Charges Unlikely In City Email Spying Investigation

After nearly a year of investigations, the resignation of a city manager and firing of an Information Technology director, no criminal charges are expected to be filed in Sarasota's email spying and deleting case.
"They're taking no criminal action," said Sylint's cyber security expert John Jorgensen about state law enforcement.
However, it doesn't mean there wasn't any wrongdoing—it just might not be worth it to file charges. After meeting with the state attorney's office and Florida Department of Law Enforcement, it appeared that the damages threshold and time and money spent to prosecute proved to be too much, Jorgensen said Monday during the City Commission meeting.
"One must understand in today's fiscal and financial climate that law enforcement has to pick and choose the cases they go after," Jorgensen said.
He'll leave it

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