Candidate Kevin Karnes harms a client and breaks the law doing it!

Editorial

A client of the Clerk of courts talked to Karnes because this person is in the Address Confidentiality Program (FS 741.401-409 and .465) for high lethality risk.  And needed to make sure that their name is confidential because if the attacker knows that an address may be discoverable, the client may be in grave danger. 

The client purchased a new condo to stay safe and because of Kevin Karnes’s inability to follow the law but the client’s name and address appeared for 36 hours in the records.

Now that the client CAN NOT stay at the new condo because their address has been made public.

The client made an in-writing complaint to the State Attorney’s Office and the Florida Commission on Ethics to describe Karnes’ incompetence and negligence in his failure to keep my address protected from public record.

Both were dismissed the issue after an interview with Karnes. The investigators reported to the client that Karnes reported to them that he did, in fact, protect the client’s address “after 36 hours.”

Karnes said these deadly breaches and investigations were “not serious” issues. 

And the client should consider that the risk of death and the same risk to other community members that are supposed to be protected are extremely serious issues.

This was not leaked from anywhere else, as Karnes claims. 

The Property Appraiser and Tax Collector do not get these documents from the Clerk of courts for about 2 weeks. But within a couple of days of filling the documents with the Clerk of courts advertisements had already started appearing in the mailbox from this Clerk of courts leak.

The Client states a letter was placed in their mailbox.  It was a crude and vulgar message.  It was not signed. The threatening part of this was the fact that it was sent to my full name and my new protected address.  The sender should not have the client’s address period.

Karnes is 100% responsible for this mistake. How many more mistakes has Karnes done over the years he has been employed by the Lee County Clerk of courts?

Currently, the Inspector General is investigating the Lee County Clerk of courts, but Karnes refuses to talk about it, he states the matter is confidential pursuant to state statute.

It’s time to take a fresh new look for the Lee County Clerk of courts without Kevin Karnes!