Excellent question. We want private personnel records for every HVAC technician at CSN! Records regarding elected officials are fair game. Personnel records for janitors are not.
I love how seriously the RJ took German’s privacy (which I support), but act like CSN is doing something underhanded. Telles’ meets/exceeds expectations annual review markings from 2015 are something the public has no interest in that would overcome the privacy interest of a former employee. CSN probably should have destroyed the records pursuant to a record retention policy.
None too articulately I note that it’s usually when defending rights of pos like Telles that we make inroads to protecting rights for us non murderers – u know what i mean.
This is incendiary baloney from Glenn Cook. Think how hard you fought Glenn to keep Jeff German’s matters private. You are a hypocrite. But to say CSN is siding with a murderer is an incredibly inappropriate use of words from someone who professionally traffics in words.
I like the RJ, even though the editorial staff is to my right. You’ll find few cities of our size that has as expansive coverage of local news. Compare it to the Salt Lake Tribune or Deseret News, a similarly sized market, and you’ll see that the RJ is far more robust.
But there are annoyances with the RJ too. Whenever Glenn Cook is quoted in a story where the RJ is a party (to us legal parlance), he comes off very sanctimonious. Sometimes the sanctimony is justified, like when he speaks about the outrageousness of a politicians killing a reporter. But on this issue he sounds like a braying jackass. What is it exactly about Telles’ CSN personnel file that is such a compelling public interest? I think we all know where the RJ will take this story if they get the documents. Unless Telles’ personnel file is squeaky clean – which it may very well be – any issues, no matter how minor or trivial will be shoehorned into the RJ’s narrative of, “How did so many people and institutions let this guy run amock for so long?” And that story will include, of course, a sanctimonious quote from Glenn Cook.
So the question is this, why does anything in that personnel file matter at all? Let’s say that 15 years ago, Telles made some bawdy jokes that constitute sexual harassment. Or that he was insubordinate. Without condoning those activities, I ask, so the fuck what?
Here is the other problem with the article. It switches back and forth between third-party reporting and first-person advocacy without quotes. So Arthur Kane writes as a third-party reporter but then also sprinkles in disputed the R/J’s positions as fact. It is sloppy journalism as well as sanctimonious pablum.
If you read the article and link to a previous article, the RJ’s requests for information related to accusations of CSN burrying payoffs regarding Telles and workplace misconduct by a high ranking UNLV official. They cite NV law and their position that these laws trump and administrative rules regarding privacy.
Not sure if the paywall is casuing so much confusion. Also it is part of an ongoing What Are They Hiding series.
Seems that all of the pearl clutching aside that maybe the RJ is on to something.
A nontrivial privacy interest is an exception to the NPRA that has been recognized by the NSC. It is weighed against the public’s interest. The RJ’s “what are they hiding” series has failed to acknowledge the nontrivial privacy interest, the attorney-client privilege, or any of the hundred-plus statutory exceptions set forth in NRS 239.010.
I mean, is there such a thing as a “high-ranking” HVAC specialist?
I’m in favor of letting the sunshine in, but personnel records for someone whose job was essentially making sure the a/c kept running?
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October 28, 2024 2:26 pm
The title is what I tell my girlfriend.
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October 28, 2024 3:26 pm
Most ridiculous thing happened today. Our client was served with an electronically filed Complaint in Henderson Justice Court. We went to e-file the Answer and discovered that Complaints can be e-filed but there no mechanism in the system for Defendants to e-file a responsive pleading. So Plaintiffs get to e-file but Defendants must counter file all pleadings. What kind of garbage system is this?
Why is Second so bad? Never practiced there before
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October 29, 2024 4:38 pm
I keep trying to call the LV Constable’s Office today. I keep getting the “We are closed” voice mail. What gives? I started getting that today about 3:50’ish. Do they have their Halloween party going on now?
Alex, re today’s title, “What is something OBC has never considered?”
Sorry if I’m late to the party, but why are there comments referencing Alex? Alex who?
Kudos to 10:05 for connecting those dots
It’s a Jeopardy! reference…
What is the RJ hiding? Besides any shattered reminisce of journalistic integrity.
Excellent question. We want private personnel records for every HVAC technician at CSN! Records regarding elected officials are fair game. Personnel records for janitors are not.
I love how seriously the RJ took German’s privacy (which I support), but act like CSN is doing something underhanded. Telles’ meets/exceeds expectations annual review markings from 2015 are something the public has no interest in that would overcome the privacy interest of a former employee. CSN probably should have destroyed the records pursuant to a record retention policy.
“Review-Journal Executive Editor Glenn Cook said the school is siding with a murderer instead of the public’s right to know”
Right or wrong on the public records issue, this is inflammatory nonsense. Yes, even convicted murders have some right to privacy.
None too articulately I note that it’s usually when defending rights of pos like Telles that we make inroads to protecting rights for us non murderers – u know what i mean.
This is incendiary baloney from Glenn Cook. Think how hard you fought Glenn to keep Jeff German’s matters private. You are a hypocrite. But to say CSN is siding with a murderer is an incredibly inappropriate use of words from someone who professionally traffics in words.
Well said.
I like the RJ, even though the editorial staff is to my right. You’ll find few cities of our size that has as expansive coverage of local news. Compare it to the Salt Lake Tribune or Deseret News, a similarly sized market, and you’ll see that the RJ is far more robust.
But there are annoyances with the RJ too. Whenever Glenn Cook is quoted in a story where the RJ is a party (to us legal parlance), he comes off very sanctimonious. Sometimes the sanctimony is justified, like when he speaks about the outrageousness of a politicians killing a reporter. But on this issue he sounds like a braying jackass. What is it exactly about Telles’ CSN personnel file that is such a compelling public interest? I think we all know where the RJ will take this story if they get the documents. Unless Telles’ personnel file is squeaky clean – which it may very well be – any issues, no matter how minor or trivial will be shoehorned into the RJ’s narrative of, “How did so many people and institutions let this guy run amock for so long?” And that story will include, of course, a sanctimonious quote from Glenn Cook.
So the question is this, why does anything in that personnel file matter at all? Let’s say that 15 years ago, Telles made some bawdy jokes that constitute sexual harassment. Or that he was insubordinate. Without condoning those activities, I ask, so the fuck what?
Here is the other problem with the article. It switches back and forth between third-party reporting and first-person advocacy without quotes. So Arthur Kane writes as a third-party reporter but then also sprinkles in disputed the R/J’s positions as fact. It is sloppy journalism as well as sanctimonious pablum.
If you read the article and link to a previous article, the RJ’s requests for information related to accusations of CSN burrying payoffs regarding Telles and workplace misconduct by a high ranking UNLV official. They cite NV law and their position that these laws trump and administrative rules regarding privacy.
Not sure if the paywall is casuing so much confusion. Also it is part of an ongoing What Are They Hiding series.
Seems that all of the pearl clutching aside that maybe the RJ is on to something.
A nontrivial privacy interest is an exception to the NPRA that has been recognized by the NSC. It is weighed against the public’s interest. The RJ’s “what are they hiding” series has failed to acknowledge the nontrivial privacy interest, the attorney-client privilege, or any of the hundred-plus statutory exceptions set forth in NRS 239.010.
I mean, is there such a thing as a “high-ranking” HVAC specialist?
I’m in favor of letting the sunshine in, but personnel records for someone whose job was essentially making sure the a/c kept running?
The title is what I tell my girlfriend.
Most ridiculous thing happened today. Our client was served with an electronically filed Complaint in Henderson Justice Court. We went to e-file the Answer and discovered that Complaints can be e-filed but there no mechanism in the system for Defendants to e-file a responsive pleading. So Plaintiffs get to e-file but Defendants must counter file all pleadings. What kind of garbage system is this?
It’s a Hendertucky kind of garbage system, of course.
Welcome to Clark County Justice Courts. Still better than the Second Judicial District Court though.
Why is Second so bad? Never practiced there before
I keep trying to call the LV Constable’s Office today. I keep getting the “We are closed” voice mail. What gives? I started getting that today about 3:50’ish. Do they have their Halloween party going on now?