Harassment contributed to numerous employees leaving the Roads and Solid Waste departments. Those that were nearing full retirement eligibility -reportedly remained in their positions as long as they could, while seeking medical treatment and prescribed medication to help them cope with the toxic working conditions. Human Resources received formal complaints documenting these conditions. Heather installed additional security cameras at both facilities without approval by the IT department, reportedly for the purpose of monitoring entrances and hallways. However, employees subsequently received calls on their office and cell phones referencing activities that appeared to have been observed moments earlier through the camera system. These observations included work-related conversations taking place among employees. After concerns were brought to the attention of Human Resources, the Information Technology department inspected the camera placements established by the installation company. During this review, it was determined that some cameras were directed toward employees’ desks rather than being limited to entrances and hallways. IT subsequently adjusted the camera angles to change their fields of view.
Publishers Notes: Heather Lankford, under the direction of the county executive spent tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money to monitor these cameras and I can confirm what the commenter above is saying.
Heather Lankford would actually monitor county cell phone as well and ask employees what they were discussing, hence why my Wife and many others purchased their own personal cell phones where Heather and the executive couldn’t monitor personal phones.
Folks, this is how paranoid these people are. They have to go.
People love power, it makes them feel big and important.
Small minds / Big egoes
Cory Huston is another surveillance junkie. Not only can she see who walks on the sidewalk downtown from her office, but she has her desk positioned so she can see who walks in/out the front doors at the GOB. She watches the camera for comings and goings and can tell to the minute when people clock in/out-and she reports variances of those she doesn’t care for or like-to their department heads. She has so little to do, apparently, that she times bathroom breaks of employees at the GOB, then reports to their Dept Heads that they either took too long or are taking too many bathroom breaks. She of all people should know (from working in HR) that there are confidential medical reasons why someone would frequently need extra relief breaks or would cause them to take longer than a normal healthy person. My family member down there has Crohn’s disease and the stress of knowing they’re being watched and timed during bathroom breaks is severely aggravating their disease.
She also follows people in county vehicles to see where they are going. Her Grammar is that of a modern day Deliverance movie.
Joe, will you be doing an article on Cory as well? I’ve heard she has Jessica, from the dump, spying on work crews from Parks and Roads, monitoring their activities from a county vehicle then reporting back to mama Cory.
This is very true. Any opportunity for her to sh!t on anyone else.
All I have to say about that is she has to have a real boring day.
I know for a fact that some asst. directors at the Civic Center sit back and watch the maintenance dept. That’s all they do. The cameras at the Civic Center were installed for security purposes not to watch maintenance or the stage dept or event staff. But that’s what they do watch the employees .
if the directors at the civic center are watching the maintenance staff there isn’t much to see. AND VICE VERSA