State employees in Nebraska may be discovering...

Editor's note: ...that the era of taxpayer-funded joyrides, liquor store detours, and clocked-in side trips has abruptly collided with an inconvenient new invention called GPS tracking. According to reports from the Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts, local Nebraska television outlets, Fox News Digital, and The Wall Street Journal, Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley has used GPS tracking data to investigate alleged misuse of taxpayer-funded vehicles by state employees, uncovering personal errands, liquor store visits, and discrepancies between timesheets and vehicle activity. This goes equally well for all state employees in all fifty states. Nebraska in case anyone needs a reminder, is a red state. Now, about those roughly 2.4 million civilian federal employees...imagine the fraud, waste and abuse at that level? The people claiming to own everything need to be put in their place and contracted to manage systems for the public good, with standard job oversight, and they need to be fired when they abuse their job description. Corporate and intergenerational wealth has taken on obscene proportions.
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Nebraska State Auditor uses GPS tracking to reveal apparent misuse of government vehicle

By Sara Badura | February 28, 2026

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley released a report Friday that details the misuse of a government vehicle by the program manager of the state’s Commercial Dog and Cat Inspection Program.

The program is administered by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture. The program manager’s responsibilities include inspection of animal control facilities, pet shops, boarding kennels, commercial dog and cat breeders and other related animal facilities.

The manager is also responsible for border checks, which involve patrolling roads and highways near bordering states. According to Foley, the manager was assigned a state-owned 2017 Ford F-150 truck for the purposes of conducting his responsibilities.

Using data from a GPS system inside the truck, Foley’s audit report shows that of the 101 workdays when the state vehicle was used over a 13-month period — July 1, 2024, through July 31, 2025 — 47 road trips were made while improperly using the vehicle.

Total mileage, both legitimate and improper, were 15,552 over the 13 months reviewed.

For reasons not known to the audit team, another 39 days were identified when the vehicle was simply turned on and off but did not change location.

Of the 47 road trips with some alleged improper usage, timesheets completed by the program manager noted the vehicle in use for approximately 150 hours. However, the GPS data shows the vehicle in use for 100 additional hours, Foley’s office said.

Reported instances of misuse include using it to travel to restaurants, stores, hotels and a liquor store, the report shows.

Because the program manager did not have a state procurement card, the auditors obtained his personal bank records and correlated debit card purchases to GPS-confirmed locations of the vehicle.