Garfield County Sheriff’s Detentions Deputy Disciplined for Using Racial Slurs Against Black People in Internal Conversation

Deputy Ty Myer received mandatory training, and was terminated months later after multiple reports of ‘conduct unbecoming’

Garfield County Sheriff’s Jail Deputy Ty Myer was terminated July 7 after an internal investigation found he had dared an inmate to open the cell of another who was using the toilet, according to disciplinary records.

Myer had multiple disciplinary notices in the past nine months before being terminated, according to records, two including behavior toward inmates, as well as a previous deferred sentence for a domestic violence-related assault in 2019.

In November 2025, disciplinary records state that Myer and other deputies were discussing living in Florida, and he said that in Jacksonville you have to watch out for the “chimps.” It states that later in the conversation he talked about “different dialects in the country and brought up both ‘basketball speak’ and ‘chimpin’.’ ”

The disciplinary record continues that Myer told a white co-deputy he should have a kid as he “has the genes for it,” with the co-deputy later saying he believed Myer was referring to his race. Myer was assigned anti-bias and anti-harassment trainings.

A few months later in February, the sheriff’s office received a grievance from an inmate that stated Myer swore at them and threatened to write them up if they requested a grievance, and slammed their cell window shut. Myer only admitted to slamming the window, according to the record, and was found to have violated department policy through “conduct unbecoming” and was told to write an essay on “the importance of maintaining professionalism both on and off duty.”

A few months later again, in April, Myer was disciplined for calling over the radio to “push her,” in regards to an inmate who began to refuse to move when being transferred to housing while in full restraints, according to his disciplinary records. He was again found to have violated internal policy through “conduct unbecoming,” and was assigned trainings in “career professionalism,” “corrections liability” and “officer liability.”

Farther back in September 2019, Myer was arrested on domestic violence-related charges of second-degree assault through strangulation, third-degree assault through recklessly or knowingly causing injury, criminal mischief $300 to $750, and second-degree tampering with intent to injure, inconvenience or annoy. All charges were dismissed besides second-degree assault for which Myer received a two-year deferred sentence, 100 hours of community service and three days of jail time but credited three days time served.

Myer's job application reflects this arrest.

Myer was hired in April 2025, and is the second Garfield County Sheriff’s detention deputy terminated for cause in just as many months, with five deputies terminated for cause in 2025.