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Former Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz’s name is being removed from the official name of a $2.4 million training facility that was to have been his crowning achievement after three decades as the county’s top law officer.

County commissioners agreed to the change Monday morning at the recommendation of Sheriff Vic Regalado, who said a survey of his department revealed “overwhelming” support for dropping Glanz from the building’s name.

“To an extent, yes,” Regalado said when asked if the results of the department survey surprised him. “I figured there would be (support for) a decision to change, but that it would be for change so overwhelmingly was a surprise.”

Glanz’s name was included in the center’s official name more than a year ago but was never actually placed on the building.

Glanz led the Sheriff’s Office for 26 years and likely could have won re-election to a seventh four-year term this fall had his regime not begun unraveling last spring.

The shooting of a suspect by then-Reserve Deputy Robert Bates led to an investigation and a grand jury’s recommendation that Glanz face an ouster trail. He resigned, instead, and last month he pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors.