Grundy County Sheriff Brent MyersGrundy County Sheriff Brent Myers and a Tracy City, Tenn.-based television company are the targets of a $250,000 defamation, libel and slander suit filed by two area men Wednesday in Circuit Court.
The suit seeks damages from Myers and MY Productions LLC over comments reportedly made by the sheriff before, during and after county elections in 2010, Grundy County court records state.
Plaintiffs James E. Campbell and Kelly Foutch claim Myers defamed and libeled them by making false comments on GCTV6, a daily TV news program produced locally by MY Productions, during the campaign in response to statements Foutch made as a county mayoral candidate in a July 2010 debate.
The suit seeks $250,000 on a claim of invasion of privacy and seeks unspecified amounts for the claims of libel and slander. The claims relate in part to remarks Myers allegedly made on GCTV6 on July 26, 2010, responding to comments Foutch made during the debate held a few days earlier, and further televised comments Myers made in January 2011. In the debate, Foutch was answering questions from Campbell and others about the sheriff’s department, records state.
MY Productions LLC officials could not be reached Friday for comment. Records showed Friday the lawsuit has not yet been delivered to Myers or the television company, and no attorneys are recorded as legal counsel for either defendant, court officials said.