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Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron fired Public Safety Director Kevin Lauer on Monday for philosophical differences, records suggest.

A human resource document said Lauer lost his job as Rutherford’s first public safety director because of a “conflict of interest between employee and county as to goals and vision for the county.”

The document also said Lauer failed “to keep mayor informed of whereabouts.”

Lauer had been on the job just nine months…