SISD’s Task Force Commander Resigns
EL PASO — ABC 7 has learned a controversial hire made by Socorro ISD superintendent Sylvia Atkinson has resigned her position.
Ida Trevino had served as the district’s first Task Force Commander, and her husband, Guillermo Salinas, worked under herauthority as a district police officer.
In September, Socorro trustee Craig Patton said he was “uncomfortable” with a husband and wife working in the same department.
Now Trevino has left her job, and she said the reason for leaving was that she was being harrassed by Patton because she is Hispanic.
“If he’s capable of trying to embarrass me, then he’s capable of anything. I feel like if I resigned then maybe he’d leave me alone,” she said.
As for Trevino’s claims of discrimination, Patton says theyarewithout merit. “I have nothing against Ms. Trevino. I don’t even know her. The issue that I have was in the manner in which she was hired by our school district,” he said.
Trevino worked with Atkinson at the superintendent’s former district in South Texas, and denies either she or her husband were given any special treatment.
