EMAILS BETWEEN EXCELENCIA CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDER RUBEN ALONZO AND VARIOUS LAWYERS AT PRIVATIZING LAW FIRM REVEAL STRATEGIES OF OBSTRUCTION AND DELAY –
EMAILS BETWEEN EXCELENCIA CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDER RUBEN ALONZO AND VARIOUS LAWYERS AT POWERHOUSE PRIVATIZING LAW FIRM YOUNG MINNEY CORR – DISCUSSING HOW TO RESPOND TO MY REQUEST FOR PUBLIC RECORDS – REVEAL STRATEGIES OF OBSTRUCTION AND DELAY – AND HINT AT A COORDINATED CAMPAIGN OF INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING AND INVESTIGATION OF ME – INCLUDING IDIOTIC INTERPRETATIONS OF MY MOTIVES AND MY PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT – PRETTY CREEPY STUFF ON WHICH TO BE SPENDING PUBLIC MONEY MEANT FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN – BUT NOT ESPECIALLY SURPRISING
In October 2018 I sent a California Public Records Act request for a bunch of emails to Ruben Alonzo, self-proclaimed founder of Excelencia Charter Academy, a creepy co-locating conspiracy currently occupying the Boyle Heights campus of Sunrise Elementary School. And about six weeks later, at the end of November, Alonzo handed over a suprisingly complete set of responsive records. And what important material it turned out to be.
From it we learned about a demand letter that the United Teachers of Los Angeles sent to Excelencia in June 2018 alleging violations of the Brown Act. And about how insidious privateer brigade the California Charter School Association provides free lawyers to charters to help them co-locate on the campuses of actual public schools. And about how charter school operators use all kinds of shenanaganistic financial maneuvers to skim money from the public funds they receive and funnel it into the coffers of their zillionaire sponsors. And about how Ruben Alonzo is a whiny crybaby stalker who hates democracy and freedom.
And not only was all that stuff revealed but Alonzo was kind enough to produce a set of emails between him and a couple of lawyers, Sarah Kollman and Kimberly Rodriguez, from metaphorically mobbed-up charter school law conspiracy Young Minney & Corr advising him on how to respond to my request and giving him apparently illegal suggestions for how to delay my access to the records. I’m exceedingly familiar with the end result of the anti-CPRA machinations of public agencies, but it’s rare, and very interesting, not to mention useful in deciding how to respond and proceed against them, to get a glimpse of the little folks behind the curtain who create the responses sent out over the signatures of their feckless clients.
The emails also include a series of weirdly puerile and self-serving CONTINUE READING: Michael Kohlhaas dot org