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The sheriff's office refused to provide the news organizations with copies of unsustained complaints, calling it overly burdensome and an invasion of privacy.

The civilian-led office found the allegations unsustained because evidence was inconclusive.

“We don’t believe that any non-sustained or unsustained cases should be disclosed to the public,” said Michael Davey, representing the FOP at a legislative committee hearing last month.

“We should definitely expose when wrongdoing has been done and proven, but this bill puts people in jeopardy for doing their job and having somebody complain, and it being unsustained,” Sen. Justin Ready, R-Carroll, said about Anton’s Law, before voting during the Senate session on Wednesday.

“We should definitely expose when wrongdoing has been done and proven, but this bill puts people in jeopardy for doing their job and having somebody complain and it be unsustained,” Ready said.