Union Prez One Of The IT Bosses NHPS Placed On Leave

This is a travesty. Mayor Justin Elicker & his administration should be ashamed of themselves. The truth will come out and the mayor will have a huge stain on his résumé. There should be investigations done on the mayors staff & how they retaliate against those who dont conform to their ideas & vision.

No one ever gets put on leave except teachers. And if they are denying it is related to the 6 mil; it's the 6 mil!!
If everyone who didn't do their job was placed on leave, City Hall would be empty, except for the poor taxpayers coming to pay up.....
Please stay on this story-- The Elicker Administration promised TRANSPARENCY--- hold them to it!

I can only guess that NHPS expects the IT department to work with half the people they need. And salaries below what a GOOD tech can get anywhere else. But that is just a guess since it's been over 20 years since I was the Director. How many "NHPS EMAIL" users expose the servers at Gateway to Hackers every day? My GE team in the server room are all making well into the 6 digit numbers guess what their not at NHPS.

As easy as it is to find out who these employees are, I'm surprised that the administration did not drop their names, seeing that they do so with others being investigated.

This is very interesting. I wonder what other information will come out in the future.

I love the comments but you are all off base. If you stop pointing the finger at everybody else and just do your job there wouldn't be a problem. How many chances do people get to get it wrong and keep there jobs. They have been at least for 4 blunders. Now what tax payers info is at risk which costs the city more money so that means tax payers dollars :)

I hope the public doesnt rush to judgment here. The mayor is pro-union when hes shivering in his boots during election time but once he wins that election his cockiness rises to an all time high. Justin Elicker & his administrations poor treatment of the unions & union members will no longer be tolerated. This is a show of force trying to tarnish a union leaders name & credibility so Elicker can do as he pleases. The administration has made many attempts to dismantle & weaken the local unions in the city over the years but this is a new low. Were living in unprecedented times & some legitimate form of investigations should be done on this Mayor & Administration when Gilda is cleared of any wrongdoing. It is not only unethical but illegal to retaliate against an employee due to their union affiliation.

Elicker is still hiding the truth about the $6M!

This is why he won't appoint me to FRAC; he knows I'll sniff out all his shenanigans.

Wait until his budget comes out with another huge tax increase

PEOPLE STEAL. Stop acting like this is a far-fetched idea and let the investigation clear.

It is hard to tell, who knows what, and what is accurate, what is the truth. If this is some retaliation, nothing new. Not just in this adminstration, but in every administration prior to Elicker. That's how he learned to do it. Take an inappropriate action, that will cause expensive litigation, and maybe even a more expensive settlement, but do it to create grief in the life of a person in your administration who is not being or doing. The freedom to do this is a lack of personal penalties that will be incurred by the mayor, and his directed administrative "hit women and men". THE TAXPAYERS WILL PAY! For the Lawyers; for the settlements. And no one can interfere with the mayor's staff from starting these messes, as they may be gone, and never held responsible when courts legally stop them from doing what they knew was illegal to start with, but years later. This type of thing is not new.
OR, if these individuals are so incompetent, and were hired incompetent, and failed to learn how to do the job they were paid to do, fire them, and then go up the ladders, and point out who their allies were that used political influence to get them hired onto the city's payroll, and then again, to assist them in promotions, and pay increases. THAT WON'T HAPPEN! Accountability does not exist in city politics, state, and federal too. $6,000,000(SIX MILLION DOLLARS) lost? That is really bad for the city's budget. Not having the training and experience, to have prevented this type of computer theft(there should be a stronger word for this theft, due to the size, and methodology used to steal 6M from the city's bank account). Oh, and how many landmines exist within the ranks of management on the New Haven Payroll. How many are incompetent? How many used political influence to acquire management jobs? How many don't know what they are suppossed to do, or improve on it, when they say yes to taking these positions. HOW MANY ARE RELATED TO CITY POLITICIANS?

Most of the people here have no knowledge or no respect for due process. Why are you so quick to opine on matters for which you have no evidence for? Let the process play out and we will have answers. While I understand some of the slant and bias that comes from other communities that have a history of bad judgment and cultish mindsets, I expect better from my fellow New Haveners. I hope that Trumpism is not allowed to grow in my beloved city. Is it too hard to wait for conclusive evidence before assuming anything. Moreover, blaming the Mayor is a colossal failure of intelligence.

Speaking of "hackers" and $6 million" missing, were any of you aware that many City employees identities were "hacked" and this "hackers" collected unemployment almost a year? Did the City reached out to these victims? NO, supposedly Payroll Dept. was not aware. Is this a case of understaffing, lack of training, laziness, cover ups? One thing for sure, many City departments have fall into the slow motion lack of performance mode. You still have City staff working from home, or coming into work 2 or 3 days out of week! And taxes keep going up.

I hope that this investigation probes deeply enough to expose why this department has blocked next to 0 websites on the NHPS network for years. Social media; major shopping conglomerates; game sites; adult only sites are all accessible to anyone using the network, and the BOE has done nothing to address it. (Test the theory by signing in to your childs school-issued Chromebook within range of the NHPS network and try accessing websites.) Catching concerning student behavior on-line has been left up to individual schools, and is dependent upon what they have for an IT department, and whether teachers have been trained (on their own time) on GoGuardian, purchased as a 2 year contract 2022-2024.
Try to access the NHPS IT department from the district website, and youll be at a loss. There is no link; no list of staff; no contact information.
Can we hope for some transparency and accountability now?

Not surprised...The city has a history of "investigating" individuals they cannot control! While taxpayers pay for these individuals to go on paid leave often times suing the city for false accusations. This woman is an intelligent human being with common sense. She successfully led negotiations for her membership, Local 3144 Management for the city. It is public knowledge that the city has yet to sign the contract. These employees have not had a cost of living increase in years, while prices on everything has damn near doubled since COVID-19.
Oh and yes, I cannot forget the word no one wants to hear-"racism". A Latina woman, intelligent, fearless, and competent...dealing with the likes of Elicker, Sean Matteson, etc. You better believe it!
Just look back on the history of all former employees who sued the city for false accusations. They were a threat to the administration. Keep the fight spirit Gilda! Elicker and Sean where's that 6 million dollars! Let's investigate that!

This is disturbing but I'm not at all surprised to see Elicker's administration retaliate this way. It is also very interesting timing as you can see on the City's website that the 3144 contract is still pending signature. Gilda Herrera is a strong woman of color, unafraid to stand up to those in power, unfortunately met with a sad, predictable response from the current administration. Good on AFSCME for seeking recourse.

I am beginning to see why Dennis trolls the mayor. He was not appointed to FRAC. Blaming the mayor without evidence is what he does routinely. I guess we have legions of our fellow citizens who rely on myth, smears, and bias to form judgments. I wonder has Dennis ever applied for a job during Elickers tenure and not been hired? I sense some fox and the grapes backlash here.

Half or more of NHPS central office should be placed on leave for poor performance.