Chris Prevatt, the editor in chief at “Liberal OC” likes to file what he calls his “Bull Dog Investigation” Reports. Examples include the posts in which he “obtained” the recordings of police encounters involving local Assemblyman Van Tran and Westminster Council Member Truoung “Tyler” Diep.
His latest doggy report is a self-made controversy over a perceived breach of the Brown Act at the Garden Grove Unified School District, by Trustee Lan Nguyen. Now for full disclosure, our readers should know that Lan Nguyen is my neighbor. We live three doors down from each other and I often see him and his family and we wave and exchange pleasantries on a regular basis. That’s about the extent of our relationship and I disclose this so that there is no illusion of an improper relationship influencing this article.
I did not receive a letter with legal findings by the GGUSD General Counsel from Lan Nguyen, or any agent on behalf of Lan Nguyen. It would be a stretch to say the same for Chris Prevatt and Janet Nguyen, but I’m sure you are all aware of that by now. It is widely know that Nguyen regularly hand-feeds Prevatt information about her opponents through her agents, the “Jannies.”
With regards to the latest tempest in a teapot whipped up by Prevatt, a legal opinion was sought by the GGUSD District Superintendent Laura Schwalm PhD. The general Counsel for the GGUSD reviewed the transcripts of the meeting and the issues raised by Trustee KimOanh Nguyen Lam. The General Counsel Ronald Wenkart reviewed the transcripts and found no violation of the Brown Act since there were two different topics discussed between Lan Nguyen and the two other Trustees involved.
You may read the legal opinion in the letter from GGUSD General Counsel for full details, by clicking here.
With Prevatt’s demonstrated ability to obtain audio recordings of other local officials from the Westminster Police Department, I am sure he will be right on top of reporting these latest developments over the Brown Act accusations at the GGUSD. After all he has been able to obtain audio recordings from the Police Department on his own and with no help from his handler Janet Nguyen….RIGHT?
Great reporting Paul!
Let me see if I understand you post correctly.
The superintendent asks the lawyer, that is hired and paid for by the board, if a State Brown Act violation occurred. I am not too surprised by the findings.
Not one Brown Act violation has ever been prosecuted in the State after being reported by a current board attorney! it is the attorney’s job to keep the members out of trouble.
Just ask the Westminster attorney who advised Tran about his dealings with casino mogul Steve Wynn. He thought they were acting legally. Unfortunately for them, the County and State DA found them in violation of the Brown Act…
Hmmm an attorney that tells a client what they want to hear, could never happen?…right…just…asking?
#2,
You make a good point, but really what happened here was typical Jannie B.S. They love to trump up charges and run for cover when others expose how thin the ice they are treading on really is.
Janet by the way told NO ONE that her hubbie and her Chief of Staff co-owned a restaurant that had receive dozens of County health violations, when she voted against proposed County Health letter grade ratings for restaurants. She also told NO ONE that she had received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from other restaurants with major health violations.
You see? She is just as bad as any other political hack when it comes to covering up her naughty deeds. And of course the blue blog in town didn’t report what happened after she voted against those health ratings. But the media did. Our report ended up on the AP wire!
Just Asking,
Youre missing the whole point of the post. That being what you will no hear on the Lib OC;
“Hi my name is Chris and I was wrong”
I was illustrating how balls deep in chris prevatt janet nguyen is.
“I was illustrating how balls deep in chris prevatt janet nguyen is.”
I was illustrating how balls deep in “______________”
“__________” is.
Janet Nguyen is to Chris Prevatt
as “Claudia Alvarez” is to “Sean Mill”.
no neutral political reporting on the blogs when it comes to keeping politicians accountable for their poor judgment, lack of extraordinary skills, lameness and low I.Q, or when they are way over their head, or when the general public wonders if they bought their position in the same manner that that Chicago politician was attempting to sell Obama’s U.S Senate seat.??
don’t know Prevatt.
BUT this is Sean’s only defect and it is causing him to lose ratings on the orange juice blog.
#5,
What the heck does Sean or Claudia have to do with this post? The fact is, I rip Claudia quite often, when she has it coming, but you cannot argue that she is the real power on the Santa Ana City Council. She has a firm grasp on the Council majority.
The fact is, Claudia is hated by the Usual Suspects, and with good reason. She doesn’t put up with their racist BS. She even tossed one of them off a City Commission recently, and she tossed Carlos Bustamante off the Toll Road Commission.
Do the Jannies EVER go after Janet when she screws up? Their latest post about her was an attack on John Moorlach, even though Janet voted to spend a third of a million on a Viet memorial that is within two miles from another such memorial, at a time when County workers continue to be laid off!
I like to point out that Mr. Ron Wenkart doesn’t work for GGUSD or any of the 27 local school districts under the County Board of Education. He is the General Counsel for Orange County Department of Education/OCBE.
The Jannies are trying to paint Mr Wenkart as a co-conspirator in the Brown Act Violation after the fact by spinnig his legal opinion to protect the GGUSD.
Mr Pham can you get a response from Mr Wenkart on this matter since I think we should all be confident in our institutions and representatives. Any accusation of collusion or covering up shuld be addressed and cleared or admitted to.
Dan C over at Fib OC just loves to spin on his blog and at the same time delete and censor comments that challenge him. So Im going to start postinghis comments and my replies so you can all see what is actually happening behind the scenes. Art we should have a special sectin for this category that people can go to once they open this page.
Not to send them any hits, but I found Paul Lucas’ latest \Jannie Report\ on the OJ to be a signed confession that he’s a complete \Trannie.\ If we’re going to play \guilt by association\ let’s play!
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Yes Dan,
Much like how Nick Bernardino paid for Janets legal bills for her recount and fight during her first run for the BOS. You like to deride my contribution which I took back from her but you have no indignatin for OCEA paying the whole bill….hmmmmmmm
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dan c loves to censor at fib oc.
dan,
I see youre still too much a coward to let a guy you take shots at fire back. True Blue Dem you are eh old boy? Must be great having all that power to censor and delete while not allowing anyone to retort you. True grit you got buddy.
#5,
“What the heck does Sean or Claudia have to do with this post?”
ANALOGY OF THE DAY!!!
“The fact is, I rip Claudia quite often, when she has it coming, but you cannot argue that she is the real power on the Santa Ana City Council. She has a firm grasp on the Council majority.
The fact is, Claudia is hated by the Usual Suspects, and with good reason. She doesn’t put up with their racist BS. She even tossed one of them off a City Commission recently, and she tossed Carlos Bustamante off the Toll Road Commission.”
Thanks for the history on this. Is she really hated by the usual suspects. I thought she was initially categorized as a usual suspect by you some time ago. Did she see the light?
thanks again for the insight on Ms Alvarez its good to know she is a asset to the council.
To Art Pedroza: The lawyer who rendered the Brown Act opinion is general counsel for the Orange County Dept. of Education — a separate entity from the Garden Grove School District. The Garden Grove District DOES not pay or hire this attorney.