Street stripped of ex-Commissioner Sammie Sias’ name
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Federal convict and former Augusta Commissioner Sammie Sias will no longer have a street named in his honor.
The Augusta Commission on Tuesday voted to rename Sammie Sias Way to Jamestown Lane, effective immediately.
The vote was 9-1, with Commissioner Bobby Williams as the sole “no” vote.
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Sias was accused by a former employee of sexual misconduct, pocketing $10,000 of SPLOST funds, and mistreating children at the Jamestown Community Center – a center he was been long criticized for managing while serving as a commissioner.
Sias was found guilty in July 2022 after a four-day trial of destroying records in a federal investigation and then lying about it to federal investigators researching the case.
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