Party: Independent<\/p>\n
Professional background: Roy was City Treasurer of Oceanside from 2018-2024. He said he is \u201cthe only candidate who has earned California Treasury Certification from the California Municipal Treasurers Association,\u201d and was a supporting and active member of the California Municipal Treasurers Association.\u201d Roy was also a Service Director for United Airlines for 27 years.<\/p>\n
During his time as Oceanside City Treasurer, Roy was the subject of an internal investigation <\/a>over accusations made by a city employee in the Treasury department. As reported by our Public Matters partner Voice of San Diego, the investigation sustained three of the accusations: That Roy had improperly discussed the accusing employee\u2019s job performance at a public meeting, had made derogatory comments about another employee who was recently deceased, and had viewed inappropriate materials <\/a>on a public computer at Oceanside\u2019s Mission Branch Library.<\/p>\n We reached out to Roy about this investigation. In a lengthy email, Roy said the investigator\u2019s report \u201cis riddled with errors,\u201d and described enduring \u201cbullying and abuse\u201d from the accusing employee. \u201cIn this whole process, if I made some mistakes then I am sorry; however, I had a manager go psycho,\u201d Roy wrote.<\/p>\n He also gave an explanation for the library incident, saying he was checking out something he had heard about nude art on some websites being available on library computers. \u201cSure enough when I looked at ebay and then etsy, there were drawings and paintings of nude men and women who were utilized by art clasess (sic) (both public and private),\u201d he wrote, and said he\u2019d only been on the public computer for a few minutes. \u201cA librarian came over to me and told me to stop looking at these images. I stopped looking,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n