Saturday, March 04, 2000
Guard accessed porn, prosecutors charge
He worked around county's computers
BY DAN HORN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Part of Michael Gooden's job as a security guard was to make sure no one got close to Hamilton County's computer system after work hours.
Instead, prosecutors say, he used those computers to access pornography on the Internet.
Mr. Gooden, 46, was indicted Friday on charges of theft and unauthorized use of county property. If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison.
Prosecutor Mike Allen alleged Mr. Gooden gained access to the computers while working as a supervisor for a firm that is paid by the county to provide security at several offices.
Mr. Gooden, of Corryville, is accused of using the computers after hours on Dec. 16 and Dec. 17 at the county's Department of Human Services.
Mr. Allen said county employees were alerted to Mr. Gooden's activities when they noticed new icons on their computers.
Many of those icons contained sexual terms.
The employees clicked on the icons and discovered that someone had connected the computers to sexually explicit Internet sites.
They reported it to the sheriff, who determined that the only people who had access to the building after hours were cleaning crews and security personnel.
He said many of the computers were in areas that could be entered only with keys used by security officers.
Prosecutors say the charge of unauthorized use of property applies to illegally accessing the computers.
The theft charge was filed because a 16-channel radio supplied to him by the county was not returned.
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