cross posted from tellpeoria.com Newsroom
Peoria City Clerk Mary Haynes used her official city email address to forward a racially insensitive email to a Florida official.
The Costal Star, an online only community-based news organization, reported that a Highland Beach town clerk was suspended for sending “sexually oriented or defamatory” emails, one referring to President Obama with “the N-word.” This email particular did not involve Haynes, but the article states:
Another e-mail, about a “Texas girl’’ who shoots a Mexican and an Arab at a bar because her state has “so many illegal aliens,’’ was sent to [Town Clerk Beverly] Brown by Mary Haynes, city clerk of Peoria, Ill. Brown and Haynes won Quill awards from the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, which certified them both as Master Clerks.
IIMC members sign a Code of Ethics promising that “the affairs of my office shall be above reproach’’ and “to so conduct my public and private life as to be an example to my fellow citizens.’’
In an email, reporter Steve Plunkett says that the email from MHaynes@ci.peoria.il.us account to Brown’s official bbrown@ci.highland-beach.fl.us account at 10:08 a.m. May 21. It was forwarded on by Brown three minutes later. It was sent to Haynes by sheila_spalding@hotmail.com, who Plunkett did not try to identify.
Haynes apologized for the incident:
Peoria City Clerk Mary Haynes used her official city email address to forward a racially insensitive email to a Florida official.The Costal Star, an online only community-based news organization, reported that a Highland Beach town clerk was suspended for sending “sexually oriented or defamatory” emails, one referring to President Obama with “the N-word.” This email particular did not involve Haynes, but the article states:
Another e-mail, about a “Texas girl’’ who shoots a Mexican and an Arab at a bar because her state has “so many illegal aliens,’’ was sent to [Town Clerk Beverly] Brown by Mary Haynes, city clerk of Peoria, Ill. Brown and Haynes won Quill awards from the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, which certified them both as Master Clerks.
IIMC members sign a Code of Ethics promising that “the affairs of my office shall be above reproach’’ and “to so conduct my public and private life as to be an example to my fellow citizens.’’
In an email, reporter Steve Plunkett says that the email from MHaynes@ci.peoria.il.us account to Brown’s official bbrown@ci.highland-beach.fl.us account at 10:08 a.m. May 21. It was forwarded on by Brown three minutes later. It was sent to Haynes by sheila_spalding@hotmail.com, who Plunkett did not try to identify.
Haynes apologized for the incident:
“I don’t recall the specific incident, but evidently at some point in time I did forward what seemed like a joke, but may have been offensive to some. As I said, I regret offending anyone and have taken measures to ask people sending private email to utilize my home email account.”
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