Halbert sent a letter to the Shelby County Commission saying she was extremely offended by the backlash directed towards her.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert sent a letter to the Shelby County Commission saying more than $6 million per year in county revenue went unreported since she took office in 2018, one of many issues she said she inherited when she took office.
"You've seen the pictures, you've seen the lines, our facilities were not and still aren't up to code, and I've been begging [the Commission] to help fix this for years," Halbert told ABC24. "It is clear that I wasn't given the resources I needed to do my job."
In her letter, Halbert invoked the Federal Whistleblower Protection Act, which protects government employees against punishment for reporting alleged money issued in government offices to the public.
This comes in response to the County Commission's scheduled vote of no confidence against her, which is set to take place August 8 after the commission delayed the vote, originally scheduled to take place in July.
Halbert also claimed a mailroom that reports to Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris sent her office an email in May which said county postage had been stopped due to a lack of funds, but that such a lack of funds would be impossible.
This, she said, has had her office's hands tied when it comes to clearing the backlog of new license plates.
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