Callahan placed Boggess on leave last week for multiple reasons, including an issue involving the mayor. Boggess said he was told by Callahan that he could resign by March 1 or be terminated.
City officials, however, have no such authority over Humphries. Carlisle Law Director David Chicarelli informed City Council on Wednesday that it could not take disciplinary action against Humphries regardless of whether he viewed or downloaded pornographic materials on a city-owned computer. Humphries is an elected official, and therefore not subject to the city’s personnel policy.
But Humphries has refused to accept responsibility for the 200-plus images of young males engaged in sexual activity found on his computer.
A report by the Miami Valley Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory in Dayton, where the laptop was examined, noted there were two primary accounts on the computer: one for former Mayor Jerry Ellender and the other for Humphries.
According to Carlisle police, Humphries used Ellender’s computer account until the city upgraded its servers in April 2009, at which point an account was set up for Humphries, who defeated Ellender in a mayoral election in late 2007.
The lab report states that 224 sexually explicit images were found on applications run under Ellender’s account and were created on Dec. 25 and 26 of 2007. Ellender said he turned in the laptop after his last meeting in office on Dec. 11, 2007. A city employee confirmed Thursday that Ellender turned in his keys on that date and other city property by the end of that week.
Humphries was sworn in as mayor on Dec. 26, 2007.
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