Latest Headlines
- Five WaWa Stores In The Works For Escambia County. Here’s The List.
- Scattered Storms Likely Again Today
- Motorcyclist Critical After Jacks Branch Road Crash
- FDOT Plans Traffic Shift Thursday In Century Highway 29 Construction Zone
- Molino Man Charged With Throwing Object, Breaking Windshield Of Passing Car
- North Escambia Athletes Place In USA Volleyball Beach National Championships
- Santa Rosa Sheriff Issues Contractor Fraud Alert After Arrest
- Escambia Man Gets 10 Years On Firearms And Financial Racketeering Charges
- New Name, Same Fish: Largemouth Bass Are Now Florida Bass
- ECUA Considering Water, Sewer And Sanitation Rate Increases
State Attorney Clears Public Records Complaint Against Valentino
April 19, 2014
The State Attorney’s Office has cleared a complaint against Escambia County Commissioner Gene Valentino that contended he did not respond to a public records request in a timely manner.
The public records request was made by Douglas Underhill for emails related to the CMT show “Party Down South”. Valentino said, and provide written documentation from his company’s IT director, that a technical issue with his personal iPad may have caused a problem that led him to answer county business emails from his personal email — a violation of the county’s technology party. That, in turn, led to confusion in providing the records upon Underhill’s original request.
“The failure to provide the records at the time of the original request was inadvertent, we will take no further action regarding this matter,” Chief Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille wrote in a letter to Underhill.
Click here for related documents.
Comments
7 Responses to “State Attorney Clears Public Records Complaint Against Valentino”
I’m sick of the Good ol’boy politics of this county, I will be sure to not vote for any incumbent in the up coming elections, I can only hope the rest of our citizens will do the same.
As molino jim stated…Isn’t it great that Valentino got to allow his “COMPANY IT GUY” to check his Tablet and figure out what happened!! Seriously…what would you expect old Gene’s own IT guy to say…if he wants to keep his job. As I stated…how does the States Attorney ignore “USE THIS EMAIL” and say it was “Inadvertent”???!!! Good Old Boy Politics at it’s BEST!!!
Let us think on this. Gene’s company Director of IT will try to find where the problem is. (he may wish to keep his job) So the answer will be “it’ just one of those things that happen”– end of investigation. I would hope that the county will not be billed for the IT’s time. This is not as bad as the governor of N.J. hiring his own personal lawyer to investigate the so called “bridge gate”. The lawyer billed the state and surprise surprise— he found no wrong doing on the part of the governor.
well its still the good old boys, you didn’t think they were gona find him guilty of anything did you? they need to clean house with all all of them and get some honest people in there
this is no supprise, and we the pay them too….the legal system needs to be fixed, to much good ole boy polictics…..
“Inadvertent”??? There was one email, in the bunch that he was forced to provide to Mr. Underhill that was referring to his Private/Personal Email that clearly stated “USE THIS EMAIL” and continued to advise it was because he received 200+ in his County Email. The can talk “Technical Glitch”, “Inadvertent”, “Confustion” or whatever they want. But so far, nobody has explained the “USE THIS EMAIL”! And YEP, I have the emails and have read them.
He be innocent because he don’t know no better.
That always inspires confidence in elected officials.
David for innocent souls