PINELLAS, Fla. — Two Pinellas County Public Works employees are no longer with the county after an inspector general’s investigation found evidence of unapproved overtime and discrepancies between reported work hours and available records.
The investigation began with an anonymous tip to the Pinellas County Inspector General’s Office about high overtime earnings by a Public Works operations manager between January and May 2025, according to Assistant Inspector General Darcy Eckert.
“The overtime we looked into and we saw, ‘Yep, he’s got a significant amount of overtime,’” Eckert said. “We spoke with the director of the department and we knew that they would’ve had to have approved that overtime and they had not, so then we knew that there was at least something there.”…