Further investigation by the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department into their rogue social media account found that it wasn’t a hacker on the account: just a former employee using the wrong account to make personal statements.
The department plans to delete the old profile and start fresh after a former employee who still had access to the account tweeted several anti-LGBTQ things in reply to a three-year-old post by an actress who had called on Hallmark to be more inclusive.
He had apparently thought he was on his personal account, tweeting instead from an account that had been dormant since May and the retirement of a public information officer.
Erika Hrynyk, current public information officer for St. Clair’s Sheriff Department, said that both she and Sheriff Mat King do not condone or support the statements made via the account, with the sheriff making clear to the Times Herald that the statements “are not reflective or indicative of the way the sheriff office operates or treats individuals.”
