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Investigation of Tift employees on-going

• Investigators are still gathering information after the arrest of two Tift County employees last week, authorities said.

J.D. Sumner

TIFTON — State investigators say that they are continuing with an investigation that included the arrest of two employees of the Tift County government last week and that additional charges may be pending.

Tift County’s head of information technology Jeff Flynt and a subordinate, Braxton Driskell, were arrested May 23 after agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation discovered they had used the county’s computer system to view information they had no right to, according to arrest warrants.

Thursday, Special-Agent-In-Charge Mike Lewis said that the investigation stems from actions that allegedly occurred away from the county government’s central headquarters downtown, but said that the investigation would likely spill into the county building.

According to the warrant information, Flynt was charged with using a computer or computer network for the purposes of examining a memo concerning interdepartmental lack of communication contained on the Tift County Computer System.

Driskell is accused of examining salary information and other personal data on the Tift County Computer system.

Lewis said that Flynt was taken to the Turner County Jail while Driskell was housed at the Tift County Jail.

Flynt is a former deputy with the Tift County Sheriff’s Office.

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