immunity. Floyd County and the Floyd County Fiscal Court remain protected from Shepherd’s state law claims. III. Governmental Immunity Also Bars Shepherd’s State Law Claims Against the Individual Defendants in their Official Capacities. Governmental immunity protects the individual jailer and deputy jailers from suit in their official capacities. Jailers, in their official capacities, are “cloak[ed]” with the “county’s sovereign immunity.” Harris, 59 S.W.3d at 899 (reasoning that the jailer is a constitutionally elected officer of the county under Section 99 of the Kentucky Constitution, and reports to the fiscal court, which oversees the jail’s operation and budget (citations omitted)); see also Comair, Inc. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban Cnty. Airport Corp., 295 S.W.3d 91, 94 (Ky.2009) (<HOLDING>); Yanero, 65 S.W.3d at 522 (stating agency
holding that county airport board and twenty board members in their representative capacities had sovereign immunity in suit for negligence holding that members of the board of trustees of an elementary school had standing to challenge the actions of the county board of education because they suffered an actual injury when the county board nullified their unanimous vote to reject a candidate for principal of the elementary school holding that board members would not be entitled to qualified immunity for their failure to respond to the ohio board inquiry because it was a ministerial act and reversing the district courts dismissal of mishlers complaint recognizing absolute immunity for board members and the director of the mississippi state board of nursing recognizing absolute immunity for attorneys and board members of the texas medical board