[Vision2020] Facts

[Darrell Keim]

Privacy laws can be inconvenient.  They are a double-edged sword.  But I
know of no better in protecting certain citizen rights.  I'd rather live
WITH the inconvenience then WITHOUT the privacy laws.

Yes a solid argument can be made about giving up privacy rights when
announcing MPD to a class.  An equally strong argument could be made that
someone with such issues is not in control enough to be able to knowingly
give up their rights.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Saundra Lund <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm>wrote:

> I seems to me a solid argument can be made that Bustamante waived any
> privacy rights surrounding his employment when he announced his “multiple
> personalities” to students in UI classes.
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> And, of course, there’s the giant white elephant in the room:  it’s
> obviously quite convenient for the UI to fall back on privacy laws when the
> employee isn’t ALIVE to give consent and the VICTIM -- a UI student who was
> “introduced” to her murderer in the course of her on-campus education here
> --  isn’t alive to tell her side of the story.  Quite convenient indeed.**
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> Saundra Lund****
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> Moscow, ID****
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> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.****
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> ~ Edmund Burke****
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> *From:* vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:
> vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] *On Behalf Of *Ron Force
> *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2011 7:54 AM
> *To:* vision2020 at moscow.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] Facts****
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> Why aren't they (the UI) talking?****
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> Idaho Code § 9-340C
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> (1) Except as provided in this subsection, all personnel records of a
> current or former public official other than the public official's public
> service or employment history, classification, pay grade and step,
> longevity, gross salary and salary history, status, workplace and employing
> agency. All other personnel information relating to a public employee or
> applicant including, but not limited to, information regarding sex, race,
> marital status, birth date, home address and telephone number, applications,
> testing and scoring materials, grievances, correspondence and performance
> evaluations, shall not be disclosed to the public without the employee's or
> applicant's written consent.
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> Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA****
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> *From:* Rosemary Huskey <donaldrose at cpcinternet.com>
> *To:* 'Paul Rumelhart' <godshatter at yahoo.com>; vision2020 at moscow.com
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:11 PM
> *Subject:* [Vision2020] Facts****
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> There are facts available via media and personal accounts about Ernesto
> Bustamante that are indisputable: he was a four year employee of the
> University;  he held a position of power over students; and he killed one of
> them.  These are the ingredients of a tragedy: a violent perpetrator, an
> innocent victim, and a gaggle of feckless enablers.  ****
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> I don’t really care what (if any) disease factor or personality disorder
> led to Dr. Bustamante’s crime.  There is no excuse, no justification that
> absolves him of clearly calculated, cold-blooded murder, and let’s not
> pretend there is.  Concurrently, his aberrant behavior was noticed and
> reported by students, his serial disregard of a non-fraternization policy
> between faculty and students, while not forbidden, should certainly have
> called his judgment into question. Surely over the  past four years his
> general demeanor was observed by professionally trained colleagues who, one
> can reasonably assume, are able to recognize deviant behavior occuring in
> front of their PhD eyes.  Why in the name of heaven was Bustamante retained
> on faculty for several years prior to Miss Benoit’s complaint?  Something is
> broken in this picture – not the least of which are the hearts of Miss
> Benoit’s parents, family, and friends. ****
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> Despite the terrible pain and loss the Benoit’s are experiencing,
> University of Idaho administrators have fled to the unholy sanctuary of
> privacy rights for a dead murderer, and by the way, conveniently sheltering
> themselves and the institution from any culpability.  I don’t believe I am
> alone, in pointing out that their graceless behavior shelters them from
> providing explanations on how this event came to be, and what they did or
> didn’t do that contributed to it.  At the very least we know that grievous
>  mistakes were made and sorrowfully, they can not be repaired.****
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> What a pity, and in my opinion a crime, that in a university of all places,
> a free and open appeal to truthfulness is trumped by laws which were never
> intended to obscure it.  Integrity has fled the scene, in favor of self-
> protection and a deeply flawed sense of loyalty to an institution which
> appears to be rotting from the inside.****
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> Rose Huskey****
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