Scott Mayfield

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Current attorney for the County, whose responsibility involves ensuring the county adhere's to state and federal law.

Ryran Traylor

Scott Mayfield

Scott Mayfield is an attorney with Smith, Welch, and Webb Law Associates located here in Barnesville, Ga. He is currently the acting attorney for the county, and was appointed prior to our family’s difficulties. He is suspected of being the chief architect of the destruction of our home.

Scott Mayfield

Scott Mayfield is an attorney with Smith, Welch, and Webb Law associates here in Barnesville, Ga. He became acting attorney for the county prior to the beginning of our family’s difficulties. Of all the real estate attorney’s used by the property developers who targeted our family, they used everyone but him. This has allowed him to avoid any conflict of interest representing both the county and the developers. He is the attorney that advised the county to ignore our complaints regarding the illegal and documented construction practices occurring on the property beside us. It is safe to assume he has also advised the county to ignore the numerous complaints we have made about the Fire Chief violating the law and neglecting his duties of office, and the zoning administrator’s misrepresentation of state law.

In regards to the on going violations occurring on both development projects, the violations were admitted by the developers themselves, so there was no dispute over the matter of fact regarding whether the violations occurred or not, because both parties agreed on their occurrence. Mr. Mayfield only used a legal technicality to allow the county to further ignore the mounting number of violations and the millions of dollars in potential revenue the county was refusing to pursue from the illegal activity. The technicality occurred because our property is held by the estate of our late grandmother, and because the courts are waiting for the closing of the estate to occur in order to be certain who is the actual property owner, we cannot bring the matter before the court as a property owner. It does not mean the illegal acts did not occur, nor does it mean we do not have the right to defend our inheritance, it just means we have to be the property owner to bring up the matter in a lawsuit regarding property law. It does not prevent anyone else from pursuing the matter.

His argumentation for the refusal was rather odd, because it did not protect the county from any future legal issues that might arise, nor did it bring the county in alignment with federal law. The only party that truly benefited from the use of the technicality were the developers who performed the violations. Which is very odd, indeed. You would think his obligation as an officer of the court to represent the legal interest of the taxpayers and uphold the law would take precedence over protecting those who admitted to violating the law, but we do not know for certain.

We do know Mayfield was employed as county attorney while also being employed as the attorney for the county waste management authority, which presented a conflict of interest when the county began to look into the finances of the waste management authority. We do know that attorneys face extremely strict standards when it comes to conflicts of interests, and that his involvement as representing both parties resulted in him being relieved of his duties by the waste authority.

All of this raises suspicion over his involvement in the affair. As mentioned throughout this site, except for having a signed confession, all signs point to the involvement of an unscrupulous legal counsel. Why would he protect the developers and not uphold the law while protecting the county, unless he was somehow involved with the developers? When asked this, Mr. Mayfield did not deny it, he simply stated “I will not answer that.” Which, as pointed out to him, does not bring an end to the suspicions regarding this matter, but if anything, increases it.