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MONTROSE, Michigan – from www.mlive.com – Montrose City Manager Frank Crosby will lose a month of pay after city officials found he had looked at more than 200 porn sites on city computers.
Crosby, 57, is being garnished about a month’s worth of wages as punishment — about $3,500.
Crosby said he used township computers after hours to look at inappropriate websites.
“I feel very ashamed and embarrassed about my past activities,” he said. “I accessed Websites that were inappropriate.”
Montrose resident Robert Arnold said he is comfortable with Crosby staying on the job.
“If he’s doing a good job, he shouldn’t lose his job over something like this,” he said.
Crosby has been the focus of scrutiny for four months for his computer use.
A city investigation concluded that Crosby used the city’s computer in “an inappropriate manner and for his personal use” which violated Personnel Policy and Procedure, according to the report obtained by The Flint Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request. Read the report here.
He initially was fired in January but in February the board rescinded that decision and put him on paid administrative leave. He returned from paid leave on March 1 to begin working on the city budget.
The city investigation found 200 porn sites in his Web browser history.
In response to questions on the report, Crosby acknowledged on Monday that he had looked at porn sites on his computer at City Hall.
Crosby said the sites featured “adult women who were not fully clothed, or not clothed at all,” but stressed that he didn’t visit sites that contained illegal material.
The city council delivered a four-part reprimand last week. They garnished his wages for four weeks — which he can spread out over this year. The council also handed down a year of probation and documented the incident in his personnel file. He also faces quarterly inspections and checks on his computer use.
The city council gave City Attorney Otis Stout permission to investigate the matter in February, following its decision to rescind January’s decision to terminate Crosby for misusing city property.
The investigation took a couple weeks, and he interviewed 18 people including Crosby, the mayor, council members, police and other residents.
“There was a policy in place that he himself had helped to prepare and of which he was aware of and understood,” Stout said in the report. “There is no evidence that he had any training in connection with the Policy for Computer Use, but by all accounts Mr. Crosby should have known better than to use the City computer system for his own personal use or for anything that would be commonly perceived of as being inappropriate.”
Part of the problem was a miscommunication about what he could do with the computer, said Crosby.
“I was told I could have personal use of the computer, and that’s not what it turned out to be,” he said.
It was poor judgment, he said, and he’s grateful to have is job back.
Montrose Mayor Clinton Diffin said that Stout’s investigation was incomplete and he wants the computer turned over to police for more forensics to be done to see exactly what images Crosby looked at.
“It should have been an outside investigation,” he said. “He met with the people involved, but there was no real gathering of any evidence and no forensics done on the computer.”
Diffin said that the snafu not only wasted the city’s time, but cost about $3,000 in legal fees.