Liberty University has filed papers in federal court to prevent a former officer from disclosing documents related to allegations of sexual assault at the school.

Liberty University was founded as a "Christian college" by the notoriously anti-LGBTQ minister Jerry Falwell. After his death in 2007, his son, Jerry Falwell, Jr. led the school until he resigned in the wake of sexual scandals in 2020.

Scott Lamb, the target of Liberty University's lawsuit, was the school's senior vice president of communications until he was fired earlier this year. He filed suit against his former employer, charging that he'd been terminated when he expressed concern that school officials were suppressing sexual assault claims among students.

The school filed a request for a restraining order against Lamb on November 5, seeking to prevent him from disclosing information related to his suit against them. The university claims that Scott is still bound by the confidentiality agreement with them that he signed as a condition of his employment.

The school's motion also asks for Lamb to surrender "all documents or other information, including all privileged, confidential, and/or trade secret information" to Liberty and to disclose all the people to whom he sent documents or information.

Liberty also filed a counterclaim to Lamb's lawsuit, contending that Lamb was fired "for insubordination, expense mismanagement, and overall poor performance."

In a statement posted on Twitter on November 7, Lamb charged that Liberty is "lying about the reason for my termination."

"Because Liberty University has neither the law nor the facts on its side, its strategy is to pound on the one who sought to reform from within — the whistleblower," tweeted Lamb.

"As I allege in my lawsuit, I spoke about abuses at Liberty during my entire duration of employment. I spoke out loudly, often, and with little regard for hanging to my job, because I spoke as one who will give an account to God."

In his statement, Lamb said that he gave over 20 hours of testimony when the Baker Tilly firm interviewed him during an independent investigation in 2021.

"Before my first minute of testimony, I was given a two-page letter of 'whistleblower protection,' signed by interim president Jerry Prevo, instructing me to speak honestly, forthrightly, thoroughly, and without any regard to the reputation of the school, its leadership, or its board.

"And Prevo promised that there would be no retaliation for my honest testimony," he wrote.

"I indicted the former president, the Board of Trustees for negligence, and Jerry Prevo as the chairman of the trustees during the entire presidency of Jerry Falwell Jr. Baker Tilly presented their report to Jerry Prevo and the Board of Trustees on September 29. Seven days later, Jerry Prevo fired me."

As a "Christian" school, Liberty University forbids sexual contact between its students unless they are married, and especially frowns on same-sex sexual relations.