going to go with this now. And, uh, so you'll know, I'd like to record you now, so you can hear me say this, please. [Click] RG. [On speakerphone' |
| RG: Yes, hello. MR: RG, now I have my recorder on. Just so you know, I want to make sure that we're clear. Uh, I appreciate what you do, you're a good reporter. But I just want you to know some of the questions you asked me are a little out there and I want to keep this all professional, so if you have any other questions, I want you to put them in writing, and we'll give you your response in the, in the order that it was received. RG: Define "out there" -- that I'm questioning why a report wasn't signed when it was written? |
| Edgewood ISD police officer on duty in front of HQ, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006. |
| MR: Yes, I'd like to keep this all professional, so from this day forward. I'm not used to the, the abrupt questions, and the, and the, and the--I don't know how else to put it. I'd like to keep this professional, so if you have any other requests, just do it in writing, and I guarantee you we will get you a response quickly, because we appreciate all the coverage that you give us. |
| RG: Okay, and what about the question I asked, about the superintendent and where he lives? MR: The superintendent question, like I told you earlier in the day, uh, put that in writing from now on, and, uh, we will take care of you. RG: You already told me you will give me the answer to that today. You can email me the answer. |
| ONLY HERE, FOLKS -- EXCLUSIVE! Seldom seen up close, this image was smuggled out by a secret informant who claims it is the badge worn by Edgewood ISD police officers. Roughly translated from the Latin, the department's motto appears to proclaim, "We serve as one brave proud force, protecting our superintendent from grandmothers with cameras." |
| MR: This has changed. You have changed the playing surface for me, sir. RG: Why, because I asked why a police report wasn't signed? |
| MR: No, I have answered that question, and the superintendent one, I'm going to answer that, too. But let's do everything from now on in writing when we correspond. RG: No, I don't work that way. I will just carry you as "no comment." MR: I would, I would be more than happy to answer your questions. I just need a quick email to "mrios@eisd.net" and I will take care of all your needs, RG. RG: No. No, you're not taking care of all my needs, not even in person; why would putting it in writing help? You just don't want to be questioned about the absurd answers you're giving. |
| MR: I'm giving you straightforward factual answers, sir. RG: How is it possible that a man writes a report but doesn't sign it because he's not available? How is that possible? |
| MR: He was not available so his supervisor signed off on the report. RG: If he wasn't available, how did he write the report? Did you guys make this up afterwards? Is he afraid to sign it? MR: I've answered your questions, sir. RG: Do this, then. It's not a question. I want a copy of the police report signed by the officer that was there. |
| MR: I will investigate that for you and I'll research it. But you can put that in writing for us, please. RG: No. [End of tape] |
| Article in San Antonio Lightning here: www.sanantoniolightning.com/eisd2.html Look for taped interview about 1/3 down |
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TO:
KATHY COX-GEORGIA
SUP'T OF SCHOOLS &
CEO-GEORGIA DOE
CC:
DANA TOFIG-
GEORGIA DOE
PUBLIC INFO. OFCR.
DATE: JAN. 22, 2006
Can you please send me
the annual dollar
amount for each school
year (the five annual fiscal
cycles 2000-2005) that the
Georgia Public Schools
DOE has spent with
vendor Computer
Consulting Services
Corp., described as a
consultant to Georgia's
DOE.
KATHY COX-GEORGIA
SUP'T OF SCHOOLS &
CEO-GEORGIA DOE
CC:
DANA TOFIG-
GEORGIA DOE
PUBLIC INFO. OFCR.
DATE: JAN. 22, 2006
Can you please send me
the annual dollar
amount for each school
year (the five annual fiscal
cycles 2000-2005) that the
Georgia Public Schools
DOE has spent with
vendor Computer
Consulting Services
Corp., described as a
consultant to Georgia's
DOE.
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DATE FIRST SENT:
FEB. 14, 2006
RE-SENT 03/26/06
Dear Strongsville
Superintendent
James Gray:
I'm hoping you can
clear something up for
me for my book and
website regarding your
standards for
administrative
practices in
Strongsville as there
have been not one but
two situations this past
year warranting
scrutiny....
Regarding special ed
teacher Christine
Scarlett's offering a
date with herself as a
grades incentive
1. What rules/
guidelines do you now
have in place to
assure that nothing
like this happens
again? Would these
be administrative
changes or has your
board set specific
policies in place for
you to follow in future?
2. Rumors of an affair
between Scarlett and
Bradigan persisted for
several months. You
have stated that you
have no idea such an
affair was going on.
Do you feel the fact
that you are
commuting from your
home in Akron (if this
has changed, please
let me know) has
adversely impacted
your ability to monitor
what's going on with
your employees in the
Strongsville
community in an
important and
sensitive area such as
this? Has your board
since made a
condition of your
employment that you
move to Strongsville
and become an
integral part of their
community?
Regarding the sex
education booklet
placed last fall in
young children's
lockers
4. What guidelines
did you follow from
your established
board's policies for
such?
5. There appears to
be a growing number
of parents who want to
be consulted before
such materials are
given to their students.
As one mom put it,
"What's wrong with so
many people in the
educational fields that
they don't even think
twice about providing
children with
inappropriate
materials and not even
consider the parents
wishes....Their tactics
mirror those used in
Communist China and
Cuba where children
are considered not
children of parents, but
wards of the State."
While this is clearly the
statement of an upset
parent, it does raise an
interesting issue
regarding public
school administrators
in the U.S. Do you
consider the students
in your schools yours
to educate as you
deem best or the
offspring of parents to
be consulted before
disseminating such
materials?
Regarding trainings
and conferences
6. Of which
education-related
associations are you
and Strongsville City
Schools a member?
What are these
organizations'
guidelines for
disseminating such
materials?
7. In which
education-related
conferences have
your and your staff
participated this past
year? Where were
they and what were
the costs for each?
Have you attended any
other seminars,
workshops or the like
offering guidance in
this area, and what
were those costs?
It may well be that
there are perfectly
reasonable
explanations for your
approving the placing
sex-education
pamphlets in young
students' lockers
without notifying
parents first, and it may
also well be that there
is a perfectly
reasonable
explanation for your
allowing a teacher to
offer a date at the Dairy
Queen with herself to a
young student; if so, I
am eager to learn such
reason or reasons.
==================
She said the booklet,
which also provides
information on the need for
parental consent for
abortion and a Web
address for the
Lesbian/Gay Community
Service Center of Greater
Cleveland, is
inappropriate for
11-year-olds. I believe
some sex education needs
to be given, but when
subjects are discussed or
material is given to kids of
this nature, a notice
should be sent home to
the parent and they should
be allowed to opt out of
the program if they wish,
Fleming said. School
Superintendent James
Gray said he gave an OK
for the pocket-sized
directories, which were
provided to the district by
United Way Services in
conjunction with the
county health department
and county commissioners,
to be given to students at
the high school, middle
schools and to sixth
graders. Gray said he
received two calls from
parents who took
exception to the booklet's
content. I understand that
and probably, in
retrospect, I should have
considered sending a
letter along with it as far
as an explanation, he
said, adding, this is a
developing situation. I
don't know what we are
going to do at this point.
Colleen Grady, a city
resident and a member of
the state school board,
said she got calls from four
parents concerned about
their children getting the
directory. Grady, who is
also a former city school
board member, said she
has not personally seen
the publication, but they
(parents) read me sections
over the telephone. She
said the state board of
education may wish to
make a legislative
recommendation to the
Ohio general assembly,
and the board could also
consider discussion about
adoption of a model policy
for the distribution of such
materials. Gray said there
will be continued
discussion, in the district's
curriculum and pupil
services departments on
whether to curtail
distribution of materials
which are considered to
be sensitive, particularly
for the younger kids.
FEB. 14, 2006
RE-SENT 03/26/06
Dear Strongsville
Superintendent
James Gray:
I'm hoping you can
clear something up for
me for my book and
website regarding your
standards for
administrative
practices in
Strongsville as there
have been not one but
two situations this past
year warranting
scrutiny....
Regarding special ed
teacher Christine
Scarlett's offering a
date with herself as a
grades incentive
1. What rules/
guidelines do you now
have in place to
assure that nothing
like this happens
again? Would these
be administrative
changes or has your
board set specific
policies in place for
you to follow in future?
2. Rumors of an affair
between Scarlett and
Bradigan persisted for
several months. You
have stated that you
have no idea such an
affair was going on.
Do you feel the fact
that you are
commuting from your
home in Akron (if this
has changed, please
let me know) has
adversely impacted
your ability to monitor
what's going on with
your employees in the
Strongsville
community in an
important and
sensitive area such as
this? Has your board
since made a
condition of your
employment that you
move to Strongsville
and become an
integral part of their
community?
Regarding the sex
education booklet
placed last fall in
young children's
lockers
4. What guidelines
did you follow from
your established
board's policies for
such?
5. There appears to
be a growing number
of parents who want to
be consulted before
such materials are
given to their students.
As one mom put it,
"What's wrong with so
many people in the
educational fields that
they don't even think
twice about providing
children with
inappropriate
materials and not even
consider the parents
wishes....Their tactics
mirror those used in
Communist China and
Cuba where children
are considered not
children of parents, but
wards of the State."
While this is clearly the
statement of an upset
parent, it does raise an
interesting issue
regarding public
school administrators
in the U.S. Do you
consider the students
in your schools yours
to educate as you
deem best or the
offspring of parents to
be consulted before
disseminating such
materials?
Regarding trainings
and conferences
6. Of which
education-related
associations are you
and Strongsville City
Schools a member?
What are these
organizations'
guidelines for
disseminating such
materials?
7. In which
education-related
conferences have
your and your staff
participated this past
year? Where were
they and what were
the costs for each?
Have you attended any
other seminars,
workshops or the like
offering guidance in
this area, and what
were those costs?
It may well be that
there are perfectly
reasonable
explanations for your
approving the placing
sex-education
pamphlets in young
students' lockers
without notifying
parents first, and it may
also well be that there
is a perfectly
reasonable
explanation for your
allowing a teacher to
offer a date at the Dairy
Queen with herself to a
young student; if so, I
am eager to learn such
reason or reasons.
==================
She said the booklet,
which also provides
information on the need for
parental consent for
abortion and a Web
address for the
Lesbian/Gay Community
Service Center of Greater
Cleveland, is
inappropriate for
11-year-olds. I believe
some sex education needs
to be given, but when
subjects are discussed or
material is given to kids of
this nature, a notice
should be sent home to
the parent and they should
be allowed to opt out of
the program if they wish,
Fleming said. School
Superintendent James
Gray said he gave an OK
for the pocket-sized
directories, which were
provided to the district by
United Way Services in
conjunction with the
county health department
and county commissioners,
to be given to students at
the high school, middle
schools and to sixth
graders. Gray said he
received two calls from
parents who took
exception to the booklet's
content. I understand that
and probably, in
retrospect, I should have
considered sending a
letter along with it as far
as an explanation, he
said, adding, this is a
developing situation. I
don't know what we are
going to do at this point.
Colleen Grady, a city
resident and a member of
the state school board,
said she got calls from four
parents concerned about
their children getting the
directory. Grady, who is
also a former city school
board member, said she
has not personally seen
the publication, but they
(parents) read me sections
over the telephone. She
said the state board of
education may wish to
make a legislative
recommendation to the
Ohio general assembly,
and the board could also
consider discussion about
adoption of a model policy
for the distribution of such
materials. Gray said there
will be continued
discussion, in the district's
curriculum and pupil
services departments on
whether to curtail
distribution of materials
which are considered to
be sensitive, particularly
for the younger kids.
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| Hard to ignore: During the police detainment (Thursday, Aug. 3) I asked Mario himself for a copy of the police report, and followed up with a confirming fax the next day. During the detainment Mario told told me the district had ten business days to get it to me. I asked him to hurry. It didn't come and it didn't come and it didn't come. A promise--Edgewood style Mario later said by phone that I'd get the first copy of the police report, before anyone else, and that was "a promise." Unlike RG, I didn't take the precaution of taping my conversation with Mario; like Louis B. Mayer said, "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." Oops On Wednesday, Aug. 9, Mario's assistant Moses Tovar tells me, "You should feel secure that there were three police officers there to ensure your safety." Oops. On Tuesday, Aug. 15, Edgewood ISD finally emailed me a copy of my own police report. But Mario had sent a copy to RG at the San Antonio Lightning the day before, on Monday, Aug. 14. Oops. Also on Aug. 15, Edgewood claims to have emailed me a copy of my police report first on Aug. 8--except that it's not dated until Aug. 9. Oops. Also on Aug. 15, Edgewood's police report is prepared by Officer Sam G. Talamantoz-- who didn't sign it. In fact, the space where Sam should have signed it is completely blank. But the reviewer, Sergeant Carlos Solis, didn't sign it either. "Sgt. D. Newman" did. Oops. |
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