{"id":257428,"date":"2025-09-27T00:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257428\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T00:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:51:13","slug":"investigation-into-hiring-process-complaints-at-jha-prompts-policy-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257428\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into hiring process complaints at JHA prompts policy changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 After the city of Jacksonville\u2019s Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigated complaints about hiring and title changes at the Jacksonville Housing Authority (JHA), the agency agreed to strengthen its internal controls to prevent future issues, according to a report from the OIG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JHA is a large public housing authority serving thousands of residents in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The OIG investigation focused on claims that JHA leaders, primarily Mamie Davis and Roslyn Mixon Phillips, misused their positions to hire an unqualified person for an accountant job and falsified their titles to get access to federal systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the report, the OIG found procedural problems but no clear evidence of criminal falsification or an intentional cover-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The OIG found that JHA did not follow its own hiring policy for the Accountant III hire because the employee was hired without the usual posting, screening, or clear documentation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">As a result, JHA committed to implementing streamlined hiring procedures and training to prevent similar issues and to strengthen its internal controls.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 After the city of Jacksonville\u2019s Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigated complaints about hiring and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,49632,49633,135418,60610,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-257428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-housing-authority","13":"tag-jha","14":"tag-office-of-inspector-general","15":"tag-oig","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115273523838551550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}