IPAC honors award winners at annual conference
The Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council honored people in the legal and law enforcement communities who demonstrate a commitment to public safety at its annual Winter Conference Awards Ceremony.
The Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council honored people in the legal and law enforcement communities who demonstrate a commitment to public safety at its annual Winter Conference Awards Ceremony.
Indiana’s legal community is raising alarms about a statewide shortage of attorneys that has already led to barren courtrooms leaving hundreds of Hoosiers unrepresented.
Life as a lawyer is often a trial by fire, and much of what you need to know in the real world isn’t taught in law school.
One year after Indiana removed the permit requirement to legally carry a handgun, applications for firearm licenses have dwindled — and so has the number of misdemeanors filed for unlawful carry.
At the Elkhart County Prosecutor’s Office, full workforce capacity would consist of a staff of 29 deputy prosecutors, a chief deputy prosecutor and Vicki Becker, the county’s prosecuting attorney. Becker said her office currently has 18 attorneys.
Right now, there are several openings across the state for different areas of criminal law as deputy prosecutors.
Signed into law earlier this month, HEA 1006 is designed to allow Hoosiers experiencing a mental health crisis to get treatment in a local hospital, rather than in prison or jail.
To add further protection to juveniles’ rights when they’re interrogated by police, a new Indiana law passed this legislative session puts the onus on law enforcement to always be truthful.
A bill combining efforts to establish an Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Commission and hold so-called “noncompliant” prosecutors accountable has advanced out of an Indiana House committee.
It’s a bill the Indiana Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee is well acquainted with. But this time, the effort to curb so-called “social justice prosecuting” has taken a new form.
Continuing a conversation that began in 2020, an Indiana Senate committee has endorsed a bill that would further clarify the restriction on depositions of alleged child sex abuse victims.
A bill that would create a special prosecutors unit within the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council and would also establish a prosecutor commission similar to the Indiana Public Defender Commission has cleared its first legislative hurdle.
A bill removing language referencing HIV from the Indiana code needs more work and will be amended before a vote next week.
Indiana lawmakers went tough on crime Tuesday when a committee advanced a constitutional change restricting the right to bail and moved a less controversial bill barring people with more severe convictions from participating in community corrections programs.
The Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council recognized 14 individuals for their longtime careers and accomplishments at its Winter Conference Awards Ceremony this month.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers and justice system leaders that assembled on Thursday to consider how best to address county prosecutors with “blanket” nonprosecution policies agreed that handing authority to Indiana’s attorney general isn’t the route to go.
Scott County Prosecutor Chris Owens has been named the newest chairman of the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council Board of Directors.
With the Odyssey Case Management System now operational in all 92 Indiana counties, a new project aimed at better connecting justice partners is underway in Indiana. The new program, dubbed “INjail,” aims to not only make operations more efficient in sharing records — allowing courts and jails to seamlessly communicate with each other — but also to provide vital data to criminal justice stakeholders and lawmakers.
The Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council honored numerous individuals at its annual winter conference this month and named Hamilton County Prosecutor Lee Buckingham as president of the Association of Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys for 2022.
Through 10 new High Tech Crime Units being established around the state, Indiana’s prosecutors say they will be getting much-needed help with the processing of digital evidence.