Interim Director Kenny Lancaster
/ SC DPS
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The last complaint made against the interim director of South Carolina's public safety agency was made more than a decade before the attorney general's office launched a review into new allegations against him.
Documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press show a former trooper accused now-Col. Kenny Lancaster in 1997 of unfairly disciplining him. At the time, Lancaster was a sergeant.
Public Safety spokesman Sid Gaulden says the rarity of complaints against Lancaster speaks for itself.
The 1997 complaint investigated by Public Safety ended when the fired trooper agreed to a settlement.
Lancaster is now the subject of a complaint filed by a woman who alleges the two had an affair and that Lancaster then drummed her trooper husband off the force out of jealous retaliation.
Lancaster has declined comment.
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