A former Youngstown Police Lieutenant had more than a dozen charges of dereliction of duty dropped against him Thursday.

Brian Flynn was facing 14 charges of dereliction of duty before Thursday's decision from visiting Judge Mark Frost.

According to court records, Judge Frost's conclusion said "the state failed to affirmatively establish that the compelled statement and answers to questions obtained from defendant were not used in the criminal investigation, nor in the decision of the law director to file the charges."

"Nor has the state affirmatively proven that the evidence it intends to use at trial was derived from legitimate sources wholly independent of the Garrity material. As a result of the court's findings and the applicable law, the court is compelled to, and does, dismiss all the charges pending against defendant in each of the fourteen cases," the decision continued.

Garrity rights, according to Ohio.gov, is the right not to be compelled to incriminate yourself and to have a union representative present during questioning.

Flynn was placed on paid administrative leave in March 2021 and spent more than a year and a half on paid leave before his termination from the Youngstown Police Department in December 2022.

According to Youngstown Law Director Jeff Limbian, the charges of dereliction of duty stemmed from an alleged failure to investigate over a dozen cases of child sex abuse or child pornography.

Flynn was hired by the Youngstown Police Department in August 1998. He was then promoted to detective sergeant in 2006 and lieutenant in 2011.