Within a few days of our publishing his article on July 19, he was fired by Sabah, the Turkish newspaper for which Mr. Baydar was, ironically enough, serving as ombudsman.
Julie Kirchner, former FAIR executive director, is serving as ombudsman at USCIS.
After his retirement in 1988, he again served as ombudsman until 1992.
And it tracks with the agency's own recent restructuring — back in May, USCIS hired Julie Kircher, the former executive director of the radial anti-immigration group the Federation for American Immigration Reform, to serve as ombudsman and work with immigrants hoping to obtain citizenship.
She and her staff made structural changes, creating two new staff positions to offer independent review of such cases, and to serve as ombudsmen for attorneys who might have concerns.
The office, which is charged with reporting on local issues to the county executive's office and serving as an ombudsman for grievances filed against the county, has 20 full-time staff members.
Patrick Pexton, who served as the ombudsman of the Washington Post from March 2011 to March 2013 (at which point the Post decided it wasn't going to have an ombudsman anymore), has some advice for the paper's new owner, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and has taken to the pages of the Washington City Paper to offer it.
The public advocate serves as an ombudsman for city government, monitoring the responsiveness of city agencies and fielding complaints from residents.
According to the job description, parent coordinators are being paid $30,000 to $39,000 a year to work with community organizations that provide services to schools and serve "as an ombudsman for parent and school concerns" on issues like school policies and facilities.
Typically, the principal investigator (PI) of a project serves as an ombudsman.
The public advocate's major duties now include serving as the city's ombudsman and as an ex officio member of the City Council.
