A federal judge ruled in favor of the Polk County Sheriff's Office in a federal lawsuit regarding juvenile detainees.
The Southern Poverty Law Center brought a lawsuit against the sheriff's office in 2012 on behalf of seven juveniles.
Attorneys for SPLC argued there was a lack of supervision at the juvenile detention facility in Bartow, that the facility didn't have enough rehab programs and that jail staff used pepper spray to break up fights.
When the lawsuit was filed in 2012, Sheriff Grady Judd called it "baloney."
"They threw all the mud against the wall they had," Judd said Thursday. "Now in Polk County, I'd call that something other than mud, but for television, I won't. Not one speck stuck, because there wasn't a speck to stick."
The ruling says the conditions at the juvenile detention center weren't consistent with the SPLC's allegations.