Notarizations ordered at the direction of the employer. Comments? Thoughts?
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"But most of the 1,016 affidavits in question — signed by the officers and Elder in 2015 (sheriff's officers must sign a new document with the entrance of a new sheriff) — were notarized in April 2016 without the notaries witnessing the signatures. . . .
Though he and another notary resisted orders to falsify the documents, Administrator Larry Borland ordered them to do so anyway, as quickly as possible, and notify Chief of Staff Janet Huffor when they were completed and ready to be filed with the Clerk and Recorder's Office, he says. . .
"It was just stamp, sign, stamp, sign, stamp, sign," he says in an interview. "It was complete BS." . . .
Dietz also says neither he nor Dave Mejia, another notary in the department who notarized the documents, entered those notarial acts in a journal as required by law. Noting he and Mejia "were directed to get them done ASAP," Dietz says, "The journals were not utilized for the oaths in question as they required signatures by the signer being notarized."
https://www.csindy.com/TheWire/archives/2017/12/07/ex-officer-says-he-witnessed-order-to-notarize-deputy-oaths |
