Politics & Government

Emergency Management Leader Under Investigation

Lanita Lloyd has been put on paid leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation.

The deputy director of Cobb’s emergency management agency has been put on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation.

Lanita Lloyd was appointed to the position in 2004, but has been with the county since 2003. Reached on her cellphone Wednesday afternoon, Lloyd said she had been told what the county was looking into but couldn’t comment on it.

“I’m not allowed to talk about it until the investigation is over,” she said.

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And the county wouldn’t say what it was all about either. No one is filling in for Lloyd while she is out, said Robert Quigley, director of communications for the county. There is no need, he said, because County Manager David Hankerson is director of the department.

Quigley said he wasn’t sure how long the investigation would take.

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“Certainly we want to be thorough in our review,” he said.

Lloyd spent 19 years working for the state, including time as a planner in the Georgia Office of Homeland Security, before joining Cobb County. While there she has coordinated the county’s response and recovery efforts following two floods, two tornados and Hurricane Katrina when about 2,000 evacuees sought shelter in Cobb, according to the county website.

Lloyd is also the executive board president of the Emergency Management Association of Georgia, according to the organization's website.

Lloyd’s husband, Mickey, was the county’s public safety director before resigning last July following a county investigation about discrepancies in his military record.

Together the couple has five children and two grandchildren. Lloyd graduated from Shorter College with a bachelor's degree in business administration and from Jacksonville State with a master’s degree in emergency management.


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