A new phase in R. Kelly's case for invasion of privacy against a prison guard began when the officer refuted the singer's accusations against him. The Blast described the officer's retaliation, using court records obtained by In Touch. The cop apparently retired when the case emerged. 
The unidentified law enforcement official, who has refuted all accusations of misconduct, countered that Kelly was "not in a place where" he could expect privacy. The police said that the "Step in the Name of Love" performer was unharmed and that their behavior against Kelly was neither unreasonable nor deliberate.
The officer's attorneys asked the court to reject Kelly's claims, promising to pay him nothing in exchange for his complaint.
The guard's answer is the most recent step in Kelly's legal battle against the government and prison authorities over their alleged disclosure of his personal information to well-known YouTuber Tasha K. Kelly filed the federal case against them. The Blast traces the lawsuit's antecedents back to Kelly's incarceration at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.
The singer spent that time there after his well-publicized incarceration in July 2019 before relocating to a facility in North Carolina in 2023.
Kelly cited his breach of privacy in his case, alleging that guards examined his phone logs, emails, and visits using the prison's internal system. The singer of "Fiesta" expressed his conviction that Tasha K, a YouTube blogger, purchased the information he had learned while incarcerated and then made it public on her platform. He thought Tasha K had purchased the material to post it on her platform.
The lawsuit alleging breach of privacy is only one aspect of a larger legal dispute Kelly is engaged in with the government.
News of the government's reluctance to defend Kelly in the case broke earlier this month. The government's lawyer responded with a statement highlighting Kelly's carelessness and privacy claims.
"Institutional liability arising from allegedly widespread negligent practices or policies does not apply to the United States," the statement stated.
Although the government acknowledged that their investigations had revealed that a jail official had given Tasha K critical material, the government's answer to Kelly refuted allegations that they had failed in their duty to care for her. However, the government asked that Kelly's case be dropped, which led the singer of "Ignition" to include charges in his complaint about how the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed to exercise control over its personnel and let them misuse their authority without consequence.
In his case, Kelly went even farther, alleging that the government was negligent in failing to halt the crimes committed by the BOP officials while knowing about them.
Kelly's declaration stated, in part, that the Defendant United States of America was aware that both [one of the employees] and [the other prison staff] often obtained [Kelly’s] private information from its systems and disclosed private information to third parties for financial gain, political influence, or simply harassment.
Kelly, who is incarcerated at the moment, also stated that the alleged invasion of privacy by Tasha K. and prison officials had caused him great mental pain in addition to seriously harming his reputation.
Kelly's claim for breach of privacy is still pending, and he is still incarcerated in North Carolina.