Greg,
Your staff have once again decided to play pat-a-cake. Rather than address you privately, as that clearly isn’t working, this needs to be public.
All of the records requested from Louisville Metro Animal Services by No Kill Louisville are available in electronic form.
Every report can be exported to PDF format in Chameleon. If Gilles Meloche, Wayne Zelinsky (yes – the two worst directors in history) and everyone else could provide these same records to me without any hassle, there’s absolutely no reason current LMAS leadership cannot. The claim that it’s best to wait for Jessica to personally determine which records she wants in-person is a cop-out and slick maneuver/stall tactic to prevent all necessary documentation from being thoroughly examined.
I know you want to do your job well but this is taking weeks too long. There is no unnecessary burden, as this is – at most – a ten minute effort on the part of any LMAS employee to pull reports containing all data requested.
Please let me and the rest of the press know what you plan to do so we can determine whether or not I need to ask the Office of the Attorney General to intervene and/or take legal action myself.
Several government officials outside Louisville are closely watching this mess and I’m certain they don’t appreciate further alarming delays.
You need to take immediate action yourself. Release all the records today. Or do we need to call in Mrs. Brown – your real boss – to get the job done?
Jake
13 responses so far ↓
1 No Kill Supporter // Dec 1, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Stall tactics….no surprise. It also wouldn’t surprise me if they’re trying to change data before releasing it.
2 jake // Dec 1, 2011 at 12:40 pm
It’d be tough to change data already in the system and I don’t suspect that.
But it IS easy to hide data and to make it overwhelming to digest and inspect.
3 petsgalore5 // Dec 1, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Come on, you know Greg is busy planning his big sendoff for the police chief (that he should have ousted the day after he took office)! He doesn’t have time to bother with enforcing the law and giving you the records you requested. Oh wait, this will require printer ink and paper won’t it? They’ll have to order that then submit the bill to finance for approval and to be paid before it’s delivered. That might buy them some more time. How come a lowly private animal sanctuary in Eastern Kentucky can make an open reqcords request anywhere in the state and get the information post haste but you can’t ask for the reports to be printed and faxed or emailed to you and they walk all over their tongue trying to make excuses? Why wait, just call the AG and be done with it. Maybe a boot in their a** will get their attention and make them power up that printer. Even if that walk to the other side of the room is sooooo difficult for them.
4 jake // Dec 1, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Requires no paper…. but your point is a valid one. They have to play pat-a-cake to do anything, apparently.
5 Animal Lover // Dec 1, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Margaret Brosko used to play these games with open records requests when she was working for the Metro Parks Dept. in the same capacity. She has moved on to a position that pays a lot more (same job/different department), but…some things never change.
6 jake // Dec 1, 2011 at 4:39 pm
It’s not Brosko, it’s Dee Allen in Management & Budget.
And Donald Robinson, the former Walmart employee who is Scally’s #2, is apparently handling all records requests at LMAS/is the person Allen says is handling matters. So you know that’ll turn out well – ha.
7 Animal Lover // Dec 1, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Well, I won’t doubt you on that. Maybe Margaret taught them that trick, though. That is exactly what she did at Metro Parks. You made the records request and she would make you come in and comb through tons of reports to find those you needed. While watching you do it.
8 Chris // Dec 1, 2011 at 7:37 pm
The software used by LMAS is Chameleon/CMS (Case Management System), which is designed to track and manage all the data at any animal shelter facility. Chameleon is able to track and report on kennel intake and outcome, animal records and health records, animal licensing, medical clinic scheduling, facility finances, phone calls and animal-control dispatch, staff and volunteer records, and donor and contribution records. Chameleon has an array of report-generation capabilities that include ad hoc queries as well as charting and graphing. If LMAS is using this software as it is intended to be used, then they have the capability to swiftly produce comprehensive and easy-to-understand records.
9 jake // Dec 1, 2011 at 7:39 pm
They use it as it is intended to be used. Staff give me materials all the time. So did Meloche and Zelinsky.
10 Turner // Dec 2, 2011 at 12:36 pm
This comment is not directly related to the open records request issue but only to the functions of Chameleon that are currently in use at LMAS. Chameleon software does have multiple functions, many of which are listed by another reader. Entities that select Chameleon for kennel management can determine which part(s) of the array of offerings from Chameleon they wish to purchase. LMAS did not purchase and does not utilize all aspects and potential functions of Chameleon. I am pretty confident that donor records and volunteers, for instance, are options not in use at LMAS.
11 jake // Dec 2, 2011 at 12:50 pm
LMAS uses every function they’d need to produce 99% of data requested.
12 Tom Korbee // Dec 2, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Jake, there is a difference between vicious pointless narcisism and responsible thoughtful commentary. Look it up.
13 jake // Dec 2, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Vicious?
HAHAHA. Wow.
Forgive me for spending THREE YEARS digging out corruption at LMAS. I’ll own that shit because no one else wants to risk it.
Forgive me for daring to talk about what’s actually going on in local government. I guess I’m supposed to just sit down and shut up because Greg Fischer is such a nice guy or whatever bullshit I’m supposed to believe.
Interesting that the husband of Dee Allen would chime in because I dare criticize the shitty job I think she’s doing while my tax dollars pay her salary.
If there was no stalling and Metro Government wasn’t working 24/7 to white wash this mess? There’d be no issue.
Pro-tip: If you don’t like me criticizing the job your wife is doing on behalf of Greg Fischer and the LMAS folks? Maybe she should find other work. Because I get her emailed responses to folks and whether it’s her doing it or her bosses doing it – there is clear obfuscation.
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