So, 17 months after local government reformer Lee Johnson prepared a massive report on problems in the Lake County Employee Services Dept., the County Auditor finally issued a 43 page audit report with 62 Findings, and included the responses from the County officials. You can find our initial August 18, 2008 posting about this issue and Lee Johnson's research HERE. You can find our later Sept. 18, 2008 posting on Johnson's research WITH all his reports attached HERE. The link to the recent audit report is further down in this report. Basically, Johnson used public records requests and found all sorts of questionable work practices related to hiring, firing, promotions and demotions in County operations. Based upon my experience as an internal audit manager in several large firms, a professional HR manager would never have condoned such practices. However, some issues could also have been due to political interference, which we will never know. During the lapsed time between Johnson's analysis and the issuance of the audit report: - one employee filed a discrimination lawsuit and settled for $50,000 - the County Manager, Cindy Hall, who originally ignored Johnson's research and tried to bury it, has been fired. - the...
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