ALBANY, Ga. — Dougherty County Attorney Spencer Lee told the Dougherty County Commission after its meeting Monday that he’d filed a complaint against the Georgia Department of Human Services over unpaid fees Dougherty Sheriff Kevin Sproul has billed the agency.
Lee said the county had attempted to settle the matter, which focuses on attempts — successful and unsuccessful — to deliver notices of past-due child support to citizens in the county, but had been unsuccessful in its attempts.
The county attorney said he filed the complaint Monday before the 10 a.m. commission meeting started.
“Sheriff Sproul had billed the Department of Human Services $105,000 for uncollected service fees after his department was sent to deliver notices of delinquent child support,” Lee said. “On some occasions Sheriff Sproul’s department was given a correct address, on others the addresses were insufficient. But just because he was unable to deliver the notice doesn’t mean he didn’t provide the service.
“State law says that the state shall pay an agency delivering such notices $50, and we interpret that to mean that payment must be made each time these services are provided. The state feels they have legal basis for denying these funds, but we respectfully disagree.”
via Albany Herald | County files complaint against state Human Services.
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