Commissioners Demanding An Apology

Old news that shows this board must be recalled.

From the Tribune and Georgian

Board chastises Feller for tawdry link on blog

By Mark R. Dorolek

The Camden County Board of Commissioners asked, and received, an apology from Commissioner Sandy Feller about sexually explicit material that was six mouse clicks away from his Web site.The board asked Feller to apologize for the material, inform people that the site was not the official site of the board of commissioners and monitor his site more closely for content, after someone contacted Commissioner Steve Berry about her son finding pornography through Feller’s site.
Berry said a parent contacted him a little more than a week ago about her son doing a report on local politics and accessing Feller’s Web site, where Feller posts his feelings on political happenings going on in the county.Berry said the woman was upset that her son could access pornography through the county’s official site, and he later found out it was Feller’s site.He then showed the crowd gathered at Tuesday’s meeting how through Feller’s profile someone could access the pornography site by going through three pages of profiles and clicking on a link to another person's Web site.“This parent was really upset about it and wanted to know what we were going to do about it, and I really didn’t have a lot of answers to that question,” said Berry.

Commissioner E.B. Herrin described the pornographic site as “gruesome,” and said Feller needed to be held liable.David L. Rainer, chairman of the board of commissioners, said he did not see the site, but that Feller should apologize.“That is all I ask, but you should be ashamed, though,” Rainer added.Commissioner Preston Rhodes also did not see the offensive site and said it was a reasonable request for Feller.Berry said he decided to put an item on the agenda to censure Feller for inappropriate behavior because talking to Feller is a waste of time since he does not listen. Berry said he decided against the censure and asked Feller to do the other tasks.“Unfortunately, I learned very early, and I think the other commissioners have, too, is that the problem with Mr. Feller is that it is pretty much a waste of time because he tells you in a New York minute what he thinks and where to go,” Berry said.Berry said he instructed Executive Secretary Diana Smith to tell Feller if he had any questions about the situation to tell him it was about his Web site and to have Feller call Berry so he could tell Feller what the problem was.Berry said he did not receive a call, while Feller said Smith never told him to call Berry.Smith said she did give Feller the message and told him to call Berry.Feller said he knew nothing of the inappropriate site until the weekend and as soon as he found out he called for technical support and it took a couple of days to get the link off his site. He said he also contacted the FBI about the situation and hired other computer service people to look into it.“How this got there? I don’t know,” said Feller.He said he did not even see the obscene site until a Jacksonville, Fla., television crew showed up at his office on Monday and walked him through the links to the site. He also said the reporter told him Berry had given them the information about the site, which Berry denied.“They just showed up at my office exactly like they did at yours,” Berry said.Feller said Berry was trying to make a media event of the situation and if he was really concerned about the children of Camden County Berry would have called Feller instead of going through other channels.“The plain fact of the matter is, if he wants to make a political football out of it, God bless him. That is his prerogative,” said Feller, adding, “As far as this incident is concerned, I am profoundly sorry.”He said there was no doubt that he would also monitor his site more closely in the future.Herrin said he did not inform Feller about the inappropriate site because he did not know about it until recently and Rainer said he did not view the content of the site so he did not know exactly what was there.Rhodes said he did not inform Feller because it was not his responsibility to monitor the site and Feller should have known about the links.

Why are they not demanding an apology from Ms. Sears?

It's too late to for an apology. I will except nothing less than her resigning from the board and being fired from the Sheriff's Office.

COUNTY MEETING TONIGHT WEAR YOUR BEST YOU NEVER KNOW WHO WILL SHOW UP.