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albuquerque • albuquerque journal • anna crook • church of scientology of new mexico • church of spiritual technology (cst) (dba, l. ron hubbard library) • criminon • david s. campbell • fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • front groups • gizmo building @ 410 central avenue sw albuquerque nm united states • jeff proctor • john w. brennan • joy rita westrum • koat albuquerque • krqe • new mexico • new mexico business weekly • public funding • purification rundown ("purif") • real estate • rick pendery • sanford "sandy" block • second chance (related, criminon) • threat of legal action, lawsuit • tom o'connell
Reference materials Gizmo building @ 410 Central Avenue SW Albuquerque NM United States
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Mar 20, 2009
Records: Second Chance owes $672K: city, state, IRS among unpaid — Albuquerque Journal
More: forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Source: Albuquerque Journal
When Second Chance officials hastily vacated the old West Side jail in January, they left more than an empty building and a lot of unanswered questions, according to city and county court filings. Second Chance owes more than $600,000 in tax liens, according to records in the Bernalillo County Assessor's Office. About $400,000 is due to the IRS, and more than $200,000 to the state. Second Chance also owes the city of Albuquerque more than $17,000 in unpaid utility bills and ...
Jan 25, 2009
Scientology base denied by officials — Albuquerque Journal
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Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal Journal Staff Writer The Second Chance drug rehab program was pitched to lawmakers and the judiciary as the missing link in a broken system that recycled non-violent drug offenders between jails, prisons and the streets. The past year, it has struggled through money problems and accusations that it is housing ineligible inmates. On Saturday, faced with a city-delivered Jan. 31 deadline to vacate, Second Chance officials moved the last of its inmates out. But throughout the ...
Jan 25, 2009
Second Chance removes last inmates from old jail building — Albuquerque Journal
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Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal Journal Staff Writer Second Chance officials pulled the last of their inmates out of the old West Side jail building Saturday, marking an abrupt end to the drug rehab program's controversial two-plus years there. Fewer than 20 inmates had remained as of the end of the week. The remaining inmates were taken back to the jurisdictions from which they had been sentenced, including Grant and Sierra counties. Even after a Journal photographer had taken pictures of ...
Jan 10, 2009
Judges differ on Second Chance — Albuquerque Journal
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Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
By Jeff Proctor Journal Staff Writer As controversy has swirled around the Second Chance secure drug rehabilitation center over the types of inmates it is allowed to house, the center's officials have maintained that the decision has always been up to individual judges. But it appears at least some of the judges who have sentenced people to Second Chance were told different things about what sort of inmates the program was geared toward. Second Chance President Joy Westrum has refused interview ...
Jan 3, 2009
Inmates pulled from Second Chance — Albuquerque Journal
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Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
By Jeff Proctor Journal Staff Writer During the past week, county officials from around the state have been removing their inmates from the controversial Second Chance Center, which the city of Albuquerque plans to kick out of the old West Side jail building at the end of the month. It is unclear how many inmates have been moved out of the center, which city officials have ordered out of the old jail by Jan. 31. The center has violated its lease ...
Jan 1, 2009
Rehab center tries to garner support / Letters sent to state legislators — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Source: Albuquerque Journal
Joy Westrum, president of the soon-to-be evicted Second Chance rehabilitation program, is trying to drum up legislative support to save her program. On Wednesday, Westrum sent out an e-mail to several state senators and representatives asking them to "encourage the mayor and the city of Albuquerque to do everything possible to resolve any legitimate concerns regarding the lease with Second Chance" for the old West Side jail building. It is unclear which or how many legislators received the e-mail. Westrum said ...
Dec 27, 2008
Mayor evicts Second Chance: Center violated its lease, city says — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): 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 Journal
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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
Type: Press
Source: 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
Type: TV
Source: 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 ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 10, 2008
Scientologists spark downtown fight — KRQE
Jan 4, 2008
Mayor: Scientologists' proposed Downtown site 'problematic' — New Mexico Business Weekly
Dec 27, 2007
Church Of Scientology Wants Downtown Location — KOAT Albuquerque
Dec 21, 2007
Scientologists eye a move to Downtown — New Mexico Business Weekly
Sep 20, 2007
Scientology Moves In Downtown — alibi
Type: Press
Author(s): Marisa Demarco
Source: alibi
The night clubs, shops and lunch spots of downtown Albuquerque are about to get a new neighbor. The Church of Scientology is in the process of purchasing the Gizmo's building at 410 Central SE near Fourth Street, says Gabriel Rivera, a redevelopment planner with City Planning. "From what I've heard, in other places and other cities, [Scientologists] usually locate in the Downtown areas," Rivera says. Local Scientologists confirmed the deal. Plans for the church are extensive, says Beth Akiyama, director of ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 21, 2007
Second Chance seeks state boost — KRQE
Sep 3, 2006
Drug offender center met with skepticism — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor, Scott Sandlin
Source: Albuquerque Journal
New Mexico is about to become the first state to try a new approach in using longterm treatment in a lockup for chronic drug offenders. Officials hope the Second Chance Center, which opens this week in the old West Side jail, is the answer to a broken system that cycles drug offenders through courts and jails. Instead of sentencing nonviolent drug offenders to prison, judges will have the option of sentencing some to Second Chance. Inmates will spend eight hours a ...
Apr 18, 2006
Cruise says he was joking about eating placenta — KOAT Albuquerque
Type: TV
Source: KOAT Albuquerque
NEW YORK – For those of you who took Tom Cruise seriously when he said he was going to eat Katie Holmes' placenta, there's been a clarification. He was joking. Cruise told Diane Sawyer he was only kidding when he said in GQ magazine that he was going to eat the placenta and umbilical cord right after Holmes gave birth because they're "very nutritious." But several days later, there are stories on the Internet taking him seriously. Several reports about the ...
Aug 17, 2000
Group threatens legal battle against Battlefield Earth — KOAT Albuquerque
Type: Press
Source: KOAT Albuquerque
FactNet, a group battling Scientology, warned Thursday that "lawsuits may soon be flying" over MGM's upcoming release of Battlefield Earth, based on a sci-fi novel by Scientology's late founder L. Ron Hubbard and starring the group's most outspoken celebrity, John Travolta. In a statement, FactNet charged that Scientology "has placed subliminal messages in the BattleField Earth film master to surreptitiously recruit new members from the movie audience," that it secretly financed the film, that it will use the film to recruit ...
Jan 23, 1994
Church seeks world conquest, defector says — Albuquerque Journal
Jan 23, 1994
Mountain of mystery / A Scientology sect's underground N.M. archive is an enigma to some neighbors — Albuquerque Journal
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Tom Sharpe
Source: Albuquerque Journal
TREMENTINA — High in the headwaters of the Rio Trementina, a reclusive sect of the Church of Scientology has established what is described as an archive to preserve for a millennium the words of its founder. In January 1984, the California-based Church of Spiritual Technology — one of the parent church's dozens of spinoffs during its 26-year legal battle with the federal government over tax exemptions — began buying the first of a dozen tracts of land some 50 miles east ...
Jun 11, 1971
Scientology growing despite brushes with FDA — Albuquerque Journal
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