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Resident urges forensic audit after records show $115,000 paid to IT vendor with no written contract
Summary
A Walker County resident told commissioners she found $115,000 paid to a newly registered IT vendor with no written service or confidentiality agreements and asked the board to open an RFP and forensic audit, citing state IT-security standards.
Melissa Hulsey, a resident who said she obtained Walker County bank statements through an open-records request, told the Board of Commissioners that payments to an IT service vendor between July and September 2025 total $115,000 and include a $23,000 check written in September.
"We have no written agreements for this vendor — no service agreement, no confidentiality agreement, no pricing agreement, no reporting requirements," Hulsey said during public comment. She said invoices were vague, the vendor’s website appeared to be a single-page site with…
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