Daily Journal of Commerce and the Sutor Group Report
Here's one other piece of this puzzle of a crisis - the tracking of the Sutor Group report. Back in early 2009, district communications, for whatever reason, had been talking up the Small Business Works program. The Daily Journal of Commerce decided to do a piece on it. But the reporter wasn't going to just do some fluff piece "look at this great program" based on what the district PR put out. He had done a public disclosure request and got the Sutor Group report. Apparently, he called the district with questions and word went out to upper administration from Communications; the Daily Journal of Commerce had the Sutor Group report and may call about findings. All calls were to be referred to Communications. Now MGJ put this in her daily Friday updates to the Board. Why no one on the Board thought, "What is this report and why does it have actions and responses that a reporter would call about?" The Board did not receive the Sutor Group report and w...