As the Georgia Bureau of Investigation begins a probe of the Cobb Superior Court Clerk’s office, Cobb government officials responded Tuesday to some of the claims made by that office’s accounting manager.
Cobb government issued a release Tuesday afternoon saying that some of the comments made by Maya Curry—who is alleging that Superior Court Clerk Connie Taylor has collected more than $400,000 in passport application fees since taking office in January 2021—contain “misleading information.”
Curry, who was hired to work in the clerk’s office in March, is claiming that Taylor ordered her to destroy records about the passport application fees when The Atlanta Journal-Constitution filed an open records request seeking that information.
Under state law, court clerks are allowed to personally keep such funds. But Rebecca Keaton, Taylor’s predecessor, forwarded some of those monies to the county’s general fund.
And the amount of money Curry alleges Taylor had collected far surpasses her annual salary of around $170,000.
In a letter dated Thursday to Cobb commissioners and other county officials, Curry’s attorney, State Rep. Stacey Evans, wrote that Curry was contacted by Cobb County Manager Jackie McMorris to say that she was being placed on leave pending an investigation and that “adverse action” may be coming her way.
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