Calhoun County Sheriff David Tatum said it could take several days or weeks to interview all the former or current female inmates that had contact with former correctional officer William “Billy” Strawn. The interviews are part of an investigation Tatum is conducting in the wake of Strawn’s arrest late last week.

Strawn was jailed on charges of bribery and solicitation of prostitution, and was subsequently fired from his post.

The incident that helped put Strawn behind bars was caught on tape. On Monday, Tatum released a copy of the excerpted material he received from the party who recorded the encounter between Strawn and a former female inmate at the jail.

Tatum said he expected to receive a copy of the entire videotaped encounter today, and that he is talking with other former inmates to see whether there are any other allegations of questionable behavior by Strawn.

Strawn served as a transport officer for Tatum, and had worked for the department seven years.

In the videotaped incident, Strawn is seen talking to a woman Tatum identified as Lisa Vaughn.

Strawn had taken her home from jail a few hours before he went off duty and returned to her house in his personal car, Tatum said.

In a press release about the case last week, Tatum advised that Strawn allegedly went to the woman’s home in Altha and “engaged in a negotiation for sex.” She had been released from jail earlier that day after her charges were resolved, according to a press release from Tatum’s office. Tatum said Monday that her case was drug-related.

Vaughn’s husband was still in jail and awaiting further court action in his case, and she “was asking Officer Strawn for special consideration for her husband in exchange for sex,” according to a press release, which went on to say that “Officer Strawn participated in this negotiation and may have initiated it, however, it was ended when family members interrupted.”

This wasn’t the first time Strawn allegedly ran afoul of his employer’s rules.

Tatum said he disciplined Strawn in 2004 because he let a woman drive his patrol car around in a Blountstown park.

Strawn, a deputy rather than a correctional officer at that time, was stripped of that duty and lost his annual leave time as well as the position he’d risen to in the “pecking order” of the department. Tatum said officers are numbered, with Tatum being number one, and the others falling in line behind depending on their status. Strawn was officer 10 at the time, and fell to the end of the line to position 20 or 21 after the 2004 incident.