Shawano County Jail Administrator Steve Borroughs is no longer with the county after what the county says was his decision Tuesday to retire suddenly.
“It was his decision and it became a mutual agreement,” County Administrative Coordinator Brent Miller said.
Miller said Borroughs informed him Tuesday of his retirement, which was effective immediately. Borroughs had not yet submitted a retirement letter as of Wednesday afternoon.
“We’re working on that,” Miller said. “Him and I; so that it’s worded correctly.”
Supervisor Bert Huntington, who chairs the Public Safety Committee that oversees the sheriff’s department and jail, referred any questions about the Borroughs matter to Miller and Corporation Counsel Tony Kordus.
Borroughs’ departure comes in the midst of an Administrative Committee investigation into the sheriff’s department and jail, but Miller and Kordus declined to say whether there was any connection between those investigations and Borroughs’ sudden retirement.
The Administrative Committee hired attorney Dan Borowski in May to investigate $1,000 in jail bond money that went missing in 2013. The investigation ultimately expanded to include the actions of several sheriff’s department employees at a Republican Party picnic in July.
After then-candidate and now Sheriff Adam Bieber presented his platform, three deputies, who have not been named publicly, questioned Bieber in a way that some witnesses likened to harassment.
“The investigations are still ongoing,” Kordus said.
As for Borroughs’ departure, he said, “Given that it’s a personnel matter, I can’t comment.”
Miller said he couldn’t discuss the investigations because they’re still going on and could result in “other, different action,” being taken, including actions that could involve personnel issues.
The Public Safety Committee met jointly with the Administrative Committee in closed session Friday to discuss, among other things, “ongoing personnel-related investigations.”
Upon returning to open session, the Public Safety Committee voted to “support the action of the Administrative Committee looking at the results of investigations at the jail.”
Kordus, who was at that meeting, said he couldn’t be any more specific about what that action was.
“Personnel issues are subject to protection, which was why that was vague,” he said.
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