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OCSD’ Culture, FileGate & The Laguna Village Ten People
Posted by: CotoBlogzz | 12/24/2008 3:30 PM
Our efforts to get additional detail on FileGate
have yielded little in terms of figures we can
manipulate, but have yielded a lot about the ongoing
relationship between the Laguna Woods Village
residents, the local governing body, the property
management company and the Orange County Sheriff’s
department much discussed
culture.
In
a press release On December 2, 2008, Heather
Rasmussen, Village public relations specialist,
stated: “The contents of a file that
contained proprietary gate pass application
information were stolen from the Community Center. The
issue is under Sheriff’s investigation for theft of
private property and potential identity theft,”
alluding to case 08-232487,
documented December 02, 2008 as a burglary report
OCSD
Investigator Barth Massey had been in contact with
Security Manager Eugene Hart, prior to the filing of a
formal OCSD report - The file was discovered missing
sometime in November: United Director Michael W.
Curtis discovered some of the contents on the doorstep
of his housing unit, and handed them over to the
president of United Mutual Lloyd Foster who in turn
handed them to Village General Manager Milt Johns.
Subsequently, ten residents referred to as the Village-Ten People were selected to receive an “attorney-letter” in connection with the missing file. Apparently the link is an email meant as a thank you note and involving the ten lucky residents. The email sent November 9, 2008 reads in part:
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“Thursday,
Dave Pinston, Security - right hand to Gene |
None of the Village
Ten People we have approached has been willing to
speak on the record.
However,
a resident familiar with the matter tells us that
there is nothing new “…in fact the silence has
been amazing. Last we heard was that the file
had been located, found as it were. Implied is
that it had been misplaced. Unofficial
speculation is that PCM realized they could get into a
world of hurt for disclosing private information and
manufactured the crisis to cover the disclosure in
such a way that they could bully the “…Village
Ten People.
We
have sent numerous requests for comment to Wendy
Bucknum, government and public affairs manager for
Laguna Woods Village. She has not responded.
We
tried multiple times to contact Lt. Bill Griffin - has
not responded
We
have called OCSD’s spokersperson Jim Amormino
multiple times. He has kindly referred us to Lt.
Griffin. We were able to reach Sgt Von
Normheim, while the Lt. was off. She kindly
referred us to Investigator Barth Massey, who abruptly
cut us off stating that he was not allowed to talk to
the media. We then contacted the Sgt. who told
us the same thing. Back to Jim Amormino, back to
the Lt……you get the idea.
Conclusions:
a. The more the OCSD culture changes, the more
it remains the same: Transparently
intransparent.
b.
The Village Ten People are confident the attorney
letters they have received are innocuous and will
simply go away if ignored.
c.
Was the official burglary report a ruse and is the
OCSD involved in a cover up? No one will say!
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