DeKalb morgue manager Jody DeWeese suspended over photo
A DeKalb County morgue employee has been suspended without pay for five days over a picture taken inside the facility.
WSB-TV reports that Forensic Services Manager Jody DeWeese took a photograph of a colleague posing on a metal table with a toe tag as part of a photography class.
County spokesman Burke Brennan said recreational photograph is banned in the facility. He said DeWeese was suspended for five days as punishment.
Lab technician Jody Benson, who posed for the photo, was suspended for three days and resigned.
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