Metro says city billed when security guards weren't on duty
Source: BY AMANDA N. MAYNORD, Nashville City Paper (TN), January 8, 2008
For three months last year the building that houses the Davidson County Election Commission was not guarded on Saturdays, but the city was being billed anyway according to Metro officials.
.......... Wackenhut Corp., which has provided security through a subcontractor for the building since May 20, 2007, as well as several other Metro buildings billed the city under a long-term contract the company has to provide security to Metro government buildings. The subcontractor, Specialized Security Consultants, Inc. and Wackenhut have come under fire in connection with A Dec. 23 break-in at the Election Commission that resulted in the theft of two laptop computers containing the Social Security numbers of 337,000 registered Davidson County voters.