GARDEN CITY, Idaho. -- Ada County officials on Thursday said allegations that an employee asked a man and his disabled wife to leave a county fair because the woman's appearance bothered other fairgoers are untrue.

But the Idaho Human Rights Commission says it's looking into the matter and that they have witnesses that back up Michael Harn's claim.

On Tuesday night, Michael and Rose went to the Western Idaho Fair, where Michael was volunteering at the Mothers Against Drunk Driving booth with Rose nearby.

Rose was hit by a drunk driver 22 years ago and paralyzed. She has brain damage, but Michael says she knows what's going on around her.

Michael said that during the fair, an employee of Spectra Productions, the company that produces the event, told them to leave.

"I said 'you're joking' and she says 'no I'm serious, my boss wants you to leave the fair grounds' and I said 'tell your boss to come down here and tell me that,'" Michael said.

Michael said the fair official gave little explanation for the request.

"They didn't have any, they said it's too graphic. They said my wife is too graphic because she's paralyzed," Harn said.

County spokesperson Rich Wright says MADD received several complaints regarding Harn's wife.

People at surrounding booths said Rose Harn's presence at the fair was tough to watch.

"This is a family fair. Families don't want to come here and see a woman in that type of state," said Alicia Neuschwanger, who worked at a nearby booth.

"I lost my best friend last year in a car accident and I saw her in that vegetative state for, you know, like a week before she died. It was really offending -- I actually had to end up leaving work early because I couldn't handle it."

On Thursday, Ada County Commissioner Paul Woods disputed Miachael's version of events.

"I want the community to know that the allegations that Mr. Harn are making for me, in my mind, there's just no basis because that's not how we operate county government," he said.

Woods and Rick Yzaguirre, also a county commissioner, said they conducted numerous interviews with fair staff and its management to come to a conclusion.

"It's in our opinion that it never happened," Yzaguirre said.

When told of the commissioner's findings, Harn said he's standing by his claims. While the fair employee never forcibly removed him and his wife, he says he was still asked to leave because of his wife's condition.

"I swear on my life," Michael said Thursday.

Local MADD officials say while the incident happened at their booth, they were not involved in Tuesday night's dispute. After speaking with fair officials the next day, however, they agreed to remove the Harn's from future volunteer appearances.

In an e-mail, Miren Aburusa, the local MADD director, wrote the fair's director:

"First, I apologize for the problems and inconvenience our booth has caused you. Second, we removed Mr. Harn from tonight's schedule as a volunteer and we have vocalized this to him. So should he come to the fair it will not be as a volunteer for MADD."

Yzaguirre said Ada County would never ask a person with a disability to leave the premise solely based on his or her condition.

"We take great pride in allowing access to those who are disabled," he said. "We would never limit anyone."

The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho said it was looking into the incident.

"To our detriment, people with disabilities are still far too often treated as second-class citizens, shunned and segregated by physical barriers and social stereotypes, and this is unconstitutional," the organization said in a statement Wednesday night.