To recap, we caught wind that a NH Dept. Of Environmental Services employee, Richard de Seve (former lawyer, chapter VP in the NH SEIU), was politically blogging on the taxpayer dime and time. So, we decided to find out what the State had to say about it and found this IT policy concerning the use of State paid computer / network resources. Once that was posted, Mr. de Seve decided to write an email to Steve (posted here) in which he said he “sorry, won’t do it again) but also demanded that Steve apologize to his SEIU “brothers & sisters” (which Steve did in his usual great “Steve” fashion).
Well, that led to our next post in which we launched a Right To Know request (details here). And we did get a response (after the jump).
Along with it we received a different IT policy that is specific to the Departmental of Environmental Services – Apparently (as NH Rep. Seth Cohn informed me a while ago), when it comes to IT policies, there is a Balkanization that has happened: every man for himself! Who knows, maybe this will lead to some other actions that were unintended from our original thoughts.
The problem, though, is that IT policy is the ONLY thing we have received at this point – not what we expected. Well, we did copy some Legislators on our original request – and we heard back from several of them. While I have had some pleasant conversations with the DES “RTK dude” Pete Demas concerning the request, we’ve not received ANY of the requested data as of yet.
We can be a patient lot here at GraniteGrok – but I’m figuring that perhaps it is time to talk to some of those Legislators again.
