Greg Schmidt, Superintendent of Minnewaska Area High School is teaching the tender young minds of lawless Pope County that there are (2) two different sets of laws: One sets for the people who think and act like they are above the law and a different set for everyone else, isn't he?
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He is, isn't he?
Feel Free To Use My Data Request:
Greg Schmidt, Superintendent of Schools 04-06-14
Minnewaska Area High School
25122 State Hwy 28 Emailed to: gschmidt@minnewaska.k12.mn.us
Glenwood, MN 56334 Re: Interrogation
of Minnewaska Area High School
25122 State Hwy 28 Emailed to: gschmidt@minnewaska.k12.mn.us
Phone: (320)239-4800 Students – Qualifications – Chapter 3 data request
Email: gschmidt@minnewaska.k12.mn.us
Email me the following public data:
1. Is it part of your job description
to interview/interrogate student at the Minnewaska Area High School?
2. What specific specialized training
have you taken that qualifies you to interview/interrogate student at
the Minnewaska Area High School (MAHS)? Minnesota Statute 13.43
Personnel Data. Subd. 2. Public data. (7) … work-related continuing
education; and honors and awards received.3. Are you trained in the Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation? Yes or No?
4. Are you trained in the Investigative Interviewing Approach of Interrogation? Yes or No?
5. Provide me the District's policy and procedure on interrogation of Minnewaska Area High School students.
6. A copy of the signed contract for local law enforcement to provide a school liaison officer.
7. Contact information for MAHS board members: Home/work/cell phone numbers and home address.
We offer a one-day training program on The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation for school administrators. In the last several years we have conducted this one-day seminar for school administrators in: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Oregon and New York.The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation for School Administrators. c 2012 John E. Reid and Associates, Inc. Presented by Joseph P. Buckley, President. JOHN E. REID AND ASSOCIATES, INC. info@reid.com, www.reid.com, jbuckley@reid.com
In Minnesota we're sort of in this transition because we've been recording interrogations now for about 15 years. We're sort of in a transition from the Reid approach to this investigative interviewing approach. Real Interrogation: What actually happens when cops question kids. By Barry C. Feld, Centennial Professor of Law, University of Minnesota. Lecture delivered February 14, 2013 at Arizona State University – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
I realize the name is the “Reid Technique of Interview and Interrogation”, but we, as school personnel, do not claim to interrogate anyone. We interview, we ask a lot of questions, we investigate, we make every attempt to follow the Reid technique to the letter; however, we do not call what we do interrogation. Interrogation stirs up mental pictures of smoke-filled rooms, bright lights, and other negative images portrayed in movies and on TV. The last thing you want going around your school/community is that the Deans/VP in your school interrogate students. It may be more palatable to describe what we do after initial interview as an effort to clarify an inconsistencies or discrepancies in the information that the student has given us. Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation - Tips for Educators by: Steve Greiner, Dean of Students. Crystal Lake High School. http://www.isda.us/images/Reid_tips_2.pdf
Terry Dean, Nemmers
20179 County Rd 28
Glenwood, MN 56334 Page 1 of 1
My Data Request That Is Being Willfully & Illegally Ignored:
The Reid Interrogation Technique For School Use:
Model District Policy 519 - Interview / Interrogation of Students:
Indeed the terms interview and
interrogation are of used interchangeably by investigators, depending
upon the audience being addressed. While testifying in court, the
investigator inevitably describes his conversation with the defendant
as an “interview.” This is so even if it lasted four hours and
clearly involved repeated accusations of guilt.
Interview: a free-flowing,
nonaccusatory meeting or discussion used to gather information.Interrogation: an accusational interaction with a suspect, conducted in a controlled environment, designed to persuade the suspect to tell the truth. Inbau, Fred E., Reid, John E., Buckley Joseph P., Jayne, Brian C. Essentials of the Reid Technique: Criminal Interrogation and Confessions. Page 3.
Minnewaska Area School Policy (MAHS Proudly Proclaims That They Have Rights & You Don't, Don't They?):
Indeed the terms interview and
interrogation are of used interchangeably by investigators, depending
upon the audience being addressed. While testifying in court, the
investigator inevitably describes his conversation with the defendant
as an “interview.” This is so even if it lasted four hours and
clearly involved repeated accusations of guilt.
Interview: a free-flowing,
nonaccusatory meeting or discussion used to gather information.Interrogation: an accusational interaction with a suspect, conducted in a controlled environment, designed to persuade the suspect to tell the truth. Inbau, Fred E., Reid, John E., Buckley Joseph P., Jayne, Brian C. Essentials of the Reid Technique: Criminal Interrogation and Confessions. Page 3.
The Supreme Court recognized this when,
in Miranda v. Arizona (1966:466), it wrote, “The entire thrust of
police interrogation ...[is] to put the defendant in such an
emotional state as to impair his capacity for rational judgment.”
The suspect's cognitive functioning and responses may be further
undermined by the time pressures that interrogators exert on him to
cooperate. Richard A. Leo, Police Interrogation and American Justice,
(Cambridge: 2008), Page 163.
The investigator's goal is to portray
the suspect as a rational agent who is freely choosing to participate
in the interrogation and making statements to police with
foreknowledge of his legal rights and options. Richard A. Leo, Police
Interrogation and American Justice, (Cambridge: 2008), Page 174.
American detectives keep their
practices hidden to avoid exposure or criticism, particularly in
high-profile or morally charged cases. They worry that opening up the
interrogation process to outside scrutiny could lead reporters to
write articles criticizing the fairness of their techniques,
prosecutors to report criticism to their superiors or to decline to
file charges, judges to suppress confession evidence, or juries to
fail to convict. Detectives understand that police interrogation in
the American adversary system is inherently morally problematic (and
therefore always potentially controversial), because it involves
behavior – psychological manipulation, trickery, deceit – that is
regarded as unethical in virtually all social contexts. Richard A.
Leo, Police Interrogation and American Justice, (Cambridge: 2008),
Page 187.
The rules or guidelines for MAHS could
be as simple as the following:
1. Respect yourself and others.
2. Help yourself and others maintain
high standards regarding academic performance and social conduct.
3. Respect the investment your
parents/guardians have made in this school by helping maintain good
appearance of the facilities. Minnewaska Area High School Student
Handbook 2013-2014.
Riley’s mother, Sandra Stratton, said
she wasn’t informed or invited to sit in when officials
“interrogated” her daughter. She did say the school called that
morning to discuss the parent’s complaint about the sex-talk
message with her son.“They never once told me they were going to
bring her into the room and demand her Facebook password,” Sandra
said. ACLU wins settlement for sixth-grader's Facebook posting –
ACLU sued Minnewaska school after sixth- grader was forced to give up
password. Article by: Curt Brown, Star Tribune. Updated: March 25,
2014 - 11:06 PM.
WARNINGS & SOLUTIONS FOR PROTECTING THEIR PRECIOUS CHILDREN!
Just another dirty little secret in a long list of lawless Pope County's dirty little secrets, right? That's right, isn't it?
More to come . . .
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