Now that is a real stretch aka bold face lie...
revealing the public IP address of the Sheriff’s Department, can be found out by anyone in a matter of minutes....a simple traceroute could do it....or do a nslookup on a website the sheriff has up....
Besides behind the routers they are using an ip address scheme that is not routable on the internet anyway....
They are using some type of Network Address Translation aka NAT to allow access from the Internet to a service that is behind the router and internal...
The officials they are protecting are themselves, for criminal prosecution for election fraud.
I am not sure how you know that!