OCSE Employee Derides Vendor

In July 2013, OCSE had to purchase official badges for two of its employees that are Special Police Officers, that actually function as process servers,  after one of the OCSE employees was caught wearing a North Little Rock Police Department Badge and using the rank/title of lieutenant while performing his official duties.  This same process server left a note when serving notice of a hearing that if the person being served did not call him back a warrant would be issued for their arrest (see blog post entitled "OCSE Process Server Uses Bogus Badge").

In documents obtained from OCSE about the badges, an email was provided in which Lanita Bateman writes about dealing with two employees of Cruse Uniform & Supply, who she mentions both have support cases, and she offers assistance to them in regard to their child support cases to get badges purchased ( a violation of DFA code of ethics).  Bateman then makes derogatory and inflammatory comments about their perceived intelligence “Combined IQ of the two might be in the low 50’s”.

Bateman , who by the way does not possess any type of certification or license to perform psychological examinations nor does she have a license to practice law in the State of Arkansas, all but calls two employees of Cruse Uniform & Supply retarded.

Bateman exhibits her unabashed and derogatory bias towards the mentally retarded and her frustration in dealing with vendors of her agency that she feels are beneath her intelligence level.  This type of behavior by a public employee is unacceptable and unprofessional.

document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rdWRoTERJZFltdTQ/edit?usp=sharing

"Doctor" Lanita Bateman, "Esq."