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More articles on this topic: NuwaubiansTwo former Clarke County deputies fired for actions related to their involvement with the Nuwaubian religious sect are appealing to get their jobs back.
William York and Rena Jennings were both fired Nov. 15 by the Clark County sheriff’s office. They were two of five employees who were fired or allowed to resign after an investigation suggested their ties to the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors threatened jail security.
York and Jennings will appear before a county personnel officer to make their case for being reinstated, county Human Resource director Harry Owens said Tuesday.
Jennings’ hearing is scheduled for Jan. 3 and York’s is Jan. 4, Owens said.
Jailers who were members of the sect encouraged inmates to rebel against white deputies and not give black deputies any problems, according to an Aug. 17 report by the sheriff’s office internal investigations unit.
The deputies also violated policy by distributing Nuwaubian literature to inmates and trying to recruit them into the group, according to the report.
Nuwaubian leader Dwight “Malachi” York was sentenced in April 2004 to 135 years in a maximum security federal prison for molesting 14 boys and girls whose parents were members of his group.
York founded the religious sect in New York in the late 1960s and moved it to rural Putnam County in 1993.
Neither of the other fired deputies, Bobby Dixon and Anthony Montgomery, has asked to be reinstated, Owens said, but they have until Friday to request a hearing.
A fifth deputy, Leon Adams, was allowed to resign.
The report, which was obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald through a state Open Records Act request, said inmates who embraced Nuwaubian beliefs were given preferential treatment by the jailers who shared those beliefs.
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