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Flint’s administrator of public safety resigned this morning after Free Press reporter John Wisely raised questions about how he could work there while also working as the head of security for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
Barnett Jones, a longtime lawman in southeast Michigan, was earning $273,750 at the two jobs, which are almost 70 miles apart. He had been working both since May.
But after the Free Press made inquiries this week, Jones met today with Flint City Administrator Michael Brown and Emergency Financial Manager Edward Kurtz to offer his resignation, Brown said.
“We didn’t know that he was working at Detroit water and sewer,” Brown told Wisely this morning. “We figured that out yesterday when you called. That’s the long and the short of it.”
