Ex Parte Sumter County

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• finding that a county “cannot be held liable for any action resulting from the hiring, training, or supervising of jail personnel”
• affirming dismissal of claims against a county based on alleged acts of sheriff and deputies who worked at the jail because Alabama sheriffs and deputies are state employees
• sheriffs and sheriffs' deputies are not county employees but are executive officers of the State of Alabama, meaning that the sheriff's county cannot be held vicariously liable for his or her actions or inactions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).