DeKalb oversight board member removed
The effort to hire an independent watchdog over DeKalb County's government is getting more contentious.
State Sen. Gloria Butler recently rescinded her appointment of Harmel Codi to DeKalb's Audit Oversight Committee, a move Codi says is political meddling that threatens the panel's independence.
The board is responsible for hiring an auditor who will be responsible for finding fraud, reducing inefficiencies and exposing waste.
Butler says Codi, an outspoken critic of DeKalb’s government, was using the committee to pursue her own agenda.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
