Friday, September 2, 2011

Lumberton ISD and Hardin County Sheriff Department take Positive Steps Forward

by, David Bellow

As you know, I want government to be open and honest. When something is wrong or being hidden, I feel an obligation to get the word out about what is going on with the desire that things be made right.

It would not be right of me if I did not report when the wrong things are made right.


Lumberton ISD:

LISD has taken many positive steps forward in recent months. I previously reported that the Lumberton School Board was not being told about federal money that was received and spent by the LISD Administration. How can the School Board do their elected job of overseeing the school district if they are not even told about all the money received and being spent? I also reported that Lumberton ISD had a lawsuit against them for not having meeting minutes that were descriptive enough for the reader to know what went on during the meeting, and for going into executive session without explaining what they were going into executive session for. Lastly, I reported that there was a play performed at the high school that used vulgar language and that even mentioned putting an ad online for a kid to get laid. Not to mention the author of the play has a publicly known agenda of promoting a homosexual lifestyle through most of his school plays.

I am very pleased to say that these issues seem to have been corrected. I know a few of the Lumberton ISD Board Members and some of the people in the Administration. They are good people and so I knew that once these issues were brought to their attention that they would eventually be taken care of.

First of all, if you go to the Lumberton ISD website and read the meeting agenda and minutes, you will find that they are much more descriptive than they have ever been, and they contain most of the documents that the School Board Members see and approve at the meetings. If you did not go to the meeting you can now easily be able to find out what happened at the meetings by going to the LISD website.

Second, the LISD Administration now provides a summary of Federal Expenditures to the Board at each monthly meeting, to be approved as part of the monthly statement of expenditures. The Federal money is no longer hidden and now the Board and everyone can see that money.

Third, that inappropriate play will not likely be shown again anytime soon. The School District took alot of heat over the play. The students who were in the play of course all came out and defended the play at the School Board Meeting, but that is to be expected. They worked hard on it and so they wanted to defend it. But ultimately it should never have been approved in the forst place by the School Principal without first removing some of the inappropriate content. I believe this will be addressed with future plays. In fact, the Theater Arts teacher, Mrs. Ravencraft, who put on the play resigned last month and so she is no longer at the School District.

I am very pleased that the good people of LISD have addressed these issues and are moving forward in a positive way. I never said or even thought that Lumberton had a bad school system. We have a great school system here. In order for it to stay a great school system we have to always be sure to address issues or potential issues as soon as some up instead of being afraid to say something negative about the school district. The negative issues have been brought up and they seem to have been corrected. This is great news and I am happy to tell everyone this good news.

Hardin County Sheriff Department:

Earlier this week I reported that the Hardin County Sheriff Department was sued because they were not following the Texas Open Records Request laws and were withholding documents relating to the death of Nicole Janca. It was alleged that the Sheriff Department was not releasing the documents to cover for a Sheriff Deputy who is being sued by the Janca Family in the death of Nicole Janca. The lawsuit against the Sheriff Deputy was to ask a Judge to force them to hand over the documents.

I am pleased to say that 2 days ago, the day before the lawsuit went to trial, the Sheriff Department gave the Janca family over 130 documents that they were withholding. Yesterday the lawsuit was dismissed because the documents were finally handed over.

The intent of my article about the Sheriff Department was so that things would be corrected for the family of this dead girl. I am very pleased that Sheriff Ed Cain has taken a very positive step towards making things right for the Janca family. It took filing a lawsuit and some bad press to get it done, but it got done and that is a good thing. I was never "out to get the Sheriff" and I am not trying to get someone to run against him. In fact, it was a difficult decision for me to even write the article about the Sheriff Department because the Sheriff Department has many great deputies. But even though I did not want to be negative about the Sheriff Department, I knew that people needed to know what was going on so that the wrongs would be corrected for the Janca Family.

Things are on the right track for the Janca Family. Clint West has been charged for murder in the death of their daughter and the Sheriff Department has taken a positive step forward to correcting mistakes and I hope they continue to work with the Janca Family to resolve these issues.

10 comments:

  1. Thank you, thank you, thank you, David Bellow for coming forward with the story that needed to be told. I joke to others about the "good ole boy" mentality of Hardin County Sheriffs department but now people are seeing that it isn't a joke.

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    1. UP AT THE TOP, A PIOUS DUO THAT HAS NO QUALMS ABOUT KEEPING THE TRUTH COVERED UP.AT LEAST WITH THE SHERIFF CANE REPLACED, YOU KNEW WHERE YOU STOOD. I SAY, "VOTE FOR WERNER" AND GET SOME NEW BLOOD AND INTEGRITY IN OFFICE.

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  2. David Bellow you are so stuck on yourself...you think the sheriff's office released those files because of your lousy post...you are the biggest fool out there...trust me, it wont be long and we will be reading comments about how the republican whatever it is kicks you to the curb for your outlandish false comments. You say you appologized to Ed Cain but you still allow all of the negative comments on your site. Your a hipocrit!!!

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    1. and like number 1 and 2 in charge aren't? yea,ok

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  3. Bellow said it took a lawsuit and some bad press before the sheriff released the info. That is TRUE! After Bellow posted his article about the murder that is when the media finally reported that clint west was charged with murder. the sheriff office got bad press and they decided to give up the papers to get the lawsuit dismissed to they can try to look good. don't bash Bellow for that. That is the truth. Why didn't the sheriff release the papers sooner? Bellow even tried to be nice to the sheriff and thank him for taking a positive step forward. This shows me that Bellow just wants the truth to be heard and he is not tying to just be mean to the sheriff

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  4. All I'm going to say is we will be sitting back laughing at Mr. Bellow in the near future for the slanderous comments that he has posted in his blog.

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  5. oh yeah what part is slanderous? what part of the article is false? You talk a big talk saying Bellow lied. Prove it. Prove it that he is wrong about this article. What did he lie about? What did he get wrong? I am sure he would correct anything that is false. I know the Mrs Janca and Bellow hit the nail right on the head with his article about what is going on.

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  6. Maybe you haven't heard yet that Butler dropped the lawsuit against Tony Flower. That's because he has no evidence against Flower. For David to post all of the lie's that he posted about Flower just because Butler says so tells be that David Bellow is a cheap person. He can be bought for a small price. Butler used David to put his lies on his blog because he couldnt get any press to. Oh the law suit is fixing to backfire on the Butler law firm as well as David Bellow. Stay tuned for more on this story :)

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  7. no hard proof does not mean no guilt. Flowers admitted to seeing West drink and Flowers admits to telling flowers to get in a car and drive. A girl is dead. No hard proof for a trial does not mean Flowers is innocent or a good guy. OJ Simpson had no hard evidence against him but we all know he did it.

    Bellow just wants the truth. His story was based on the factual police reports and what Nicole Janca's mother said happened regarding how the sheriff department did not even collect all the evidence or investigate anything. In all fairness, I bet that Bellow would post Flowers side if Flowers offerd any information as to what happened that night and why he acted the way he did.

    Is flowers still in the psych hospital after pulling a gun out and going off the deep end. The cops got called out to stop him.

    That guy still has a badge. That is crazy

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  8. yea he's still got a badge.....and he didn't do it once, but twice.

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