Inspector General: City Employee Downloaded 4,000 Explicit Images On Work Computer

A Baltimore City employee was fired after the city's inspector general found he downloaded more than 4,000 sexually explicit images onto his work computer while he was at the office.

In a public synopsis of the report released Monday, Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming wrote that investigators worked with the Baltimore City Office of Information and Technology to substantiate the allegation. They found that the images were downloaded over the course of less than a month.

The letter identified neither the employee nor the department they worked for, but said the employee admitted to downloading the images and that he knew it was a violation of city policy to do so.

In addition to terminating him, his management referred his behavior to the city law department, which may seek reimbursement of wages earned while downloading the explicit material, Cumming wrote.