Wow, incredible, I had not heard about her non-renewal.
I really hope that an unbiased party with ethics does a complete review of this woman's allegations. Her allegations do not seem far fetched at all, imho. I hope she took copies of her 'evidence' with her before she was not renewed and presumably escorted out of her office.
I know just from working all of my life, that things go on in most places of work that aren't supposed to go on, and that government legislation has become a nightmare to deal with, however all of the private companies are supposed to act according to regulations, so why shouldn't the government itself also have to oblige. And these things aren't minor in nature.
It is interesting to me to read about her concerns regarding the changes that can be made within the computer system without there being a trace. Where i work we have what is considered to be a 'high tech' management system, but a few years ago errors were being discovered, and when I investigated as to why/how/who they were happening, we discovered that we had a rogue employee who was just smart enough to know a little bit, and he was making 'corrections' to his mistakes, but without telling anyone. His 'corrections' were completely invisible to see within this 'high tech sytem'. I mean... the corrected version would show up, but it would not say when it got changed, by whom, from what. Our system and business of course is minor in nature compared to the importance of what Ms. Sauvageau is talking about, and we always expect that those in authority know what they're doing. I can envision when I read this news article, how that type of thing can happen. It is all in the programming, implementation of checks and balances, access permissions, and oversight from higher ups. If someone is not on his/her toes, he/she would never know this problem existed. It sounds like Ms. Sauvageau, for as difficult as she may have seemed to be in getting along with others, was able to look into it and find these lapses and oversights, and she was likely seen as a problem for wanting these things to be corrected.
On another point in the article, I remember reading several years ago locally, a newspaper article about who it is exactly that picks up the dead bodies from crime scenes if they have been murdered, for transport to the morgue for autopsy. It isn't an ambulance, and it isn't a hearse. It talked about some fellow who did this for a living. I can easily see how just 'someone' might be hired.. because perhaps he's one of few offering such a service. What ARE his credentials? Likely none, and possibly from the shady side, because who would really want to have to do that? Who knows? I believe Ms. Sauvageau is right in that these people are not just picking up the things that nobody else wants to do, they hold an extremely important job in the preservation of critical evidence, and if something were to be altered somehow, who would ever know, and who is held accountable? If they hire criminals to perform such services, who is to say they aren't making additional monies on the side for add-on services? Criminals seem to know one another.... jeez what a thought!
The detail that she has given into the things that are wrong, give weight to her concerns, imho, enough to suggest they are much more than just retaliation against her non-renewal, although I'm sure they will want to present it like that in court as their defence (if it even ever reaches a courtroom, which I doubt). When you think that people could be sent away for 25 years or more of their lives based on evidence which could have been manhandled, it's a scary thought!
We had discussed way back about the transparency within the office of the Chief Medical Examiner. I thought I would share this current story regarding the recently dismissed ME Anny Sauvageau.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...s-security-gaps-missing-guns/article23381019/
"A former chief medical examiner says Alberta’s handling of post-mortem examinations is so riddled with security gaps that staff can go in and change an official cause of death without a trace.
Anny Sauvageau says she found missing guns, questionable money handling and a system that allows people with criminal records to transport bodies from crime scenes — something she says gives them control over a critical legal chain of evidence."
in our world. Some people cannot even get a job at a gas station and the fact that there are criminals involved with the ME is just wrong>
