NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An elected official gets paid six figures, so why did he only show up to work half the time the I-Team followed him?

Video: I-Team Questions Elected Official's Work Schedule

The Channel 4 I-Team watched Vic Lineweaver for a series of days and I-Team’s Jeremy Finley reported the results.

Finley said the I-Team not only found him failing to show up half the time, but found it even after he was arrested and accused of not doing his job properly.

Lineweaver's main job is to produce case files for court, so when the Davidson County juvenile court clerk repeatedly failed to do that, the courts had had enough.

“You have left me no alternative, other than to take you into custody,” a judge told Lineweaver in court.

When he was released from jail, Lineweaver vowed to make changes.

“I'm the clerk. I apologize, and it's definitely going to get better,” he said at the time.

After saying things would change, Finley said he found Lineweaver out of the office, in his bathrobe and at home at 2:45 p.m. on a documented work day.

On another day, Lineweaver showed up at the office six hours late, then, on another day he didn’t show up at all.

None of the absences were documented with the payroll department as sick or vacation time, Finley reported.

The I-Team followed Lineweaver for seven randomly chosen days over two months, and all were days listed on payroll records as full, regular pay days.

The I-Team said it watched, waited and tallied up his hours and found that he wasn't at the office half of the time.

Lineweaver is an elected official and not an hourly employee, so he doesn't punch a clock, but being in the office is what the court expects. Lineweaver is the court clerk, and every one of his job duties listed in a 2006 county audit is something done in the office: minutes, dockets, records, collecting fines and case files.

“Some of the days we show that you didn't come in until 2 in the afternoon,” Finley told Lineweaver.

“I don't know about that, Jeremy,” Lineweaver said.

According to the I-Team’s investigation, on Monday, Nov. 12, Lineweaver spent only five hours and 45 minutes at the office. The next day, he arrived at the office at 3:58 p.m. and left at 5:08 p.m. On Wednesday, he spent seven hours at the office, and on Thursday, a day listed as regular pay on payroll records, he didn't show up at all. On Friday, he was there for 6 1/2 hours.

In the final two days, in January, he didn't show up at all one day and spent 7 ½ hours at the office the next day.

His total out of seven days and 56 hours recorded with payroll, Lineweaver was in the office for a total of 28 hours.

“What we have seen is that you're not there. That's the problem. We followed you for a random 7 days and sometimes you would show up at 2 in the afternoon,” Finley said.

“I'm sorry. Is there anything else?" Lineweaver said.

Was he sick or had he taken some time off? The day the I-Team talked to him in his doorway, he told us he was sick and had been sick on other recent days. But the I-Team told him that payroll records show him claiming full work days every day it watched him.

“I haven't even taken a vacation since I've been there, either,” Lineweaver said.

So, where was he when he wasn’t at the office? One workday, he was in a parade. The day he spent one hour and 10 minutes in the office, he mingled with newly sworn in lawyers.

Then there was a day he told the I-Team he was in one place at the same time that I-Team cameras showed him at another: Lineweaver was seen at home at 2:45 p.m. checking his mail in his bathrobe and slippers, a few minutes later, Finley reached him on his cell phone. Finley was still watching while Lineweaver hadn't left his house.

“Did I catch you at a lunch or something?" Finley asked Lineweaver.

“No, me? I'm meeting about a grant,” Lineweaver said.

“You told me that you were at a meeting, and minutes earlier we saw you here at the house in a bathrobe. What would you say about that?” Finley said.

“Maybe I was in a meeting, and I came home,” Lineweaver said.

Some might wonder if maybe he works outside the office.

“No, I don't work outside of the office,” Lineweaver said.

But Lineweaver revised that answer when he requested another interview.

“Because when I asked you two days ago if you do work outside the office you said 'no,'” Finley told Lineweaver.

“No, I said yes,” Lineweaver said.

“’No,’ you said. We've got it on tape, you said, ‘No,’” Finley told Lineweaver.

“OK. Well, I do work outside the office. I do work inside my office, both,” Lineweaver said.

But is Lineweaver’s job one in which he can work from home?

Chief Juvenile Judge Betty Green said Lineweaver's job is to be in the courthouse when court is in session.

“It's here. It's right here,” she said of Lineweaver’s job.

“This is where the job is?” Finley asked Green.

“Yes,” she said.

“Do you feel that you are serving the taxpayers, that you're at work enough?" Finley asked Lineweaver.

“Yes sir. Very much so,” he said.

Channel 4 reported after the arrest how Lineweaver promised to improve things, and juvenile court officials said there have been improvements in the case files. They credit the improvements to the additional staff Lineweaver hired.

Finley said that after the first interview at his home, Lineweaver called the I-Team asking for a second interview, which was granted.

Friday night at 6 p.m., Lineweaver will address new questions including whether his staff was covering for him.