UPDATED 11:40 p.m. – Ald. Purchase has responded via her Facebook page.

Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – A Springfield alderwoman is the focus of a state investigation which has found “reasonable cause” that she engaged in city and township business while on state time.

Lakeisha Purchase had been working for the Illinois Department of Transportation but no longer does.

An 18-page report published this week says Purchase failed to notify IDOT of her role as a Capital Township trustee; attended township meetings on state time; conducted city business on state time; spent state time on personal phone calls; and performed campaign work for a secretary of state candidate on state time.

The report includes allegations of her social media activity, including for her own city council campaign, on state time. The report says her response to that is that the social media posts were not written on state time but were scheduled to post later in the day.

Purchase did not respond to a text message from WTAX News seeking comment. A city spokeswoman told the State Journal-Register that it’s a private matter unrelated to the city.

The report‘s findings:

“Lakeisha Purchase violated IDOT policy by failing to disclose her outside employment.
“Lakeisha Purchase violated IDOT policy by conducting secondary employment on State time by, at minimum, attending meetings and participating in phone calls
related to her secondary employment during State time.
“Lakeisha Purchase violated IDOT policy by abusing State time by conducting personal phone calls on State time.
“Lakeisha Purchase violated the Ethics Act and IDOT policy by engaging in prohibited political activity by, at minimum, having campaign-related phone calls and/or texts on compensated State time.”