Cobb County Superior Court Clerk Connie Taylor was indicted Thursday by a grand jury on four felony charges—two counts of destroying public records and two counts of violating her oath of office. The indictment follows a Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) probe into her handling of a 2022 open records request related to passport fee collections.
Taylor turned herself in to the Cobb County Jail around 7 a.m. Friday. Jail records show she was processed, had her mugshot taken, and was released after about 80 minutes on a signature bond—meaning she did not have to post cash bail. She paid a $20 bond fee. Judge William “Beau” McClain approved the bond at the recommendation of the Georgia Attorney General’s Office.
According to the indictment, Taylor allegedly instructed her accounting manager, Maya Curry, to delete a digital folder containing passport service fee records, as well as an email related to those revenues, after receiving media inquiries in 2022. The scrutiny followed news reports examining Taylor’s collection of passport processing fees—a practice also used by her predecessor. Georgia law allows Superior Court clerks to personally collect a $35 processing fee per passport. Over her first two years in office, Taylor collected more than $425,000 in such fees, in addition to her $170,000 annual county salary…