Schlenkert – ever paid?

For quite a while I followed the saga of Bob Schlenkert, a deputy of the McHenry County Sheriff’s Department. Bob fought long and hard to get his job back, and he won. Part of the settlement was that he was to get paid his back pay for the two years or so that he didn’t work.

Bob had wanted to return to work and earn his pay; however, the roadblocks thrown up by Sheriff Nygren were high, and it took time for the case to wind its way through the legal system; as was recently decided in court, Bob was qualified to work.

I haven’t been in contact with Bob, and I certainly wouldn’t ask him how much he got paid for the years he wasn’t allowed to work. That’s his business.

But whether he has gotten paid is the public’s business. And so I have filed a FOIA Request with the Sheriff’s Department for documentation that Bob Schlenkert has been paid.

Has he? If not, why not? Calculating his back pay, benefits, vacation and retirement credits, sick pay allowances during his time off, and his legal fees, if he is recovering those, shouldn’t be all that hard. Probably about an hour of time and a few inches of calculator tape.

I hope the response from the McHenry County Sheriff’s Department is that Bob has been paid, and paid in full.