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Meet Your County Commissioners Glory Hopkins, Fort Bend County District Clerk Continued from page 1
The technology committee did exactly what the Commissioners planned. The committee: · Recommended that Fort Bend County funnel millions of dollars into the Conference of Urban Counties (CUC) TechShare scheme; · Gave Commissioners control over the technological business applications of independently elected officials; and · Gave Commissioners control of all of the public records and data in Fort Bend County, giving them the option to turn our records and data over to the Conference of Urban Counties (CUC).
Commissioners claim that TechShare is going to “save” money but they can’t provide a detailed budget that mathematically proves their claim, and the funding proposal looks a lot like a pyramid scheme. County judges and commissioners are in charge of the CUC that is headquartered in Austin and supported by membership fees of participating counties. A lot of people are suspicious of the TechShare project because commissioners don’t support anything that does not benefit them. The question that is being asked across the State is “What are the commissioners getting out of it?” Dallas County Commissioner Mike Cantrell is on the CUC Board of Directors. He spearheaded the technology project that is “subjecting Dallas County to potential liability and creating headaches for officials trying to fix the problem.” As expected, Commissioner Cantrell is blaming the vendor that he recommended, instead of taking responsibility.
Imaged county public records have become a commodity of considerable commercial value to special interest groups that purchase them in bulk. The Fort Bend County Clerk has put your County records on the Internet and sold those images to vendors that target personal data, harvest it, put it on the Internet and/or resell it.
The CUC plans to control 80 percent of the public records in Texas. Rumors persist statewide that records and data of CUC member counties are targeted for their commercial value, and a lot of us are becoming very worried about the safety of our constituents and county records if commissioners and/or the CUC are allowed to have any control over them.
Commissioners created the technology committee to conceal their intention to control your public records and funnel millions of dollars to the CUC.
In Year 2003, they hired an unemployed friend as a “facilitator”, at an annual salary of about $100,000.
Commissioners repeatedly sent the facilitator to insult and bully my staff and me into lying about the District Clerk’s software business application (ACS) in order to justify replacing it with software chosen by the CUC. It took the facilitator over 40 months to get the “volunteers” to serve up every one of the Commissioners’ recommendations, which the Commissioners then rubber-stamped in July 2006. Pages: 1 2 3 Previous Page Next Page Get the Newsletter - It's FREE
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