Good evening.

I want to welcome everybody to our July 16th, 2026 Board of Ethics meeting.

Unfortunately, our chair, Mr.

Dallas is out of town, and our vice chair is possibly stuck in traffic, so we're going to go ahead and try to get started.

Our agenda today will begin with a call to order and also just a brief introduction.

I know that Chair Dallas likes everyone to kind of introduce themselves and go around, so I'll start with uh to my right with Mr.

Florence and let him introduce ourselves, and we'll just go around.

Yes, uh George Ferrance, member of the board.

And I'm Tom Clements, member of the board and substitute today.

Scott Matthews, board secretary.

Mike Adow board member.

Lauren Florence, board member.

Kathy Asimel Tentramenial board member.

I'm Hakeem Hill, your general counsel.

Good evening, Elisa Murphy, Ethics Officer.

Kristen Rogers, Ethics Administrator.

I apologize, Ms.

Rogers.

I should have started with you.

I I just looked I just looked too close to me.

Um next would um I'd entertain a motion to adopt our agenda for this evening.

Motion to adopt.

Second.

All those in favor say aye or raise your hand.

Thank you.

Um we have some administrative items to deal with.

Uh first would be approval of the June 18th, 2026 minutes from our meeting last month.

Could I get a motion for approval of those minutes?

So moved.

Thank you.

A second.

Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

The minutes from June are approved.

And next we would go to report of committees.

I'm not sure that we have any reports, but uh our committees are in are broken up into three categories.

One is personnel, the other is budget, and then the last one is oversight.

I don't show that we have any reports to render, but does anyone have anything to thank you?

Um and that will take us to the ethics officers monthly report.

Uh Officer Murphy.

Thank you.

Uh Board Member Clements.

With regards to the new employees trained.

So far, it's 668 employees, and as you know, we train every other Monday in person.

With regards to the ethics blast, there's one that went out, and I will show that.

And I'm scheduled or uh tempting to schedule on their dot their dockets or not their schedules rather, a BLC uh staff training, purchasing and contracting, and human services.

Uh pending cases as of today is eight.

There are eight, rather, and uh two of them came in within the last week.

Regarding hotline reports, there are three.

There's one regarding a warrant issue, a school issue, and alleged clocking in and out, and two of the three I have uh or Kristen Rogers has contacted the proper officials regarding that.

There is zero open records request.

This is the ethics blast, and particularly it's involving jurisdiction, which is our power and authority to hear and decide the cases.

And I pointed this out because we were receiving so many cases that did not deal with our jurisdiction.

Uh and later on, I will talk more about uh us having to have personal as well as subject matter jurisdiction.

Uh but specifically training issues, uh, your conflict with the manager, supervisor, or team member, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, civil rights claims, usually human resources has exclusive jurisdiction over that trash pickup, utility issues.

I indicated please contact your provider, crimes, please contact law enforcement and order, a prosecutor, district attorney, school issues.

We do not have jurisdiction over the school issues.

The individual needs to contact their school district and court cases.

Are there any questions?

Board members, any questions?

Thank you, Officer Murphy.

Thank you.

Just to back up for a minute on the reports from the committees.

Uh, and hopefully he'll have more to uh discuss or more to talk about that the following month.

Just wanted to add that.

And that will take us to our preliminary cases.

Um the first case before us is Antoinette Holloway versus TC Harrison.

Officer Murphy.

Thank you, board member Clemens.

First, I wanted to go into the uh particular rules.

In order for a claim to come before the Ethics Board of Ethics, rather, there has to be both subject matter and personal jurisdiction.

The subject matter involves conflicts of interest, abuse of public office, inappropriate gifts and gratuities, misuse of county property, and accounting and audit irregularities, personal deals with that the individual should be an employee of the CAB County or a public official of the CAB County, and we do not have jurisdiction over state officials or public state or public employees of the federal side.

Employees of other municipalities, we do not have jurisdiction, for instance, if uh something is unincorporated or incorporated, it depends on the location and of course uh the court system.

There are uh four primary reasons why the ethics officer may recommend dismissal.

One, the board of ethics does not have jurisdiction.

The board has previously considered and dismissed similar allegations, and the two uh below are primarily on the docket for today, uh meaning the cases as well as uh one the first one, the jurisdiction issue.

So the evidence does not support the allegations or the complaint expresses conclusions or opinions without any specific actionable items or allegations.

The other rule that applies is ethics rule 4.5.

The complainant shall have 10 business days from the date of notice to correct and refile the complaint directly with the ethics administrator if the complainant fails to refile and correct the complaint within 10, and that's 10 business days, the complaint shall shall be dismissed, and I indicate a shell because it's not discretionary of the board.

And so the I believe one of the last rules that I'll go over is uh the ethics rule 4.3 to be considered, any written complaint shall contain the name and address of the person, the name and address of the party against whom the complaint is filed, a clear and concise statement of the facts, a general reference to the provisions of the DECAP ethics code, and further information that might support the allegations, for instance, if there are police reports or court documents, and the sworn verification, and normally that's done electronically, or if they someone files uh the handwritten portion or the type portion, as long as they have their full signature or their first and last name that would qualify.

The first case again is under case number 2025-9, Holloway versus Harrison.

Harrison is a lieutenant in the internal affairs.

Uh the complaint is based upon the following.

According to the complainant, the official code of uh Georgia annotated section 19-7-5.

Georgia's mandatory reporting law.

When an officer has reasonable cause to believe that a child is abused, neglected, or endangered, they must report it to family and children's services or children's uh protective services.

Uh, this is in the complainant's own words.

And so what uh the rationale and the recommendation, the complainant Holloway was given 10 business days to correct and refile the complaint, however, she failed to correct and refile it.

Additionally, the police properly responded and completed a wellness check, and a the 15 and a half year old uh child had been living with the father for approximately five years.

Additionally, I checked the Fulton County case.

There has not been additional filings regarding custody of uh this particular child or a missing person's report.

Also regarding this case, it originated out of Fulton County domestic relations, and I also provided you which is behind the complaint, the actual police report.

And it appears to be beyond our subject matter jurisdiction.

I did not find that TC Harrison, the internal affairs lieutenant, committed any particular ethics violation.

Um again, there was a uh the complaint that failed to correct and file the complaint.

So I am asking for dismissal, Mr.

Clemens.

Um, could you just explain um to the board that even though that this particular complaint was not cured in time and that subject to dismissal, could you explain that the complaint, I'm assuming could be refiled at some later date within a certain period of time if they did comply with those things?

Well, it's a little bit um more deeper than that.

We have to have both personal and subject matter jurisdiction.

We don't have subject matter juvenile jurisdiction over uh a juvenile regarding custody issues, or if she's being um mistreated, the governing authority for that is the Department of Family and Children's Services.

Right.

Um but in other situations where you would have the jurisdiction, the person could refile the complaint, correct?

That's not correct.

It's not correct, they could not refile it.

That's not correct if it was decided on the merits.

Okay.

However, there is a provision that indicates that uh if you all have decided the case and there is another leg to it, and it's not a surprise or something new regarding the facts, then the statute precludes the person from filing similar complaints.

Thank you that makes sense.

And could you just uh ask uh tell us again what you what you're recommending in the case as I interrupted?

Dismissal.

Okay.

Um any questions from the board?

I I just have one question.

So where then would this case where would it be appropriate for it to be directed to?

Uh child child and family services?

That's correct.

Okay.

They're they're the governing authority over this matter.

And with and and I know you probably um didn't have time to read the police report, but um they did do a wellness check and they did not find anything.

Now the complainant Holloway is correct.

The statute that she quoted actually is of course a state statute, and we don't have jurisdiction over that as well, but um the officers are mandated reporters, and so if they have if they would have found something, they will would have been required to report that to children's services and not the ethics office.

Thank you.

Any more questions from the board?

Yeah, I have a quick one.

I I just briefly went over uh the report made by Ms.

Holloway, and I did not see anything about any real danger to the child.

She's apparently just complaining of a custody issue.

Is that correct?

And that's that's correct.

I did um pull up the actual custody and the divorce decree, the child support order, and um she actually has joint custody with her former husband.

Okay, thank you.

And um, if you note on the complaint, um there was the concern that she was calling the police quite a bit, and they referred her to the mobile crisis unit.

Any more questions?

I would entertain a motion.

If anyone has one.

Are there any other questions?

Motion to dismiss.

Okay.

Second.

Anyone?

Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Raise your hand.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

Case will be dismissed.

The next next case on our calendar is anonymous versus Tyler Woods.

This is case number 2025-10.

The complaint expressed that these are the facts he sh uh he or she indicated that this person posts videos of himself nude having sex with other men in public.

And on an ex and possibly only fans.

The complaint had 10 days to correct and cure the complaint.

There was fictitious address, phone number.

I did look up the sites.

However, Mr.

Woods, and I also contact the human resources.

Mr.

Woods is not an employee of the CAB County.

I am asking for dismissal.

Okay.

Any questions from the board?

Just the confirmation, he's never been an employee.

He wasn't an employee at this time either.

They have no record of him being an employee.

And I um contacted the acting human resource director.

And I have the ability to look first.

I investigated it first.

Any more questions?

Okay.

Entertain a motion.

Motion to approve the recommendation.

We have a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Raise your hand.

Aye.

Case will be dismissed.

The next case is Nancy Scott versus Tamara Dillard.

This particular case originally started in 2022.

In the complaint, Ms.

Scott lists the 2022 incidents.

We don't have jurisdiction over items that occurred more than 40 four years.

Those incidents occurred in January of 2022.

But she continued with a current incident with the same person.

More recently, she indicated that January 5, 2026, she overheard Tamara Dillard, who is a supervisor in Parks and Recreation and Cultural Affairs chastising an employee.

And I talked to her on the phone and I asked her for more information, and I sent a 10-day notice that we would need more information than her just overhearing a conversation between a manager or a supervisor and the subordinate, and she said she had three witnesses.

However, she said that the witnesses will not come forward.

But what I did was I deferred her to Janet Exics and Human Resources that deals with employee relations, and I also referred her to Fabian Niles, who's in charge of training.

And this has been on the docket before.

Yeah.

And so based upon that, I'm asking for dismissal for failure to refile and correct the complaint within 10 business days.

But I do know that Janet Exics is in communication because they're copying me on the emails.

So she is getting help with this matter, and she seemed to understand that we don't deal with training issues unless it rises to the level of an ethics violation, but I always try to refer the people to the proper governing authority.

Thank you.

Any questions from the board?

No.

There being no questions, I'd entertain a motion.

the emails so she is getting um help with this matter and she seemed to understand um that we don't deal with training issues unless it rises to the level of an ethics violation but I always try to refer the people to the proper governing authority thank you um any questions from the board no uh there being no questions I'd entertain a motion second all those in favor say aye aye aye case dismissed thank you we're now to the part of our um agenda that deals with public comments are there any public comments tonight okay um our next agenda would be comments from the board of ethics um do any of the board of ethics members have any comments uh I do not have any comments nor do I I don't have any comments but I want to say thank you guys for showing up tonight and I apologize for my tardiness other than that no comment no comment no comments there being no comments uh that will take us to executive session to discuss pending litigation and personnel issues uh I would entertain a motion to convene on executive session second all those in favor say aye aye aye all right we'll move into executive session thank you good evening uh we're back from executive session and I'd entertain a motion to adjourn the executive session motion to adjourn session thank you and if all those in favor raise your hand say aye aye motion to adjourn approved and let's see now we move to the motion to approve the executive session affidavit motion to approve it affidavit second right all those in favor say aye aye aye and that will uh conclude our meeting for this evening uh our next uh regular board schedule meeting is august twentieth twenty twenty six hope to see everyone there and thank every thank you all for coming that'll do it thank you