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State highway director flagged for offensive comments
Blackwood completed behavioral courses after complaints filed by staff
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Sexually inappropriate comments made by the director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety prompted a workplace investigation last spring that just recently became public. Harris Blackwood, a former Times reporter and Gainesville native who was appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal to head the GOHS, was required to complete a behavioral training course after the investigation found he had made several offensive comments, all sexual in nature, to his staff and employees.