DLSE allowed Lupe Almaraz to be named as a Defendant, failed to settle, and left him to twist in the wind...

DLSE Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz was a team player for his masters: he led the cheerleading for that horrible, taxpayer-paid multi-million dollar disaster called CMS, pleased his masters by violating the civil rights of a fellow state employee, and has done everything possible to ensure that his masters would pass him on his Deputy Chief probation. He (even) gave intimidating speeches to those employees who might pose a threat to him (at trial) and tampered chatted with potential court witnesses. At no time did he tell his masters "No, I won't do that." In his arrogance, he "outed" the blogger and publicly named the blogger in hopes of instigating a hostile work environment.

He did everything he could to obtain the identities of those confidential sources...and why? Because as soon as he was done with me, he was going to go after those who dared to move their lips. Deputy Chief Almaraz never bothered to review First Amendment case law because arrogant bureaucrats never feel the need to obey laws...it's their authority that should be obeyed.

I'm prepared to lose, I'm prepared for them to lose, I'm prepared for them to wrongfully terminate me, but I'm not prepared for them to start behaving professionally and within the confines of the law. That would be unpredictability shocking!