Criminal Charges Filed Against School Board For Its Closed Meetings
In an action that may be unprecedented in New Mexico, two current and three former school board members in Las Cruces have been charged with four criminal counts each of violating the state Open Meetings Act.
State Attorney General Patricia Madrid filed criminal complaints Jan. 31 against board President Mary F. Tucker, board member Jeanette H. Dickerson, and former board members Ruben B. Alvarado, Clarence H. Fielder, and William Soules for approving $390,000 in employment incentives for then-Superintendent Jesse L. Gonzales in private meetings.
The board members, according to court documents, did not give public notice or publicly record the approval of a number of contracts for Mr. Gonzales, who recently became the superintendent of the Compton Unified School District in California. Mr. Gonzales has not...
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