SC Sheriff's Association terminates Greenville County Sheriff Will Lewis' membership (for sex)

The South Carolina Sheriff's Association has terminated Greenville County Sheriff Will Lewis' membership citing “conduct detrimental to the interests of the Association and the Office of Sheriff,” the organization said in a release Monday night.

The move comes after Lewis publicly admitted to a "consensual encounter" with a former Sheriff's Office employee last month, according to Jarrod Bruder, executive director of the Sheriff's Association.

The board of directors unanimously voted on the decision at a special called meeting Monday, Bruder said. It was the first time the association has used its ability to remove a sheriff’s membership since its bylaws were changed in 2015, he said.

“We are not, in any way, trying to be the moral police,” Lancaster County Sheriff and Sheriff’s Association President Barry Faile said in a statement.

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