By David RotensteinNKyTribune reporter
Controversy roiled Covington government last fall after the city found that employees in the Public Works Department had been “buddy punching” time clocks. The practice resulted in employees being paid for time they didn’t work. Several employees received written reprimands, two employees resigned, and the department’s director got transferred to another job in city government.
An anonymous source emailed the NKyTribune in January. “There’s a scandal in the Covington Public Works Department involving employees stealing time. They were coming in late or not at all and punching in and out for one another,” the source wrote.
The NKyTribune reached out to city officials and submitted an Open Records Act request for documents related to the allegations. Our reporting confirmed the information in the email…