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This woman was (and is) a psycho, and any person reading this (never mind an IT person) would immediately grasp the nature of this woman, and wonder why she wasn't escorted out of the building on day one with a cardboard box full of her belongings.

When you read what this woman did, it is astonishing (this is derived from the full article at the New York Post:

NEW YORK POST: How a fake whistleblower peddled lies about Florida’s COVID deaths

Jones’ bad behavior was first formally reported on May 6, 2020, when the IT director at the FDOH, Craig Curry, emailed the department’s labor relations consultant, Tiffany Hicks, “looking for guidance” on “properly documenting actions of one of my employees and to get guidance on proper preparation in case action needs to be taken.” Among the “actions” that Curry sought to “document” were that the employee — Rebekah Jones — had written “posts on website [sic] and social media regarding data and web product owned by the Department that she works on without permission of management or communications”; that she had released infographics that “should have been identical to data published by our communication department” but were not; and, most seriously, that she had possibly exposed “personnel data” in the process.

Asked to clarify the problem by Hicks, Curry confirmed that, between April 9 and April 30, 2020, he had verbally told Jones to stop talking to the press without permission, and, more specifically, that he had told her to stop releasing health department data or representing her employer without consent.

In her response to Curry, sent later that day, Hicks proposed one of two actions: that Jones should either be “separated” (i.e., fired) or else be put through a “Management Counseling” procedure that would “address and document the recent incidents.” The latter process, Hicks explained, “would be informal and would not be placed in the employee’s personnel file.” But “if similar behavior continues,” she added, “it is a [sic] management’s decision to move forward with termination.”

Apparently, the department chose the second action, because, by the end of the day, Jones was still working at the FDOH, albeit in a slightly altered role. In his notes, Curry records that, having been “instructed by management to replace Ms. Jones as primary on the COVID Dashboard,” he called her “to notify her that she was being removed from her duties as primary GIS [geographic information system] developer on the department’s COVID-19 dashboard.”

Again: This was not a termination. As Curry explicitly noted, Jones “was informed that she was maintaining her role as GIS team manager and was to resume normal day to day responsibilities, but she was to cease any duties and administrative roles associated with the COVID-19 GIS dashboard.”

The next day, on May 7, 2020, Jones crashed the dashboard.

Without telling a single person what she was doing, Jones created a new account within the GIS system and moved a tranche of data into it. This both broke the setup and sincerely confused the department’s IT staff. “Because the team was not informed,” Curry wrote, it “began troubleshooting the issue as if it were a system issue” — which, of course, it was not. In the process, the FDOH asked Chris Duclos, a GIS manager and the only other person besides Jones who had “full administrative right [sic] in our system[,] to help.” This Duclos did, primarily “by modifying ownership of objects to return the process to the previous state” — that is, to roll back the system to how it had been when it was working. At 1 p.m. that day, aware that Duclos was reversing her power grab, Jones locked Duclos out of his account.

By 1:35 p.m. on the same day, Jones had been instructed to restore Duclos’ full administrative access. Six and a half hours later, at 8:08, she responded by saying that she would, and then, at 8:28, added that she intended to leave Florida to spend some time with her family in Mississippi. Except … she didn’t.

Instead, as Curry recorded, Jones set Duclos’ permissions to a lower level than administrator and left herself as the sole person within the FDOH who had administrator status. In response, Duclos emailed the state’s GIS vendor and requested that his full permissions be restored. This was done.

Then came a lull. Having been asked what on Earth she was doing, Jones claimed that she had set herself up as the sole administrator as the result of “security concerns,” and, under the impression that this excuse had been accepted by the department, she started playing nice. Two days later, Curry reported, “the entire team seemed to be getting along and moving forward.”

At 9:30 a.m. May 15, encouraged by the improvement in Jones’ behavior, and having got the dashboard back up and running, the FDOH decided that “Management Counseling was still the correct option for previous occurrences.”

That decision would last for only a few hours: At 1:46 p.m., Jones sent a mass email to everyone who used the dashboard — many of whom were external to the department — explaining that she was no longer assigned to the dashboard and suggesting that she had been removed because she had refused to manipulate data. Within minutes, the press began crawling all over the story. Three days later, Jones was fired.

From that moment on, Jones has sought relentlessly to portray herself as a martyr who was dismissed for telling “the truth.” Having waffled a little in the first few days, she quickly hit upon a specific claim to bolster this overall impression: that she was instructed by Dr. Shamarial Roberson — the well-respected chronic disease epidemiologist who is currently serving as Florida’s deputy secretary of health, and is the first African American to hold that post — to “delete cases and deaths” in order to present a rosier version of what was happening in the state. Absurdly accusing this official of being a “liar, fraud, murderer,” Jones now says that Roberson “asked me to go into the raw data and manually alter figures.”

This is the same woman that a police report obtained by Ocala Post from Tallahassee charged that Rebekah Jones, the woman who claimed she was fired from the DOH for refusing to falsify COVID-19 data, has an open criminal investigation for sexual cyberharassment and cyberstalking. The charges came after a man who previously had a restraining order against Jones said she created a revenge porn website and posted nude photos of him.

According to the police report, Jones shared the website with the man’s employer, family, and friends..

She was also fired from Florida State University in 2017 for having an affair with a student -- and later was charged with cyberstalking.

Someone like this should be incarcerated, fined, made to pay restitution, and never be allowed to work in the field again. Granted, she sounds like she is mentally ill. But the Left in the Media and the Democrat party have ALWAYS found mentally ill people useful, as James O'Keefe's Project Veritas displays one of their dirty "fixers" bragging about in a videoed recording.