Forsyth County Commissioner receives warning after ethics panel hearing Complaint said Levent accessed Mills’s emails without her knowledge Forsyth County District 3 Commissioner Todd Levent speaks during an ethics evidentiary hearing Tuesday, March 2. - photo by Kelly Whitmire
After a two-day hearing, members of an ethics panel voted to give Forsyth County District 3 Commissioner Todd Levent a warning in a split, 2-1 decision from panelists Amelia Phillips, Linwood Gunn and Edwin Saginar, who are attorneys from outside of Forsyth County.
In an ethics evidentiary hearing, held on Monday, March 1 and Tuesday, March 2, attorneys delved into whether or not Levent directed a county employee, Carol Balcome, to access emails from District 4 Commissioner Cindy Jones Mills after a complaint was filed in 2020 by District 5 Commissioner Laura Semanson, who served as BOC chairwoman at the time.