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DeKalb County commissioners direct staff to change travel language to one person per hotel room
Summary
Commissioners voted to have county staff update travel-policy language to state one person per hotel room as the default when employees travel on county business; staff will draft amendments for approval and place the change in the travel policy/handbook.
DeKalb County commissioners on Aug. 18 directed county staff to revise the county travel guidance so a single hotel room is the default for employees traveling on county business.
The move came after department heads, the county HR network and county staff raised privacy and harassment concerns about a 2019 county memo that had recommended sharing rooms and carpooling when possible. Dottie, a county staff member who described the memo during the meeting, said, “I had read a memo from a previous group of county commissioners from DeKalb…
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