The Seminole County State attorney says tax collector Joel Greenberg did not break the law when he followed and confronted a driver about speeding.It was early December when a woman called the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and said a man was impersonating a police officer. She told deputies that a man followed her in a dark SUV, with a white strobe light activated in the windshield, according to an incident report. Conflicted about whether she should stop or not, the woman kept going before pulling into her subdivision and stopping before she got home. She said shortly after she stopped, a man stopped behind her, got out of his car with a badge around his neck and scolded her for speeding, the report said. She told deputies she thought at the time he was an officer, documents show.After the incident was reported, deputies identified the man who confronted her as Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg. The badge he was wearing during the incident was a tax collector badge. The case was sent to the state attorney for review. The state attorney wrote in a letter that Greenberg was being given the benefit of the doubt that his intentions were pure. No laws were broken, the state attorney wrote."What's happening adjacent to my house is a serious situation. As any responsible parent and homeowner, I took action,” Greenberg said. The state attorney’s letter did call the flashing light inappropriate and said that wearing the badge while trying to slow traffic was a bad decision. The letter said the badge only applies to tax collection duties, and has nothing to do with speed control.

The Seminole County State attorney says tax collector Joel Greenberg did not break the law when he followed and confronted a driver about speeding.

It was early December when a woman called the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and said a man was impersonating a police officer.

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She told deputies that a man followed her in a dark SUV, with a white strobe light activated in the windshield, according to an incident report.

Conflicted about whether she should stop or not, the woman kept going before pulling into her subdivision and stopping before she got home.

She said shortly after she stopped, a man stopped behind her, got out of his car with a badge around his neck and scolded her for speeding, the report said.

She told deputies she thought at the time he was an officer, documents show.

After the incident was reported, deputies identified the man who confronted her as Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg. The badge he was wearing during the incident was a tax collector badge.

The case was sent to the state attorney for review.

The state attorney wrote in a letter that Greenberg was being given the benefit of the doubt that his intentions were pure. No laws were broken, the state attorney wrote.

"What's happening adjacent to my house is a serious situation. As any responsible parent and homeowner, I took action,” Greenberg said.

The state attorney’s letter did call the flashing light inappropriate and said that wearing the badge while trying to slow traffic was a bad decision.

The letter said the badge only applies to tax collection duties, and has nothing to do with speed control.