Wichita ? Federal prosecutors are appealing the sentences handed down to a Wichita city court employee and a bounty hunter in a scheme to alter court records.

The U.S. attorney’s office filed a notice of appeal Wednesday of the probation sentence handed down for former municipal court collections officer Kaylene Pottorff and the one-year prison term for bail bonds agent Jessie Garland.

The official notice did not indicate the basis of the government appeal, but prosecutors have said the judge failed to take into account the seriousness of the crime.

Garland and another bond agent were accused of bribing Pottorff to alter records for people who skipped bail to save the agents from having to pay surety bonds. The loss to the city was estimated at nearly $470,000.