A veteran city welfare worker was forced to resign after an ethics probe revealed she accessed several family members’ confidential public-assistance records.
The city’s Conflicts of Interest Board announced Tuesday that Janice Judd agreed to step down after getting slapped with a 30-day suspension valued at $4,700 for tapping into a confidential Human Resources Administration database to see the Medicaid records of her sister, son, grandson and two brothers.
Judd, who had worked for the HRA since 1996, also got an HRA co-worker to re-certify her daughter and brother’s Medicaid benefits even though they didn’t provide the proper paperwork.
She also admitted to sending dozens of personal messages from her work e-mail account, according to the board.
Judd admitted she used her Welfare Management System “ identification and password on nine dates to view the confidential public assistance records of my daughter, and, at my request, an HRA co-worker recertified my daughter’s Medicaid benefits on three dates,” the board reported.
