State correction officials said this week they did an "informal internal" review of Dr. Metiko Olushola's second job as a medical file reviewer for the state Division of Motor Vehicles and found nothing wrong.

But they have yet to say how many hours he is working on that second job and when he is working them.

Two days before our Sunday story about Olushola's second job, the department's top medical official, Dr. Paula Smith, issued an email statement that praised the doctor, but gave no indication there had been any internal review. Olushola is the Central Prison hospital's chief medical officer.

The department didn't acknowledge the internal review until Rep. Shirley Randleman, a Wilkesboro Republican and a chief budget writer for prisons, told us on Monday that one was underway. She had not been told that it had been completed, and she was not satisfied with the lack of information about the results.

She said she would be seeking more information through legislative staff.

Our story raised questions about the second job because Olushola is reviewing as many as 10,000 files annually, earning $6 per file. These are files of people who are at risk of losing their driving privileges for health reasons.

If he spent the five minutes minimum per file that DMV officials are expecting, he would be looking at the equivalent of 18 to 20 weeks of full time work per year.

Metiko has been getting permission to perform the second job through the department by filling out a form known as a "Request & Approval of Secondary Employment" over the past decade.

Back when he began putting in for the approvals, the form included a line that required the applicant to estimate how many hours the second job would take each week. In his 2001 form, Metiko estimated two hours weekly. (We do not know how many cases he handled that year.)

But in later years, that line disappeared from the form. As a result, Metiko's supervisors are now approving his and other correction employees' requests without requiring a written estimate as to how much time those second jobs will take.

After a six-month hiatus, Durham has a probation director.

The state Department of Corrections announced this afternoon that Tony Taylor (right) has been promoted from assistant to the top manager for Judicial District 14, covering Durham, Orange and Chatham County.

In his new job, Taylor will oversee 122 probation officers and support personnel keeping up with more than 5,000 offenders on probation, parole or community supervision.

The position had been vacant since former manager Tommy Perry retired Oct. 1, 2010.

"Why'd it take so long?" said City Councilman Eugene Brown, a member of the Durham Crime Cabinet who has repeatedly expressed his frustration at the lack of someone in charge of Durham's probation system.

In January, state community corrections Director Tim Moose said the position was going unfilled due to budget constraints. Taylor and fellow assistant director Celeste Kelly of Pittsboro were jointly managing the district in the interim, Moose said.

Taylor's appointment leaves his former position open.

A Raleigh native and graduate of UNC Wilmington, Taylor became an assistant in District 14 after holding the same job in Wake County. He has specialized in electronic house arrest cases and been a chief probation officers and a member of an FBI task force on violent crime.