The Marion County Sheriff’s Office has won another legal battle with the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy.
The Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Sheriff’s Office over ILEA’s refusal to train its deputies.
The Sheriff’s Department originally filed suit asking the Court to declare that its officers were law enforcement officers.
The judge in the case ruled in favor of the Sheriff’s department.
On appeal, the court noted ILEA had abandoned its lower court argument that Sheriff’s deputies were not law enforcement officers but instead argued, for the first time, the Sheriff’s deputies are not appointed by a merit board, and, for that reason, they were ineligible to receive training from the Training Board.
The Court of Appeals rejected that argument, stating it cannot hear issues that were not brought up at the trial court level.
ILEA also appealed on the grounds that the lower court issued an injunction against them. The Appellate court knocked that argument down as well. Stating that the lower court issued a declaratory judgment and not an injunction.
A copy of the opinion is below.
