Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s executive order on Jan. 19 mandated an end to the long-standing practice of housing foster youth in the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department’s office buildings. But it also raised questions about the state’s bill of rights for children. The order presents significant challenges for foster care caseworkers, who have […]
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Protect and serve: Did county officials enable Ryan Martinez’s violent actions at the 2023 Oñate protest in Española?
Two survivors have filed suit against Rio Arriba County office-holders, alleging that their civil rights were violated when they failed to control dangerous conflicts surrounding the proposed reinstallation of a statue depicting Juan de Oñate
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New Mexico’s open records law survives an unusual day in court
Mostly. A judge’s ruling on a request by the estates of Gene and Betsy Hackman slightly limited which information about their deaths can be released, and won’t serve as a strong precedent.
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The Gene Hackman estate is right to worry about public release of images from the scene of his death
Judging by what happened with crime scene photos from the murders made famous by Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” public interest in seeing post-mortem images of the Hackmans will be extremely high
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Sébastien Philippe
Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton, N.J.
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Rose Gottemoeller
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
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Dylan Spaulding
Union of Concerned Scientists, Global Security program, Cambridge, Mass.
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Frank N. von Hippel
Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton, N.J.