According to yesterday’s article at the Billings Gazette, APF spokeswoman Becky Shay (who used to work for the Gazette) ‘explained’ why the APF website disappeared for several hours yesterday.
The Web site for American Police Force, the California company working on a contract to fill Hardin’s empty jail, is temporarily down.
Becky Shay, APF’s public relations director, said the Web site, www.americanpolicegroup.com, crashed because it has received more job applications than the server can handle. APF has received at least 2,000 applications, many of which are for jobs at the 464-bed jail in Hardin.
“The surge came after the announcement for Hardin,” she said. “Our Web site is getting 20,000 to 30,000 hits a day, and a lot of those are job applications.”
via Job applicants overwhelm American Police Force Web site.
Somehow, this explanation seems unlikely. Generally, an overwhelmed server simply reports a ‘server busy’ error, or the site simply fails to load. The APF site, however, reverted back to its ‘parked’ position at GoDaddy, as if all content had been removed.
Shay left her job with the Gazette to join the American Police Group as spokeswoman, promising ‘transparency’. However, she refuses to reveal the source of the group’s funding. I’m betting she doesn’t know. Sadly, if this all goes south, Shay may be knocking on the Gazette’s door with a smile and an apology.
For Ms. Shay, an investigative reporter, to be duped so easily or to willingly participate in such corruption should squash any possibility of getting her job back. I can’t believe she didn’t even check out their address!?
And she sold her soul for just $60,000 per year!? Surely, the price of her professional and moral integrity is higher than that! Right??? Did she get a half million dollar signing bonus?
ABC News recently showed a report about border officials taking money to look the other way – http://bit.ly/gmUHK which leads to my question:
If our press and other government officials can be bought for so little, what hope do we have of protecting ourselves against those (domestic and foreign) groups and individuals who would terrorize us?