Santa Fe New Mexican, May 23, 2014

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New Mexico ranks highest in teen births A national analysis estimates state taxpayers spent about $103 million in 2010 as a result of births to teenage parents. PAge B-1

Police: Woman too scared to leave captor

Seniors mark the end of one chapter and the beginning of another at school’s 114th graduation. PAge B-1

Dumped recycling prompts city probe Investigation shows trucks took materials to landfill instead of center By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

The city of Santa Fe has beefed up training for drivers who pick up glass, plastic and other recyclables in light of a recent report that showed tons of the materials had been dumped at a landfill. A KRQE News 13 investigation released Wednesday alerted city officials that at least twice since January trucks had taken recyclables to the Caja del Rio landfill instead of the recycling center on Buckman Road. In total, more than four tons of recyclable materials were thrown out, according to KRQE and city records. Mayor Javier Gonzales told the television station he was disappointed and angry when he found out about the recyclables going to the landfill. The city is investigating. “We will learn from the mistake, and we will not let it happen again,” Lawrence Garcia, acting director for the city’s Environmental Services Division, told KRQE. Garcia referred followup questions from The New

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4 finalists vie for police chief spot Randy Foster

Eric Garcia

I believe I could increase morale and make it a great place to work and make positive changes throughout the city.”

It’s getting out of the police car and the office, and actually communicating with the public. We don’t wait for the public to come to us, we go to them.”

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Report: Funding down for public schools

Joseph Silva

Jerry Trujillo

Whatever model trainers use, the main goal is for officers to be peacekeepers.”

We need to have a complete evaluation of what we have in place. And we have to get input from the community.”

State invested 14% less last school year than in 2007-08, study says By Robert Nott The New Mexican

Hopefuls offer different backgrounds, priorities for position The New Mexican

B Workers sift through trash and recyclable materials in the sort room at the Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer Station in 2012.

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urglary rates in Santa Fe fell 20 percent under the tenure of former Police Chief Ray Rael, but ask most residents and they’ll tell you property crime is still rampant. That along with drug addiction, graffiti, officer morale — all are among a list of issues that the city’s new police chief will have to face. The city has narrowed the list of candidates to four finalists and is expected to make a decision soon. Today, The New Mexican profiles each of the four finalists, three of whom were selected by a citizen’s steering committee and a fourth who was added by Mayor Javier Gonzales and City Manager Brian

state Attorney General’s Office. He served with the Albuquerque Police Department starting in 1981, and he retired in 2003 as a deputy chief. u Jerry Trujillo, an assistant professor and a chairman of the college’s School of Trades, Technology, Sustainability and Professional Studies at Santa Fe Community College. He served with the Santa Fe Police Department from 1991 to 2010 when he retired as a captain. The candidates still must interview with the Snyder and Gonzales, and ultimately Snyder has final say on who will lead the department.

Snyder. Santa Fe’s police chief reports directly to the city manager, and the job pays between $85,946 and $142,280. The new chief would be in charge of 176 officers and 50 civilian employees. The shortlist, in alphabetical order, includes: u Randy Foster, a current Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputy. He served with the Los Alamos Police Department starting as a cadet in 1998 before he was ousted in 2013 as acting chief. u Eric Garcia, the current head of the Española Police Department. He served with New Mexico State Police starting as a patrol officer in 1996 before leaving the force in 2012 as a commander. u Joseph Silva, most recently a special agent in charge with the

A new report suggests that public school funding, adjusted for inflation, has dropped 14 percent between school years 2007-08 and 2012-13. The report, released Thursday by New Mexico Voices for Children, an Albuquerque-based children’s advocacy group, comes on the heels of a recent Center on Budget and Policy Priorities national study that finds that at least 45 states are funding less per student now than they were before the recession. The Voices for Children report culled data from New Mexico’s Public Education Department and the Legislative Finance Committee, as well as other sources, adjusting for inflation. It notes that the state invested about $2.915 billion in

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On local prom patrol Generation Next staff writers review a host of mostly memorable prom nights. PAge C-1

INSIde u For full profiles of the four police chief finalists, see PAgeS A-4, A-5.

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House votes to limit NSA’s phone data collection The New York Times

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the NSA unfettered power to collect bulk surveillance data. A year ago, a divided House nearly voted to strip all money from the NSA for such surveillance, over the protests of the Republican leadership. With anger over the leaks from Edward J. Snowden cooling, House

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