Miguel Gutierrez Jr.
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Bómbita was terminated from the state’s top cybersecurity post in a phone call from the governor’s office Sept. 23; his last day is Friday. He had been on the job less than a year but repeatedly found himself at odds, he said, with officials at the Office of Emergency Services. That agency oversees the one Bómbita ran, the Cybersecurity Integration Center, through its Homeland Security division.
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