It took less than fifteen minutes for the Knox County Board to decide that a document that took a year to produce will be made public.

The Knox County Board in a special meeting Tuesday night voted unanimously to release the results of the special audit of the finances of the Sheriffs Department and State's Attorney's Offices from December of 2003, to the end of November of 2006. The documents state, however, that an audit was not done; rather, "applying agreed-upon procedures."

Knox County Board Chairman Allen Pickrel tells WGIL there were plenty of misconceptions about how the documents could be released, and if they should have just been released automatically. "I was hearing from the public, 'Just release it. Just release the audits'," Pickrel said. "There was a process. It wasn't that easy. These audits were done for the Knox County Board itself, and for the law enforcement agencies. So, to release them, it had to go through the Knox County Board, and I had the okay by the law enforcement agencies to release them."

Allegations of financial mismanagement were leveled against former State's Attorney, now Judge Paul Mangieri, and former Sheriff Jim Thompson, as allegations of sexual harassment were made against current State's Attorney John Pepmeyer.