Alpharetta’s deputy director of public safety resigned Friday, three days after the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office cleared him in connection with an invasion of privacy investigation.
Wes McCall, who lives in Cumming and also serves on Forsyth County’s school board, stepped down from his role as the public safety department’s No. 2 man Friday morning, said James Drinkard, Alpharetta’s assistant city administrator.
McCall was suspended with pay earlier this month after the city was notified of a criminal complaint against him and several members of his homeowner’s association.
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Two people filed complaints against McCall and other residents of the Pleasant Manor Estates subdivision alleging the HOA members took photos from their social media accounts, cropped them and altered them into different images, a sheriff’s office spokesman said.
The photos were then reportedly shared to a group text where neighbors commented on them, according to the sheriff’s office report. The complaint named eight members of the HOA, including McCall’s wife.
Homeowner Ralph Richards told Channel 2 Action News he filed the complaint after learning that images of himself were being circulated in his neighborhood.
“There were about six images that had been created by stealing pictures of me off my Facebook page and pasting those, morphing those into lewd photographic images,” Richards said. “He’s a law enforcement officer. He should have put a stop to this the second it started. But instead, he was part of the group and went along with this.”
On Tuesday, the sheriff’s office announced no criminal charges would be filed against McCall or his neighbors after investigators determined that no laws were broken.
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Alpharetta officials conducted their own investigation after being notified of the criminal complaint by the Forsyth sheriff’s office, Drinkard said.
That investigation came to a close Friday when McCall resigned.
“This morning, Wes McCall resigned his position, ending his employment with the city of Alpharetta,” Drinkard said in a written statement. “As there is no longer an employment relationship, the City has ceased its internal investigation.”
He said no determinations or findings had been reached. He also said McCall’s resignation was voluntary.
The former deputy director worked for more than two decades for the city. McCall began his career with the Alpharetta Fire Department in 1999 and was appointed to the role of deputy public safety director in late 2014. He was elected to Forsyth County’s school board last year.
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