Citing a lack

of evidence, Fayette County Magistrate Joe Tinsley has ruled there is

not enough evidence to arrest Peachtree City Mayor Steve Brown for theft

of city services.

Brown was accused

children and keep his personal schedule. The hearing took just over an

hour Friday morning.

Brown and Lenox

shook hands civilly after the hearing was adjourned as Lenox said: "If

you won't attack my credibility, I won't attack yours."

Brown did not

testify during the hearing; he was not required to do so. He was represented

In announcing

his ruling, Tinsley said the evidence at the hearing didn't show Brown's

conduct had any "willfulness or desire." He added that the city's

ethics complaint process would be a better way to resolve the matter.

Brown previously

cited himself for allowing a city secretary to take his daughter to golf

practice while he attended a meeting in Fayetteville. He has also offered

to pay the city back for the employee's time, but has not yet done so,

according to the testimony of City Manager Jim Basinger.

Thursday night,

the city council initiated the ethics board process for Brown's self-complaint

Of Lenox's

overture to him after the meeting, Brown said, "That's all right.

It's a start."

Lenox said

he agreed with Tinsley that Brown did not intend to violate the law.

"I wanted

the public to know," Lenox said, saying he was satisfied with the

judicial process.

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