Discussion prompt: the lack of safety and accountability in educational settings within the state of Nevada. The soundness of an elected state employee carrying a firearm to protect themselves from students. Notice: this letter discusses documented crimes students have become victims of while attending NSHE institutions.
October 29, 2021
Byron Brooks, Regent
Nevada System of Higher Education
Re: Safety of students attending NSHE colleges and universities
Regent Brooks,
Upon reading Chancellor Rose's October 4, 2021 complaint re: the hostile work environment at the Nevada System of Higher Education, I thought back upon our telephone conversation in which you stated that you would be following up and investigating the fraudulent response provided by UNLV subsequent to the May 25, 2019 first-degree kidnappings occurring at UNLV-affiliated campus-adjacent “student housing” complex.
As the accrediting agency of UNLV, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities directly determined that UNLV engaged in “a pattern of fraudulent communications” against students. It appears highly unseemly that you not only continued NSHE's pattern of failing to engage in oversight of these matters, but when presented photographic evidence of the individuals who had engaged in these violent kidnappings and assaults, you sought to benefit only your own personal safety through a concealed carry on-campus permit which multiple victims of violent crimes at UNLV campus-affiliated “student housing” have been previously denied. Your actions on this matter continue to leave students in fear and terror; your actions are in complete abdication of your oath of office and elected responsibilities to champion and uphold the legal rights of students.
Former Board of Regents Chairman and current Regent Jason Geddes has stated publicly that the Board of Regents should wait for the conclusions of the investigation into Chancellor Rose's hostile workplace allegations by Kamer Zucker Abbott, (a firm that NSHE has previously contracted with at taxpayer expense to clear itself of wrongdoing), before taking action as a Board. It is quite disingenuous on the part of a number of Regents, including Regent Geddes, to continue to repeat this talking point, when the Board of Regents has previously failed in responding to emergency student matters which have been properly investigated by outside entities. These issues have been adjudicated; not only did the NWCCU determine that UNLV engaged in “a pattern of fraudulent communications”, but the United States Department of Education has voided all federal student loans which were predicated upon these “fraudulent communications” as well.
NSHE's Board of Regents possesses the ultimate responsibility in overseeing compliance with state and federal laws by member colleges and universities, including UNLV. During our telephone conversation, you stated that you would be checking in with Joseph Reynolds, General Counsel for NSHE. Based upon your subsequent lack of response, it appears that you did not follow through with federal investigators.
Over twenty of Joe Reynold's Boyd School of Law colleagues have come out publicly against Mr. Reynolds for engaging in “educational malpractice”. Joe Reynolds documented “educational malpractice” extends to Mr. Reynolds' efforts to continually mislead others into believing he is lawfully “handling” situations that do in fact require oversight and verifiable legal compliance.
At present, Joseph Reynolds, is actively involved in:
Criminal violations of legally guaranteed rights of students who have been accepted into Nevada's Victims of Crime Program; as legally guaranteed under the Nevada Victims' Bill of Rights.
Refusal by UNLV/NSHE to comply with FERPA.
Refusal by UNLV/NSHE to comply with Nevada's Open Records Act.
Violations of Nevada's Open Meetings Law.
Coercing, harassing, and intimidating victims of violent campus crimes.
Through omission and fraud, the misuse of law enforcement resources across state lines.
The problems facing NSHE at present are not limited merely to the present Chair and Vice Chair. NSHE has allowed systemic corruption to run rampant and contrary to the very principles upon which NSHE was founded.
Regent Brooks, despite the recent assertion to the contrary by the Las Vegas Sun, you and I are both aware that you were also named in Chancellor Rose's complaint. Your actions, as detailed in Chancellor Rose's complaint, are antithetical to the responsibilities for which you were elected to uphold. I contacted you in your position as a Regent, to help ensure the safety of students. Your actions have run counter to the words you hollowly espoused via phone on this matter.
Regent Brooks, I am publicly calling for you to bring forward an agenda item to investigate the confirmed “fraudulent communications” (NWCCU) of UNLV staff and administrators involving “illegal, retaliatory measures to coerce, harass, and intimidate” (National Youth Rights Association) law-abiding students who were made victim of violent campus crimes and the subsequent failure of oversight by NSHE. These “illegal, retaliatory measures” were spearheaded by the following UNLV and NSHE administrators and legal counsel:
UNLV
Keith E. Whitfield
Chris L. Heavey
Sandra Gajkowski
Marta Meana
Phillip Burns
Juanita P. Fain
Brent M. Drake
Dean J. Gould
NSHE
Joseph C. Reynolds
Jason D. Geddes
Patrick R. Carter
The above-named individuals directly perpetrated the hostile environment which victims of campus violence were subjected to. These individuals directly aided and abetted felonious violence committed by students; these administrators engaged in direct criminal misconduct in furtherance of covering up NSHE's failures of oversight, which has resulted in the unsafe campus environments for which you as a Regent deem unsafe enough as to require your own personal, lethal protection.
It is unacceptable that at present the only individual on a NSHE-operated campus that is any safer from further violence is yourself. You may not even be aware, but prior to your appointment as a Regent, NSHE already increased the amount of visible security at meetings directly after NSHE was made aware of the spate of first-degree kidnappings which occurred over the summer months of 2019 on and around UNLV's campus. Such conduct is a continuation of the pattern of self-serving dealings which NSHE engages in regularly at taxpayer expense, with zero benefit to the public at-large.
Regent Brooks, you owe the citizens of Nevada an obligation to request that either the State of Nevada or a federal agency with the ability to prosecute investigate NSHE for lack of actionable resolution of UNLV and NSHE's participation in provable, determined and confirmed fraud, (NWCCU and U.S. Department of Education). NSHE has taken extraordinary efforts to avoid responsibility for misconduct, including going so far as to hire away the services of the state's lead ethics investigator after having been made aware of formal complaints against NSHE with the state's commission on ethics.
If you are unable to secure the necessary two additional votes of your fellow Regents to bring forward this agenda item, I am calling upon you to resign from your position as a member of the NSHE Board of Regents, for the safety of students. The students served by NSHE's Board of Regents deserve better than Regents who will stoop so low as to secure their own personal safety, while actively electing to ignore the safety of students.
Members of the Board of Regents regularly make reference to bylaws of the Board of Regents, in matters serving the interests of the Board. At the same time, the Board of Regents has repeatedly deferred ultimate responsibility on this matter involving UNLV's participation in “fraudulent communications” to Joe Reynolds. Joe Reynolds has been publicly condemned by his colleagues, while actively retaliating upon students, and deliberately misleading the public on his participation in matters which are the sole legal authority of the NSHE Board of Regents.
Submitted November 01, 2021 at 07:21AM by Alloy_ahoy https://ift.tt/2ZGCfpO
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