On April 9, 2008--Bill Isbell and William Wells III created a Tellico Plains Police website: A short time later, it was announced in the local media as, "the launch of the first city police website to go online in Monroe county."
As it turns out, what was supposed to be a city government website--was registered to Bill Isbell, at his personal P.O. Box in Coker Creek TN....Bill Isbell was the appointed chief of police at the time. http://who.is/whois/tellicoplainspolice.org/
This lack of oversight by the previous mayor--may be just one of many issues that the new mayor will have to address. This unusual arrangement could have been used to influence public opinion, coerce city government (by what they posted or NOT posted), or by violating the federal civil rights of suspects that had not yet been brought to trial--to benefit Bill Isbell, in the 2010 Monroe County Sheriff's election.
The website shows Shutdown/Inactive status since 8/27/2011--a week after a complaint was filed on 8/22/2011.
If you were to ask any municipal city administrator, manager, or mayor--Is your City Police website registered to the Chief of Police?...You would likely get a response of... "You must be joking."
Did former chief of police Isbell appropriate anything else that should have been in the name of the Tellico Plains Police Dept. or the City of Tellico Plains?
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