Georgia

November 12, 2008: A self-proclaimed government ethics watchdog Wednesday called on Georgia leaders to fire Transportation Commissioner Gena Evans for inappropriate relationships with co-workers and former subordinates when she worked in other state agencies.

George Anderson, executive director of the Ethics in Government Group, said he had filed or planned to file a barrage of complaints against Evans with the ethics officer of the state Department of Transportation, the Office of the State Inspector General and the state Department of Law. Read the full article here.

DeKalb loses track of traffic tickets
November 8, 2008: DeKalb County Recorders Court — one of the busiest traffic courts in the state — has lost track of hundreds of thousands of citations, costing the county and the state possibly tens of millions of dollars in uncollected fines, according to internal court e-mails.

The breakdown also let people ignore citations and not face punishment — and no one has been looking for them.

The e-mails, obtained through the Georgia Open Records Act, show that a two-year communications failure in the court’s computer systems has caused citations to sit unresolved in case databases. It’s the electronic equivalent of being stuffed in a closet and forgotten. Read the full article here.

BoE argues about openness
November 4, 2008: How much internal school system information may a board of education member see before he has to ask permission from the full board?

Does a school board member have to seek advance permission from the superintendent before he visits a school in the system?

Those questions have led to a split vote on a school system policy change and acrimonious words between opposing school board members since an Oct. 20 meeting. Read the full article here.

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