HELENA — A lawsuit accuses the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office in Montana of illegally deleting comments and banning people from its Facebook page.
Lewis and Clark County residents Chase Berg and Deanna Anderson allege in the suit that the actions of the sheriff’s office have violated their First Amendment and 14th Amendment rights.
The Independent Record reports that the lawsuit was filed this past week in district court in Helena.
Berg and Anderson are asking the sheriff’s office to restore deleted posts, to not allow anyone to be banned for political speech or remove protected speech and to allow banned users to use the Facebook page again.
Sheriff Leo Dutton says he was unaware of the lawsuit and had not yet been served.