OWENS v. PROPES

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATHENS DIVISION WILLIAM OWENS, * Plaintiff, * vs. * CASE NO. 3:21-CV-84 (CDL) LOGAN PROPES, R.V. WATTS, and * THE CITY OF MONROE, * Defendants. * O R D E R William Owens, the City of Monroe’s former fire chief, claims that Defendants terminated him from his job in retaliation for exercising his First Amendment Rights and for reporting unlawful acts by City officials. Owens also asserts that Defendants illegally accessed the Apple watch of someone with whom he had an “intimate” relationship and violated Owens’s right to…