Cobb Superior Court Clerk Connie Taylor allegedly ordered an employee to illegally delete public records so they could not be given to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, according to a whistleblower complaint sent Thursday to the Board of Commissioners.
The complaint says that when accounting manager Maya Curry refused to follow Taylor’s orders and reported it to her supervisor, Taylor threatened Curry, revoked her access to a work computer and sent her home.
On Thursday, County Manager Jackie McMorris told Curry she had been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation, the letter said.
Taylor did not respond to requests for comment Friday afternoon.
The AJC in October filed a request under the Georgia Open Records Act for documents detailing the clerk’s office’s handling of U.S. passport application fees. Those records revealed that Taylor had pocketed $425,000 in passport processing fees since she took office two years ago, including $84,000 charged for expedited shipping that applicants are told is spent on postage.
Under Georgia law, superior court clerks are allowed to keep certain fees paid by passport applicants as personal compensation. But while Taylor’s predecessor, Republican Rebecca Keaton, shared close to half of the processing fees with the county government, Taylor, a Democrat, kept all of it ― in addition to her $170,000 taxpayer-funded salary.
Taylor offered to repay the $84,000 to the county, and a vote was scheduled Thursday for the...
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