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City Worker Sent Sexually Explicit Emails On The Job, Watchdog Reports

By Heather Cherone | January 19, 2017 6:12am
 A city worker sent more than 50 sexually explicit emails from a city computer during the workday, the city's watchdog announced Wednesday.
A city worker sent more than 50 sexually explicit emails from a city computer during the workday, the city's watchdog announced Wednesday.
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CHICAGO — A city worker sent more than 50 sexually explicit emails during the workday from a city computer over three months, the city's watchdog announced Wednesday.

But the Department of Planning and Development employee — who was not identified in Inspector General Joe Ferguson's quarterly report released Wednesday — will not be fired, the report said.

While city officials initially moved to fire the employee, that punishment was changed to a 90-day suspension without pay after the employee filed a response to the charges. The union representing the employee has requested an arbitration hearing regarding the suspension, and that is scheduled to take place this spring.

In addition, the employee used city resources to work a second job, the report said.

For more than a decade, the employee used a city email account for the outside job, including while on the clock for the city, the report said.

Even after getting a private email address, the employee sent and received more than 170 emails from a city account related to the second job between May 2015 and January 2016. In addition, the employee failed to disclose the income earned from the second job on statements of financial interest filed with city officials.

In a separate matter, the employee used the department's letterhead in a matter unrelated to any official duties.

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