- December 17, 2025
The state will not pursue charges against former Sgt. Jamie Roster, a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office employee who was accused last year of logging more than $8,000 worth of hours on his time sheets that he did not work.
Last month, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement concluded its investigation into Roster, which yielded insufficient evidence for a case against him. Roster’s men said the accusations were true, said Sheriff Jim Manfre, but upper management said otherwise. After hearing the conflicting stories, the State Attorney’s Office decided not to press charges.
The accusations did, however, spark a change in the manner in which deputies and other employees of the Sheriff’s Office log hours. Currently, employees write their hours on paper time sheets at the end of each two-week pay period. Within 30 to 60 days, the agency will be on an electronic system, which will ask employees to account for their hours worked daily.
“The current process is time-consuming and ripe with potential for inaccuracy,” Manfre said.
In early 2012, the time when the accusations against Roster emerged, he was a supervisor of the K-9 unit in the Sheriff’s Office. He was placed on paid administrative leave while the Sheriff’s Office conducted an internal investigation. In June 2012, Roster was demoted to deputy and returned to road patrol.
The complaints prompted the audit of the agency that determined Roster’s case was not an isolated incident, the Sheriff’s Office announced in December. Roster was accused of collecting more than $8,000 in wages for work he did not do. In an audit by Allen, North & Blue, another deputy was discovered with an excess of 1,032 work hours. A third logged 1,267 extra hours.
When Manfre took office in January, he decided to turn the investigation over to FDLE because the allegations involved criminal activity.
Now that he has the results of the FDLE’s investigation, Manfre is moving forward with switching to electronic time sheets in attempt to avoid such problems in the future.
Roster, whom Manfre said during his campaign he would have fired had the incident emerged under his tenure, is now working as a K-9 deputy.
Manfre said he did not fire Roster because Fleming entered a union agreement in late December to guarantee’s Roster’s position.
However, Manfre said the real problem is relying on people’s memories and written time sheets to generate pay checks, and not on Roster’s case specifically.
“Really, the point is to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Manfre said. “There shouldn’t be any confusion about whether a paycheck matches (an employee’s) hours worked.”
