from the Mt. Juliet News website:
City employees hear back on Sorey FOI requests
By: LAURIE EVERETT / Managing Editor
Posted: Friday, May 1, 2009 10:00 am
April 29, 2009 – The City of Mt. Juliet employees and officials who filed Freedom of Information requests to learn more about Chris Sorey’s background checks into them have heard back, according [...]
The Chronicle of Mt. Juliet has it as their lead website story:
‘Smyrna Nine’ hire attorney, demand answers
The Mt. Juliet News has it featured prominently as well:
City employees back from trip to Smyrna to ask about Sorey investigation; filed open records requests
Seems that City Manager Randy Robertson and six Mt. Juliet employees paid a visit to [...]
lead story in both The Chronicle and The Mt. Juliet News.
Mayor Linda Elam, Vice-Mayor Will Sellers, City Manager Randy Robertson, and six city of Mt. Juliet employees have filed an ethics complaint against County Commissioner Chris Sorey.
The Complaint was sent to Wilson County Mayor Robert Dedman, who indicated that he had turned it over to [...]
Both the Tennessean and the Mt. Juliet News have reported that the Mt. Juliet City Commission met in a closed “executive session” last Monday night. The Mt. Juliet News reported that the issue of County Commissioner Chris Sorey and his unauthorized background checks of city officials and employees was discussed.
Such a meeting violates state law.
The [...]
Headline from the Mt. Juliet News, Dec 10, 2008.
Bernie Ash (district 23) and Gary Keith (district 17) both confirmed that they had been contacted by the Smyrna Airport Authority and told they were on the list of people whose information was improperly accessed.
Mt. Juliet Mayor Linda Elam called on Sorey to resign, apologize, and pay [...]
Story in the Tennessean:
MT. JULIET — Mayor Linda Elam on Monday night asked that Wilson County Commissioner Chris Sorey resign from office because a TBI audit showed he had used a state Web site to run unauthorized background checks on her and other city workers and elected officials.
Vice Mayor Will Sellers, whose records were also [...]
SMYRNA, Tenn. – A Smyrna Airport police officer recently misused the state’s Criminal Justice Portal, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Chris Sorey said he regrets misusing the system.
“I am very sorry that it’s caused any embarrassment or anything for anybody,” Sorey told NewsChannel 5.
Later in the story, Sorey explains that “he and his family [...]
From a story in today’s Tennessean “Wilson County Commissioner Chris Sorey used a state Web site to run unauthorized background checks on citizens, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says.”
“Helm would not identify those whose backgrounds were checked, but Mt. Juliet City Manager Randy Robertson has told his employees that the portal was used to run [...]
