What is the status of Clerk of Court investigation?
Lazaro Aleman
ECB Publishing, Inc.
The alleged financial misdeeds of Clerk of Court Kirk Reams and the ensuing investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) will not lie dormant.
The issue arose once again at the Jefferson County Commission meeting on Thursday evening, Sept. 7, raised by Commissioners Stephen Walker and Eugene Hall.
Walker asked to have put on the agenda for discussion an item identified as “forensic audit next steps.” The reference was to the forensic audit of the clerk’s records that the commission authorized in 2022 and that found instances of alleged misuse of county funds.
The board referred the audit findings to the FDLE for investigati