The chief of a volunteer fire department in Clark County is suing a former staff member, who’s also a citizen journalist, for defamation, following a social media post last month.
Utica Fire & Rescue Chief Joe Jarles and Deputy Chief Eric Brown filed the lawsuit last week against Shawn Bostock and his company, Journalism With Integrity LLC. The court filing states Bostock falsely claimed on Facebook that the plaintiffs were “engaged in criminal, unlawful and unethical behavior in their profession and were the subject of criminal investigations.”
The lawsuit says Bostock “knowingly and intentionally published false, derogatory statements about Plaintiffs on their Facebook page that contained defamatory imputation.”…