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What is going on, here? What exactly is the finish line? What exactly are taxpayers paying for?
Good to see this basic common sense post, standing up for basic principles, due diligence, & the rule of law.
Where is the mainstream media?
IF COMPLIANCE ISN’T ENOUGH, WHAT IS Judge Snow?!
The only consistent person involved in the Melendres case is you! Even Arpaio was gone a decade ago!
Yesterday’s Melendres ruling raises a question every Maricopa County taxpayer should be asking:
What exactly is the finish line?
MCSO has achieved 100% Phase 1 compliance. The policies and leadership responsible for the original constitutional violations are long gone. Multiple sheriffs have led this agency since then. Even the United States supported substantial relief from these orders.
Yet the Court denied MCSO’s request for relief.
So I have some questions.
If Full and Effective Compliance doesn’t result in ending oversight of compliant provisions, what does “Full and Effective Compliance” actually mean?
How can MCSO prove it can operate without the Monitor when it is never permitted to operate without the Monitor?
If statistical disparities alone do not establish intentional racial discrimination—as the Court itself acknowledges—what evidence establishes that today’s MCSO is intentionally discriminating?
And while the federal court continues demanding accountability from MCSO, taxpayers should demand accountability for the Monitor itself.
Records obtained after Judicial Watch pursued the Monitor billing records raise questions that should concern every taxpayer.
One November 2025 Warshaw invoice totaled $428,744.42, including 1,305.9 professional-service hours billed at $300 per hour. The public-facing invoice does not identify employee-by-employee time entries supporting those 1,305.9 hours. Thank you @JudicialWatch
Yet taxpayers were ordered to pay.
The records also show repeated lodging, meal per diem and mileage reimbursements for Chief Sherry Kiyler, whom Judicial Watch identified as living in Chandler. Some invoices specifically describe “Roundtrip Mileage to Phoenix, Chief Kiyler” and “Roundtrip Mileage for Chief Kiyler to MCSO Offices.”
So why were Maricopa County taxpayers also paying for local hotel rooms and per diem?
Maybe there is a legitimate explanation.
Then show us.
Where are the written business-necessity approvals? What travel policy authorized the expense? Who reviewed it? Were any Monitor charges rejected or reduced? What documentation did the Court examine before determining these invoices were “reasonable”?
That is the problem.
This is not an accusation of fraud or corruption. It is a demand for transparency and equal accountability.
If a federal court is going to compel Maricopa County taxpayers to fund a private monitoring operation year after year, then the public deserves to see enough information to independently determine whether those expenses are necessary, reasonable and properly authorized.
The federal government demands that MCSO show its work.
The people should be allowed to demand the same from the federal oversight system.
After more than a decade, hundreds of millions of dollars in overall compliance-related public expenditures, multiple sheriffs and extensive institutional reform:
What is the finish line?
What exactly are taxpayers paying for?
And if compliance isn’t enough to end federal oversight—
tell the people you are supposed to serve what is? Your Honor…..?
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Hey, @Google AI, what are Precinct Committeemen in Rhode Island called?
We see Democrat info. Why you omit any link to a resource for Republicans?
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