When the Lee County Commission meets Tuesday, the likely main topic of discussion will be with Don Stilwell, the county manager, who has apologized after sexually explicit emails were found on his work computer this past week.

According to reports in The News-Press, one of the commissioners said any sanctions could come up including his termination.

The meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Lee County Commission Chambers in the courthouse downtown. Commissioner Ray Judah said the controversy will come up before the board. Judah is chairman of the Commission.

Stilwell’s office computer along with several others were loaded up Friday complying with orders from federal authorities. Nobody has been told the reason for removing the computers for a probe.

Stilwell said it was a mistake and that he wished it hadn’t happened, according to The News-Press. Stilwell said that he didn’t want to downplay the situation, but he was not discussing county employees, or creating a hostile work environment and the emails were to and from people he had known for than 10 years, according to the News-Press.

Then he said the Commission could look at his emails. “I am not some pervert sitting here doing this,” he told the News-Press.

An opinion is expected at the Tuesday meeting from County Attorney David Owen whether or not the county’s email policy was violated.

Stillwell is quoted in The News-Press in its Saturday editions as saying “I forwarded inappropriate emails to close confidants and friends, and that was wrong. These emails were sexually explicit, but not pornographic.”

Many of the emails were photos of women showing their breasts or buttocks, the newspaper said.

“I received them from outside the county and forwarded them as part of my personal use on my county computer. We all know the chain of events that led to them being publicly disclosed,” Stilwell wrote in an email to commissioners, the newspaper said.

The FBI has requested at least 10,000 electronic messages in a letter on March 4. According to the letter, the FBI wanted Stilwell’s emails containing keywords or specific terms such as “Samir” and “grant.”

The county attorney is considering how e-mails sent from other county employees that could be considered sexually explicit will affect their jobs, Judah told the newspaper.

According to county policy, emails continuing sexually explicit materials is against county policy.

Whether or not Stilwell violated county policy, Stilwell told The News-Press that he would leave that opinion to the county attorney.