LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Former Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel filed a handwritten civil lawsuit from jail against several of his former colleagues, claiming his constitutional rights were violated.
The suit was filed April 17 in federal court against current Clark County Sheriff Scottie Maples, Assistant Chief Mark Grube, Scott County Sheriff Jerry Goodin and two others.
In the filing, Noel alleges his rights to freedom of religion under the 14th Amendment were violated when officials at the Clark and Scott county jails wouldn’t accommodate his Catholic faith. He claims Goodin turned away a Catholic priest who attempted to hear confession and administer communion to Noel. He also accuses Maples of taking a photo from a secure jail camera monitor of Noel praying and posted it on social media “to ridicule me and mock me for practicing my Catholic faith.”…