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July 28, 2012

Candidate profiles: Evans says change needed in court

Jamie Jones jamiejones@daltoncitizen.com

— Randy Evans thinks there needs to be a change in one of Whitfield County’s magistrate judge posts.

“If someone’s been there for so many years they don’t do the job that they did at the beginning. Longevity says a lot, but do you really perform your job as well as when you first began?” said Evans, a retired Dalton Police officer.

The magistrate position Evans seeks is currently held by Sidney Baxter, who has been a justice of the peace and magistrate judge for almost 44 years. The position is nonpartisan and will be decided during Tuesday’s election.

Evans said he wouldn’t make any immediate changes to the court because he “doesn’t know how it’s running per se, I just know that all of the equipment there technology-wise is not being used. Mr. Baxter is not using technology.”

Evans did not specify which programs he believes Baxter isn’t using, but said technology in general “might have passed him (Baxter) by.”

“I’ve been into his office and he doesn’t even have a computer at his desk,” Evans said. “I feel like that is a very important part of the job, knowing how to use a computer. Modern technology has taken over and I feel that it might have passed him by.”

A native of Whitfield County, Evans, 56, retired from the Dalton Police Department in 2009 after 30 years. He was both a patrol officer and detective. After retiring from the police department, Evans worked with Citi Security and Investigative Services as a fraud investigator, targeting credit card fraud, forgery and identity theft.

Evans is a graduate of Valley Point High School, and he earned bachelor’s degrees in criminal justice and business administration from Brenau University. He is married to Tiera Lyons-Evans, and they have two children, Blake and Sadie. They are members of First Baptist Church of Dalton, where Randy is a deacon.

Magistrate Court handles civil claims of $15,000 or less, some misdemeanor criminal offenses, county ordinance violations and some deposit account fraud cases. It also handles preliminary hearings and summonses, and judges can issue arrest and search warrants.

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