HomeMy WebLinkAbout20170811.tiffWeld County Board of County Commissioners
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Greeley, Colorado 80631
Dear Weld County Commissioners:
March 20, 2017
RECEIVED
MAR 2 0 2017
WELD COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
I reviewed the report written about the release of the employee complaint. In it, the
conclusion is that because I released information to a reporter for Complete Colorado I must
have released the complaint to the Greeley Tribune.
This is absolutely not true.
First, I did let the Complete Colorado reporter see portions of the redacted complaint in order
to verify the pattern of retaliation being taken against me for waiving privilege and releasing
emails concerning Xcel. Based on the frequent statements in all these investigations, this
appears to be an ongoing motive.
After the Complete Colorado report, not one person could identify who that person was from
that article.
However, it should be noted that many people were already aware of the complaint and that it
was filed and what it was about. I base this on the fact that I was contacted by numerous
people who related that they had heard about this complaint from one of the other
commissioners and that my wife had been contacted by two people who expressed dismay that
I was being accused of sexually assaulting county employees. In addition, at least 14 people
had been interviewed by the Mountain States investigator by the time I spoke with this
reporter. Each of those persons knew of the allegations because they had been told by the
person setting up the interviews. Remember one person had to be "sought out"?
In addition to all of this, one of the persons who held the complaint during this time in
question, lied to the Mountain States Investigator that I was not attending a funeral on
December 16. This was used to determine my lack of credibility by the investigator. Yet, this
person has yet to correct that information with the investigator and ask for a further analysis
given that information. In my mind, it makes it a lie. Why would someone make that kind of
statement and not correct it knowing the truth?
The release on or about January 6 to the Greeley Tribune of the complaint filed by the
employee directly occurred in my opinion in the belief that someone thought it would bolster
the argument against me assuming a coordinator position by releasing that complaint.
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Release of that complaint was one thing; publication of all the details was another.
I was called long,,after discussions were held with at least two other commissioners. I firmly
believe that if the County Attorney and those commissioners had said it was a personnel matter
instead of the inflammat•rhetoric used to a reporter, nothing would have been published.
Thus, the sending of the report was one part of the exposure of the complaint to the public
through the Greeley Tribune. The other was the comments made by commissioners who
should have realized that by commenting they exposed the contents of the document and the
employee.
Perhaps that was the plan in order to justify the action taken just a few days before on January
4 to deny me a coordinator position and kick me off a number of boards. Tell me how that
benefitted me to release the complaint to the Tribune?
Other allegations against me surface in this report. I have not written or had others write letters
to anyone anonymously. I have in fact condemned this behavior. It seems that these wild
allegations against me are further attempts at retaliation since comments by my county fellow
commissioners till hammer back to the Xcel emails.
And since I keep hearing about the release of the Xcel emails, let me assure you that before I
was asked to comment and waive privilege on those, the reporter had hard copies of all of the
emails that were obtained from another source. I decided to waive privilege and resent those
so that it could be verified as the actual statements. My decision to waive privilege was based
on sound legal advice that included advice from a Georgetown Law School graduate and a
University of Chicago Law School professor amongst other attorneys. I did so after I was
personally confronted by one of my fellow commissioners threatening that this behavior would
continue.
Even with all that I have had to endure as well as my family, I would still do that. Government
must not be conducted in secret.
Since you have decided to release the report, which I suspect you believe will casts me in a bad
light, remember that it reveals other information about employees and commissioners. I won't
be the only one cast in the spotlight. And please do a better job of redacting information than
you did in the last report you released. Based on comments I have heard; everyone's identity
was easily established because of the poor job done on redaction on the last report.
Sincerely,
Sean Conway
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