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Post by tanouryjr on Aug 20, 2008 22:05:50 GMT -5
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Post by dgriffin on Aug 20, 2008 22:11:23 GMT -5
If they did indeed appropriate the items to personal use, as the article implies but does not specifically state, then they should each do a year in the county jail.
What is wrong with your D.A.?
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Post by tanouryjr on Aug 20, 2008 22:21:38 GMT -5
I guess it's all about who you know around here. I'm not sure if it was totally the D.A.'s fault, the Judge's fault, or just a sign of the system we live in. I'm certainly not a huge "lock 'em up and throw away the key" kind of guy, but it's sad when petty criminals fill our jails to the brim and crimes against the public/taxpayers - especially with such a large amount of money - get a slap on the wrist.
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Post by dgriffin on Aug 21, 2008 8:43:42 GMT -5
I was the Technology Director for a local school district and I will tell you I was very careful with the school's assets. Sure, I brought home some software and installed it on my own PC, but that didn't diminish the value to the school. And I had a school-owned laptop and cell phone that I was careful to use only for school business. I never took any service or piece of equipment without letting another administrator, usually my boss, know about it so that I could both show I had been forthright and also as a self-check against any larcenous thoughts I might have in the future. I chose vendors who might have cost the district a little more money, but with whom I knew I could work and who I knew would do the work correctly and on time.
I did these things because I hurt when I paid my school tax bills and I know the taxpayers in the district where I worked felt the same. I had no wish to dip deeper into their pockets, certainly not for my own aggrandizement. My fellow administrators were mostly honest and hardworking guys and girls who felt the same way, with the exception of a few duds who were dishonest with their time.
So, if these bastards really stole goods from the school district, I have no sympathy for them. They should do the time. And I would be very vocal with the D.A. about his dereliction of duty to preserve the property of the county's taxpayers.
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Post by Clipper on Aug 21, 2008 9:08:13 GMT -5
Politics and personal influence amazes me. The average Joe would be on his way to jail as we speak. I knew a guy at the base that was fired for taking home wrenches that were meant to be salvaged and for stealing a toolbox. He lost his pension and was disgraced after 18 years of service as a civilian at the base.
Misappropriating the hot water heaters should be enough to bring severe prosecution and punishment. We also had a man at the base, that was forced into retirement, but not prosecuted. He stole some patio furniture, and a solid oak door that were destined for the salvage auction. He actually took some others with him, because as a boss, he had his employees deliver the stuff to his home with a government truck. Now that took balls.
Such inequality in prosecution amazes me. One man is fired and loses his retirement for a couple of hundred bucks, and another is in an influential position and gets a slap on the hand and is forced to retire with his full retirement.
Put these school district employees in jail, or else prosecute the morons that are protecting them from prosecution and proper punishment. These larcenous bastards had nothing in mind but to let the taxpayers pay for goods which they could make a personal profit from. Jail is the answer.
Public employees are charged with honesty and with safeguarding public property. I used to take home pens in my pocket almost daily, but about once a week, I would put them all in a bundle with a rubber band around them and return them to the office supply cabinet. When it says government property, that means it is not mine, period. 20 ten cent pens is 2 bucks, if everyone takes an keeps 2 bucks worth of pens and office supplies, the cost at the end of a year is a significant figure.
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Post by frankcor on Aug 25, 2008 13:31:25 GMT -5
I'm baffled at the special treatment these two have been receiving. To the district's credit, they have been aggressively pursing this matter ever since materials were discovered missing at Copper Free Academy. And yet, the police and D.A. have dragged their feet to bring any accountability to the perps. One even had the hutzpah to sue the district for slander.
Many folks in the community have been critical of the district for dragging these good people's names through the mud! I guess if you hate a school superintendent bad enough, you'll even side with a criminal to make the super look bad.
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Post by smiley on Aug 26, 2008 6:25:55 GMT -5
I can't believe they only got probation. I think it is because of the who they know. Someone pulled some strings. I know if it was me I would be in the clinker.
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Post by snickers on Sept 5, 2008 21:18:00 GMT -5
Frigging greedy bastards.
But, they did finally cast the final vote to tear down that white elephant. After all, it would be embarrassing to have to replace everything these thugs had gutted and stolen from the building, wouldn't it?
God, I hate the Rome School System! Corruption is too mild a term.
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Post by rickolney on Sept 6, 2008 0:12:10 GMT -5
Spot on, Snickers!
Jail? Now how would THAT look...
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Post by snickers on Sept 14, 2008 21:24:08 GMT -5
Now the local paper says they're looking for the original cornerstone for the old RFA building. Might I suggest they search the basements and closets of current/former employees, superintendents, and staff? They carted off everything else that wasn't nailed down.
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