Thursday, October 10, 2019

St. Johns County Sheriff Internal Affairs Manager LT. JAY LAWING, JR. Was Suspended For Workplace Pornography Viewing



Did controversial St. Johns County, Florida Sheriff DAVID SHOAR show poor judgment in his choice of a Deputy to lead the Internal Affairs Division?

In 2008, St. Johns County Sheriff's Deputy Sgt. JAY LAWING, JR. was suspended for five days without pay for viewing adult female pornography on his workplace laptop.  Deputy JAY LAWING is now a Lieutenant, manager of Internal Affairs for the St. Johns County Sheriff's Department.  He has taught classes on crime prevention and internet security.

Deputy Sgt. JAY LAWING, JR. was disciplined July 7, 2008 for pornography and bad judgment by Sheriff DAVID SHOAR as a result of an internal affairs complaint by women co-workers who saw LAWING viewing the pornography.

SGT. LAWING's workplace laptop computer had some 120 images of naked women, some having sex, viewed from March 18 to June 11, 2008.

The Internal Affairs file does not reveal whether the computer system was compromised by computer viruses as a result of his viewing the 120 pornographic images found on the computer hard drive.

Sheriff DAVID SHOAR's hostile working environment is the subject of an upcoming workers compensation case trial involving former Sgt. Catherine Patrick, formerly known as Catherine Payne, who was the Sheriff's media liaison and suffered post traumatic stress disorder as a result of documented sexual harassment in the horribly hostile working environment created, encouraged and continued by Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, who legally changed his name from "HOAR" in 1994.

SHERIFF DAVID SHOAR's website currently states:

The Internal Affairs Unit is managed by Lieutenant Jay Lawing. The unit is responsible for investigating all serious complaints filed against an employee or related to actions taken by the Agency. Feedback from the community, both positive and negative, is monitored by this section. If you have a comment, please complete the Citizen Comment Form and submit it to our office.




1 comment:

Patty O'Connell said...

FDLE asked SJSO Deputy Jeremy Banks Badge # 3550 about Michelle O'Connell's Computer.
Jeremy Banks a SJSO Deputy on Night Shift as a SJSO Patrol Deputy watched porn on Michelle O'Connell's laptop without her permission. He admitted to FDLE Agent Rusty Rodgers in a interview....