A state law enforcement board this week took its next step toward deciding whether Dubois County Sheriff Tom Kleinhelter should lose his police certification .

After a brief procedural meeting at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in Plainfield, the pending case against Kleinhelter is tentatively on track for lengthy evidentiary hearings in April.

The Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board’s decertification subcommittee will weigh the charges, and the full board will ultimately decide whether Kleinhelter should be stripped of his law enforcement credentials.

Kleinhelter appeared Monday alongside his lawyer, Jim Voyles; general counsel Raquel Ramirez represented the train board. Subcommittee chairman David Wantz led the four-minute meeting.

The parties agreed to exchange initial di

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