A preliminary injunction blocking the law should be allowed to stand because the law is too vague in describing what kind of behavior would be allowed to prompt the police to tell journalists or others to stay 25 feet away.
Robert W. Johnson has been a trial lawyer in Indiana for more than 30 years, and this spring he became president of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association.
Jennifer Ruby, Indiana’s new public access counselor, said she’s not yet sure how the Legislature’s changes to rules regarding her office would be confining to her work.
What saved the day were a common-sense ruling and the preamble to Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act, which calls for a broad interpretation of the law that favors disclosure.
The plan is not as sweeping as the one initially approved by the Indiana Senate on April 16. Still, the compromise measure would cut nine judicial posts in four counties and add 8 judicial jobs in four others.
There’s much more work to be done to assure transparency throughout the rest of state and local government.
As a service to our readers, The Indiana Lawyer will gradually post all Indiana judges’ disclosure forms online over the next several months.
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The need to protect an officer’s safety should be balanced against the rights of citizens and the media to document police work and bring attention to police abuses when they occur.
State Rep. Hal Slager is rightfully trying to close a loophole that stems from a complicated U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a federal public corruption case involving former Portage Mayor James Snyder.
The secrecy surrounding the return of death penalty executions in Indiana isn’t exactly doing much to bolster public confidence in what some consider to be an inhumane act.
Bose Public Affairs and Taft Stettinius & Hollister have the largest lobbying presence of any law firms or independent multi-client lobbying practices this year at the Indiana General Assembly, which kicked off its 2025 legislative session last week. See our list of the top 10.
When it comes to government transparency laws, Indiana often ranks near the bottom in terms of what it requires public officials and political activists to disclose.
Two cases being considered by the Indiana Supreme Court could have a dramatic effect on Hoosiers’ rights to obtain government documents under the state’s Access to Public Records Act.
Some politicians like to play games with journalists. That certainly seems to be what was happening throughout much of this year in the northeastern Indiana city of Marion.
He can start by protecting the role of the state’s public access counselor despite the Legislature’s moves to weaken the post.
It’s not often that photojournalists’ cameras get confiscated by the government, at least not in the American land of press freedom. But it happened at the Delphi double-murder trial.
Some liberal abortion-rights activists want to cast the Republican-appointed justices as conservative extremists who walk in lockstep with the GOP-controlled Legislature. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.
The department’s lawsuit alleges South Bend uses a written examination that discriminates against Black police officer applicants and a physical fitness test that discriminates against women. The city defends its practices as fair and compliant with Indiana law.
The lawsuit against the Indiana Pacers alleges the organization violated the copyright owned by Kobalt Music Publishing America by using the song “Mmm Yeah” in promotional team videos on social media. Pacers’ attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment.