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Resident alleges she was falsely named in altered-email referral; city administrator says SLED contacted staff
Summary
Pam Winters told the Pickens City Council she was wrongly identified in a referral involving altered emails; the city's administrator said no internal referral to SLED was made but acknowledged two South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) officers interviewed staff and reviewed FOIA materials.
Pam Winters told the Pickens City Council on April 13 that an anonymous package delivered to City Hall on Dec. 16 contained altered emails and that she was wrongly identified in an ensuing law-enforcement referral.
"I did not receive that email. I did not alter that email. I did not share that email with anyone," Winters said during the public-comment period, adding that she had been named "in a referral to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division" and later cleared in that agency's investigation.
City Administrator (speaker 8) addressed the room later in the administrator's report, saying the city did not make an…
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