2 City Workers Tracked with GPS Units

ATLANTA - Atlanta city supervisors called in the police department to place tracking devices on government vehicles. The tracking devices were placed on the vehicles after managers had suspicion that code compliance officers were traveling all over the city on the taxpayer dime, without covering their assigned route.

Two workers were fired for falsifying claims they were working when an investigation showed they were not.

City officials said a supervisor felt something wasn't right about the amount of work the two were doing, despite what their paperwork was claiming, so she asked for an investigation.

Police officers placed GPS tracking devices on the workers' city vehicles and tracked their movements for a month and a half.

The employees turned in paperwork claiming they were in certain places at certain times doing work but the GPS evidence proved otherwise.

Mayor Kasim Reed said he hoped the incident sent a strong message to all city workers that they had better be doing what the taxpayers are paying them to do.