HUNTSVILLE, AL
A probation officer employed by the city of Huntsville is now on administrative leave. A city official said the probation officer will stay on leave pending an internal investigation. The official would not tell us what that investigation involves. However, a source close to the incident said the investigation involves what probation officer Debbie Byrd posted on social media.
We obtained a picture of what Byrd posted a week ago, which has since been removed.
It reads (sic)…”this is for all my court, officer, and attorney friends. I ran a criminal history on someone and it pulled this up. This was from Fayetteville, TN. Guess the person entering the info had a little too much alchahol and didn’t have posetion of a good computer.”
Byrd points out typos a clerk entered, misspelling ‘alcohol’ and ‘possession.’ In the post, she mentions removing personal information, but left a tracking number. To some, typos may not be a big deal to post, but it’s where the information came from that potentially makes it a big deal.