A former Holmes Beach commissioner’s ethics complaint about the police chief was shot down.
The Florida Commission on Ethics found no probable cause to believe former Commissioner Jayne Christenson’s claims that Chief Bill Tokajer violated state statutes by using and/or disclosing information not available to the general public, according to a Feb. 1 report.
Ethics complaints are handled by the commission on a confidential basis until the suspected violator files a request to make it public, or until the case has been concluded.
Without probable cause, the complaint against Tokajer was dismissed and the case file became public record.
Christenson’s complaint against Tokajer began, according to her, with her complaints about the police department budget.
But it is centered around a Nov. 20, 2021, police ride-along she took with Officer Michael Van Horn in which the then-commissioner offered her driver’s license to Van Horn to demonstrate the Driver and Vehicle Information Database, otherwise known as DAVID.
But Christenson’s information in DAVID identified her address as her Bradenton property, and while Van Horn made no remark, Christenson protested, saying the Bradenton address was not her driver’s license address.
Christenson had faced questions from the public surrounding her residency since she first campaigned for a commission seat in 2020, based on the use of her Holmes Beach property as a vacation rental, which she also claimed as her residence.
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