As defined by the Local Government Records Act, a “local government record” means: ANY document, paper, letter, book, map, photograph, sound or video recording, microfilm, magnetic tape, electronic medium, or other information recording medium, regardless of physical form or characteristic and regardless of whether public access to it is open or restricted under the laws of the State, created or received by a local government or any of it’s officers or employees pursuant to law, including an ordinance, or in the transaction of public business”. Any document created or received by a City employee MUST be retained and disposed of according to the schedules adopted by the City and the retention period for a record applies to the record regardless of the medium in which it is maintained- i.e. paper or electronic version. E-mails are records and subject to record retention requirements! If a record is maintained electronically, the electronic data, as well as the hardware and software necessary to access the data, must be retained for the retention period assigned to the record, unless backup copies of the data are retained in paper or on microfilm for the retention period. If the City of Dallas adopted the following record retention schedule by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, then unless a record is “exempt from destruction request requirements”, records CAN NOT be destroyed without the consent of the records management committee. Destruction of local government records contrary to the provisions of the Local Government Records Act of 1989 and administrative rules adopted under its authority is a Class A misdemeanor and, under certain circumstances, a third degree felony. Anyone destroying local government records without legal authorization may also be subject to criminal penalties and fines under the Open Records Act.
So beware City of Duncanville…these are your own adopted records retention requirements and your citizens and hopefully the City of Dallas’s citizen’s will make sure their government is following it’s own similar procedure for records retention and hold them accountable as we intend to do here in Duncanville, county of Dallas!!
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I just think
June 12, 2009
Oh, my gosh. You guys are good. I’ve got chill bumps. I’m glad I’m on the right side of the law.
do it
June 12, 2009
Arrest the bast*rds. Give them a ticket. Something. They need all new employees, starting now, but then who knows how they’d act, giventhe opportunity. You know what? You can access their phone line at 972 780 5000. They used to have a job line on it, but was disbanded, and I think I know why now. I applied so many times, yet was never hired for jobs I was qualified for. Was I not bad enough? Was I not slick enough? Probably not. They never had any openings, either. Thing is, they stopped putting jobs on the jobline, and now I think they started to hire, and promote, from within, which adds to the influence peddling. Once they get their jobs, their buerocratic stronghold allows them to keep them for posterity, which would be fine if they did their jobs right. Most don’t. So, if you want a job that you’ll never be fired from, no matter how corrupt you are, come to Duncanville, “City of Opportunists.”
It only stands to reason, that if you have bad people in the community, most, if not all, of those bad eggs, are going to attain a job, somewhere, and where better than the govt/city, with all it’s benefits?
I tell you what, if I had a job with some authority, I would straighten out the town. Of course, the people who dogged their way to administrative positions, don’t want good people working there, cause it will destroy their status quo.
do it
June 12, 2009
bureaucratic* Sorry, forgot the spellcheck. I knew I misspelled it, though.
KB, quit stalking me, you pervert
June 14, 2009
I’m serious, so quit slowing my computer down.
Truth B. Told
June 17, 2009
YOU want to help erase corruption. I will tell you how. Right now if you have any information that will corraborate the allegagtion of harrassment, discrimination or retaliation, please call the Equal Employment Opportunity Center and ask for Ms. Marie Holland, assigned investigator for case #450-2009-02859 at phone number 214-253-2878 with any relevant information regarding the City of Duncanville’s corruption, harrassment, discrimination or retaliation policy or lack of policy.
If you feel like they have never adequately handled or dealt with the federal policy dealing with anything, if you feel like they can do whatever they want and get away with it, call this number and ask to speak with this investigator and lodge your complaint! So put up or shush up because a blog is just a blog. It’s just a bunch of folks complaining, bitching and whining and not DOING, DOING anything to change ANYTHING!! So, ‘do it says’:
“Arrest the bast*rds. Give them a ticket. Something. They need all new employees, starting now, but then who knows how they’d act, given the opportunity. You know what? You can access their phone line at 972-780-5000. They used to have a job line on it, but was disbanded, and I think I know why now. I applied so many times, yet was never hired for jobs I was qualified for. Was I not bad enough? Was I not slick enough? Probably not. They never had any openings, either. Thing is, they stopped putting jobs on the jobline, and now I think they started to hire, and promote, from within, which adds to the influence peddling. Once they get their jobs, their buerocratic stronghold allows them to keep them for posterity, which would be fine if they did their jobs right. Most don’t. So, if you want a job that you’ll never be fired from, no matter how corrupt you are, come to Duncanville, “City of Opportunists.”
It only stands to reason, that if you have bad people in the community, most, if not all, of those bad eggs, are going to attain a job, somewhere, and where better than the govt/city, with all it’s benefits?
I tell you what, if I had a job with some authority, I would straighten out the town. Of course, the people who dogged their way to administrative positions, don’t want good people working there, cause it will destroy their status quo.” end quote.
The only way to correct the situation is to DO something besides typing on your keyboard. File your complaint if you have one. Mr. Clint….did you know that because you complained to the person who was perpetrating the offense and you got FIRED because you had the decency to protest the aggrevied behavior, that you have a RIGHT TO FILE YOU OWN FEDERAL COMPLAINT!!! You know why?? Did they have a valid right to terminate your employment? Sure. Did they know long before they terminated you that they could have but waited until you complained about corrupt behavior to fire you? Yup. Is that called retaliation? Yup. Is that called a whistleblower? Yup. Is that illegal? Yup. The more people that come forward the more ability any of us have to correct the situation. Put me in charge………..hum…………I think I could run that department without corruption, without bias, and with a well educated, oft uncompensated mind because I care…I care about my country, my community, my children, and our future. Anything I was not knowledgable about, I would educate myself about, on my own time…………period. Mr. Joel Daugherty sucks his own pompous rearend if he thinks I will give up on this cause. If Mr. Earl Grody, yuk, thinks this will just go away he should move back to the ‘great State of Ohio’ because this will not go away. I will die trying until I recieve justice not only for me, but for Duncanville, for anyone who has a sense of morality or ethics, and for the future of my child and our future. I honor and trust our Cities government (sic) and the hardships they have to endure and the things that I only have to guess they have to deal with but at the same time I challenge them to let their daughters, their mothers, their sisters or relatives stand on the side of the road and let everyone in their city employment call them SLUTS OR WHORES OR A SET OF BOOBS!! I challenge anyone of these city officials to let me enter their church and confront them with what they have put ME through and don’t think I won’t because I will…………Mr. City Manager, Mr. Mayor, City Councilmembers, be on notice………I will be at your church, I will ask you in front of your entire congregation to account for your actions before your G-d, and if you think that what you have “legally been held accountgable for” is righteous before G-d, then say so in front of YOUR PEERS. You should be ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES for what you have allowed to happen to your city, to your children and families, and G-d help us all if and when something actually happens to one of your own, how the hell will fall!! Is it only important if it happens to YOUR FAMILY?? I hope to G-d that nothing happens to your beloved’s, but if it does, please do not complain…..please do not moan or groan or feel aggrevied, you have condoned this behavior and have brought this upon yourselves……….may G-d bless your hearts and forgive you of your own self-righteousness!! I have never offered ill will upon my home town. And never will. I have never asked for monetary compensation for what I have had to endure. I HAVE ASKED FOR CHANGES TO BE MADE so this will not happen to any other qualified person in the employ of the City of Duncanville. And I have given this City EVERY opportunity to be aware and accountable for change for the betterment of our city….yet this has fallen on deaf ears and deaf hearts. My heart is tired………my tongue is quiet………my spirit is silent…………Let the G-d of Abraham and Moses have bearance on your souls and let the Creator of the Universe weigh heavy upon your hearts. I have nothing left except prayer left for all………..
The TruthBeTold………..
In Yeshua’s name I pray………….
And if all else fails……..read the book “The Shack”……it will change your life.
do it
June 17, 2009
I’ve called the EEOC once, and they were willing to do something for me, but I did not follow through, cause it resolved itself, but who filed the claim? Can anyone say on here? Was it a city council person, cause I thought that was who did it. Or maybe, he did it for someone else. If so, who does this claim represent? Can that be told, on here? Can I et a copy, or can you give out a copy after it is resolved? I’d like to see that. I don’t have anything I can use against the city, but know of people who do. What will happen with this claim? It is not for money, is it? I wouldn’t think it is. Can it get someone fired? What can it accomplish?
do it
June 17, 2009
Can I call them about the illegal arrest of the council member, or the retaliatory way in which they treated the police officer, who was only pointing out the bad things in the police dept? The police thing happened a few years ago. If I sit, long enough, I can think of a lot of crap that has gone on. How much info can I give them? Tell me, and I’ll do it.
do it
June 17, 2009
How they sat on the cherry pit for forever, how they are taking immoral advantage of grant money, and all the stuff that has been mentioned, here, and elsewhere, at some point.
godsmack
June 17, 2009
duncanville has really screwed with a lot of folks, as evidenced here. You have to be really hurting to be so angry, and I understand that