Two TYC Officials Quit Rather Than Be Fired
Vince Leibowitz | Mar 21, 2007 | Comments 0
The housecleaning at the Texas Youth Commission is finally underway:
Two top officials at the Texas Youth Commission were swept out of their jobs Tuesday, the first casualties of a promised agency housecleaning in a growing scandal over physical and sexual abuse of juvenile prisoners.
Deputy Executive Director Linda Reyes and general counsel Neil Nichols, who resigned, are not expected to be the last out the door in the next few days.
An official familiar with the investigation said the two veterans left under threat of termination, and they won’t be the only ones.
That the General Counsel quit is quite interesting. A General Counsel for such an agency would normally be responsible for making sure that things like the current scandal never happened in the first place, and would be responsible for keeping everything at the agency “legal.” I’d love to see Nichols called before the Joint Select Committee. If he was aware of stuff and other higher-ups in the agency didn’t want him to blow the whistle, that’d be very telling. If, on the other hand, he was aware of little or nothing, it would be telling, too.
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