Josh Duggar 2018: ‘19 Kids and Counting’ Star’s Latest Invasion of Privacy Claims Are ‘False,’ Say Arkansas Authorities

Documents pertaining to the Arkansas authorities’ response to Josh Duggar’s latest claims of invasion of privacy were shared in a report this week. The officials argued that Duggar’s cited grounds for filing the lawsuit are “false.”

Earlier this week, Radar Online obtained details on the Arkansas officials’ response. The defendant asked the state court of Arkansas to junk Duggar’s latest invasion of privacy claims “in its entirety.”

In their response to Duggar’s claims, the officials argued, “The City, as the alleged publisher of the Offense Report, had no reason to doubt the truth of information contained in a police investigation report and therefore cannot be liable under a claim for false light invasion of privacy.”

Duggar’s claims for privacy and his status as a public personality were also reportedly questioned by the defendants. “Josh Duggar notes that he has a ‘certain level of celebrity’ and that he engaged in public life. Yet he claims that by appearing in a popular reality television series, being a leader in national, political, and civic organizations, and engaging in public speaking, he somehow was conducting himself in a manner consistent with an expectation of privacy,” the document read

Last March, Duggar filed with the Arkansas state court a second lawsuit against the Springdale and Washington County. Duggar’s camp argued that the authorities should not have released a 2006 police report on sexual molestation claims.

In 2002 and 2003, Duggar allegedly molested five girls, some of whom are his sisters, touching their private parts on different occasions. Local law enforcement officers started their investigation in 2006 after receiving a report — Duggar was already 18 at the time.

The 2006 police report made its way to the media and started a widely discussed sexual assault scandal in 2015. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that the plaintiff maintained in the March 2018 filing that laws protecting juveniles can still be applied in this case, thus prohibiting the publication of the police report.

Duggar’s lawsuit further argued there are no reasons for the contents of the said police report to be released to the public. "The facts included in said investigation were not a matter of public records and, in fact, were protected from disclosure by Arkansas state law," Duggar’s camp claimed.

Duggar faced another slew of controversies following the Ashley Madison data breach. He later admitted to cheating on his wife, Anna Duggar. In his apology post online, he initially confessed to a “secret addiction” to pornographic materials, which he later removed after editing the said social media update. Earlier this year, Josh and Anna celebrated 10 years of marriage.