Oconee County Removed As Defendant in Lawsuit

Oconee County has been removed as a defendant in the lawsuit by ex-deputy Lisa Price against Sheriff Scott Berry.

Price sued Berry and the county at the beginning of March claiming the Sheriff’s office kept a “secret discriminatory file.”  Sheriff Berry says the county should have never been sued in the first place. “I fired her, Not the county.”

We will continue to update you as the trial goes along.

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