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Dec 27, 2008
Mayor evicts Second Chance: Center violated its lease, city says — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
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Dan McKay ,
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal Mayor Martin Chavez on Friday sent a notice to the Second Chance rehabilitation program, ordering it out of the old West Side jail by Jan. 31.
The city contends that Second Chance violated its lease agreement by housing violent offenders and making unauthorized changes to the building.
C h ave z said he was particularly c onc er ne d that Second Ch a nc e, i n h is v iew, had recently moved some of its residents to "avoid ...
Dec 26, 2008
Officials say lease is probably up for Second Chance Center — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal The controversial Second Chance Center is probably not going to get another chance, officials said Thursday.
The violent criminals from around the state who are being housed at the secure residential drug treatment facility may cost Second Chance its lease on the old West Side jail building, Albuquerque Chief Public Safety Officer Pete Dinelli said Thursday.
Housing inmates with convictions for violent offenses is in direct violation of Second Chance's mandate, Dinelli said.
"We made it very clear to (Second Chance) ...
Dec 25, 2008
Second Chance inmates moved: 8 are driven away in van; 40 people taken to shelter — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal Dec 25, 2008 (Albuquerque Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
Eight inmates were loaded onto a van at the embattled Second Chance Center drug rehabilitation program early Wednesday and driven west from the secure center and across the Bernalillo County line, officials said.
Another 40 people were loaded onto a bus outside the center and dropped off at an Albuquerque homeless shelter, city officials said.
Authorities are still trying to sort out how many of the 48 people were ...
Dec 20, 2008
Center may be out of options: Second Chance must make accounting to city or face closure — Albuquerque JournalMore: forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal The Second Chance Center has until Christmas Eve to satisfy the city or face eviction.
If the secure rehabilitation facility for drug offenders currently leasing the old West Side jail building from the city doesn't give a detailed accounting of its inmates, what charges landed them at Second Chance, what treatment they are receiving and information about the center's insurance and property taxes, it will most likely be shut down, city officials said.
Albuquerque Chief Public Safety Officer Pete Dinelli sent ...
Dec 18, 2008
NM rehab center housing overflow inmates — Albuquerque Journal
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Albuquerque Journal ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A controversial Albuquerque rehabilitation center is struggling with finances, and the secure facility for drug and alcohol offenders could be in violation of the law that allowed it to open by housing overf low prisoners from a county jail .
The Second Chance Center uses massage, natural diet, saunas, and some training manuals based on criminal justice research done by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to detoxify and rehabilitate drug offenders.
But the program is facing ...
Oct 7, 2008
Commissioners decline to pursue rehabilitation program — CNJ
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sharna Johnson Source:
CNJ Curry County Commissioners agreed Tuesday not to pursue a contract with an Albuquerque rehabilitation program aimed at treating habitual drug offenders.
[Picture: "Following Tuesday's meeting, officials toured the Special Events Center. Construction on the Special Events Center is about 98 percent complete with more than $31,000 left in contingency, Construction Project Supervisor Randy Kamradt said."]
County Manager Lance Pyle told commissioners at Tuesday’s meeting the Second Chance Center has neglected to return a signed contract to the county since the commission ...
Oct 7, 2008
Rules set for downtown Scientology project — KRQE
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KRQE ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The Albuquerque City Council Monday night unanimously denied the Church of Scientology's request to apply for a permissive-use permit for a downtown building. The church wants to convert the former Gizmo Store building in the 500 block of Central Avenue SW into the local Scientology center. A permissive-use permit would make that easier. Instead the council agreed with the ruling of a hearing officer who determined the Scientologists must seek a conditional-use permit. That will require another hearing. ...
Jun 10, 2008
Church Appeals to Panel — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sean Olson Source:
Albuquerque Journal The Church of Scientology of New Mexico was back for another city zoning hearing Monday as part of its attempt to relocate its church to Downtown Albuquerque. The church wants to move to the Gizmo building at Fourth and Central but has faced some community opposition and zoning challenges, delaying the building's proposed remodeling. "We're not arguing with the city; we just want to sort all this out," church community affairs director Sandy Block said Monday. Monday's hearing took up the ...
Jun 9, 2008
Appeal heard for Downtown church — New Mexico Business Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom O'Connell Source:
New Mexico Business Weekly Albuquerque's land use hearing officer has 10 days to present his recommendation to the City Council for the special zoning of a church for the Church of Scientology in Downtown. In a public appeal of a code compliance official's declaratory ruling on churches in the City Council Committee room this morning, Church of Scientology of New Mexico attorney David Campbell told Land Use Hearing Officer Steven Chavez that the Downtown 2010 Sector Plan is not allowed, per state and federal law, ...
May 16, 2008
Rocks and accusations fly as church prepares appeal — New Mexico Business Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom O'Connell Source:
New Mexico Business Weekly The black paint on the rock is indistinct, but Church of Scientology of New Mexico representative Sanford Block said it looks like someone tried to spray paint the letter "A." It was tossed in March through an office window at the group's Albuquerque headquarters, cracking a glass-framed portrait of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Block said. No one has claimed responsibility. Block said the "A" would stand for Anonymous, a shadowy Internet organization that in January began holding protests outside Scientology ...
Jan 11, 2008
Proposed Downtown Scientology site on hold — New Mexico Business Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom O'Connell Source:
New Mexico Business Weekly At a conditional use hearing today at the Albuquerque Planning Department, the Church of Scientology of New Mexico and those opposed to its plan to turn a landmark Downtown building into a Scientology center were not allowed to outline their respective arguments.
Zoning Hearing Examiner Roberto Albertorio, who presided over the hearing, denied the church an opportunity to present its case, which its attorney, David Campbell, was prepared to do. Albertorio cited jurisdictional problems, saying that any decision he would make ...
Jan 10, 2008
Scientologists spark downtown fight — KRQE
Jan 4, 2008
Mayor: Scientologists' proposed Downtown site 'problematic' — New Mexico Business Weekly
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