Friday, January 12, 2007

Memo from John Huerta

MEMORANDUM


To: Ms Lee De Cesare

From: John Huerta, Executive Director of Marketing and Public Relations

Re: Request for Public Records

Date: January 11, 2007 I made this request a month ago. I wonder if my referring it to the BOT catalyzed this tardy response.


In response to your email of January 8, 2007, I sent the original request to Dr. Stephenson in the middle of December. Are you deliberately mixing up the dates, or are you just mixed up? below please find reference to the information requested of Hillsborough Community College. Please note that a paraphrase of the request from the email is in bold comma and the response to the request is directly below.


“A copy of all emails incoming and outgoing on the subject of my e-mail’s reception at Gordon Keller or from any of the branches of the college”


Copies of your emails and many responses went to the entire College community. Your request will result in thousands of copies of emails at a cost of $.10 per page. Please advise if you want copies of all these documents as stated or specify the documents you request. In addition, given the staff time involved, you will be charged an hourly service fee for the staff time required for the Office of Information Technology to produce this large volume of email.


Don’t be facetious, Mr. Huerta. The college made the mistake of leaving the addresses on the Web. So get serious about charging me for a bazillion copies to punish me for asking for public information about the administration’s shutting down my email. Any reasonable person would infer my request means only one copy of such emails. If you don’t fall into the reasonable category, pray pass the request to someone who does be there such a person at GK. To repeat: I want the email(s) that ordered the shutdown of my emails: 1. the email(s) ordering the shutdown; 2. any emails responding to or commenting on the order to shut down my email. I want any administrative emails in the chain of command regarding the shutdown of my email. I want to see the email on my shut down of email to and from the Board of Trustees. I want to know the person(s) responsible for ordering and carrying out the shutdown of my email to the college. I want one copy of each relevant document, email or paper.


I want a copy of the Board policy authorizing such shutdowns. I want the law the Board uses to justify it. Don’t refer me to the statutes; send me the copy of the law that the administration has on hand to justify shutting down a person’s email.


“The Board’s policy statement on any questions of free speech and academic freedom”

The College’s Administrative Rules, which include Academic Freedom, are available on line on the College web site at http://www.hccfl.edu/dao/admrules/index.html.


Google response:
Your search - http://www.hccfl.edu/dao/adm rules/index.html. - did not match any documents.


The HCC Web site is not user friendly. How would one know how to hyperlink to the administrative rules from the Home page? Please send me this information or the correct URL to it. Google says the one you sent is wrong.


“The Florida statutes that deal with citizen input to a tax-supported college.”

The Florida Statutes are available on the State of Florida web site at www.myflorida.com.


Very helpful. I can see why you are in public relations.


MORE…

“Any opinion that the college obtains from the Attorney General of the state on this issue as it applies to public institution Hillsborough Community College


Let me see if I can infer what you mean with this laconic Joe-Friday taciturnity below: You have never asked for an opinion because no citizen has ever challenged your practice before. Let me change that request to one in which the Board of Trustees asks the Attorney General if a college can shut down a citizen’s email to the college as the administration has done in my case and in which sequel the administration now thinks to put a public-relations whiz to the task of thwarting the email-shut-down-victim’s getting solid data on it.


Dream on, sir. I mean to get answers to my questions on the shutdown emails.


No documentation.


“The name of the person who is the head of the Technology Department”


The Vice President for Information Technology is Dr. Bruce Judd. If Dr. Judd is one of the culprits in my email shutdown, he should step forth and admit his culpability right now.


“I would like to review the folder of the profiles of the current HCC Board of Trustee Members”


HCC Board Files are available for inspection in the President’s Office. I will review these in the fullness of time; right now I want the information about my email shutdown.


“A copy of the email addresses of all Board members”


The email address for the Board of Trustees is available on the HCC Web site at http://www.hccfl.edu/dao/board/ This datum is not discoverable by a person of my intelligence level. I found it out by calling the president’s office and getting it from the secretary. If you want to improve public relations, make the Web page user friendly.


All data on the outsourcing of the college book stores.”

Information is available on the review of bookstore operations at the College’s Purchasing web site http://www.hccfl.edu./purchasing/purchasing.asp?template=visitor.


“The name of the attorney who attended the meeting at GK with the bookstore employees and his complete notes”


The College has had no meeting that included our attorney with the bookstore employees.


This excerpt comes from an employee who said she attended the meeting with several others from the Bookstores. Is she hallucinating? And will you start a retaliation campaign for these people as seems to be administration protocol of the administration according to Ms. Larsen’s apocryphal comments at an open committee meeting. I wish you would start a retaliation campaign against me. I think it would be highly entertaining.

Excerpt: There cronies have been there so long that they have started believing what they say. Leeann and I and Faye Doyle went to a meeting with are union for the staff in front of Sue Flaig and Donna Miller and they had there lawyer who knows they are breaking the law but at 400 dollars and hour ( I believe that's what they get what can we expect.


Employment files review


Employment files can be viewed at the Hillsborough Community College, District Administrative Offices, Human Resources Department, 39 Columbia Dr., Tampa, FL on the 2nd floor. To make such arrangements, please call Ms Sue Flaig at (813) 253-7132.


“Data referring to the rumored use of an office computer by a GK administrator 8 to 10 years ago”

No record.


How odd and convenient. I could swear that my memory tells me that the rumor involved an administrator that Dr. Stephenson brought in with her, and that administrator was you. I believe your name is the one I remember the rumors swirling around. Is my memory mistaken? If so, answer this question to put the question to rest: Did your ever surf the Web on your administration office computer for pornography and suffer no consequences from Dr. Stephenson, Mr. Huerta, or was this one of those HCC rumors with no basis in fact? Yes or no will do nicely.



From: Huerta, John [mailto:jhuerta@hccfl.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 4:04 PM
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
Cc: Flaig, Sue; Koehler, Martha Kaye
Subject: Request for Public Records

Attached please find a memorandum responding to your request for public records.

John Huerta

Executive Director for Marketing and Public Relations

Hillsborough Community College

39 Columbia Dr.

Tampa, FL 33606

(813) 253-7158 Office

(813) 416-4407 Cell

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