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| Santa Fe County fires corrections director |
| By santafenewmexican.com - Phaedra Haywood |
| Published: 02/23/2012 |
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Santa Fe County Corrections Director Annabelle Romero was fired Wednesday morning. "They gave me no reason," a tearful Romero said in a phone interview Wednesday. "They just called me in and gave me a real short letter." Romero -- who has overseen the county jail for the last five years -- said her termination might have something to do with two articles in the weekly Santa Fe Reporter. One of the stories, which was published in July 2011, speculated that the county might privatize medical care at the jail. The other was critical of Romero's boss, Pablo Sedillo III, who was recently hired to fill the newly created position of public safety director. According to the Feb. 15 story, Sedillo had been terminated from his job as warden of a jail in Arizona after conditions at that facility became so dangerous that officials couldn't tour the jail. Romero said she did not have anything to do with either article, but she said Sedillo's attitude toward her seemed to change after the first article was published, and he began disciplining her for what she saw as minor infractions. Romero said Wednesday that during a meeting about a contract for medical care at the jail, County Manager Katherine Miller "started screaming at me and none of us knew why." Romero said Miller screamed at her for "a long time, like 30 minutes or so." After the meeting, Romero said, one of her employees resigned to take another job and advised Romero to do the same. Read More. |
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