INDIANA
South Bend Tribune
By Margaret Fosmoe South Bend Tribune
The University of Notre Dame’s campus police department is not a “public agency” under Indiana law and does not have to release information about investigations requested by sports media company ESPN, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled in a widely watched case.
The ruling was released Wednesday afternoon.
The decision means Notre Dame and other private colleges in Indiana with professional police forces have no obligation to provide details of campus police reports and investigations.
City, county and other professional police forces must make such information available to the public under Indiana’s Access to Public Records law.
ESPN in 2014 sought campus police records from Notre Dame Security Police for cases involving a list of student athletes. The university refused the request, citing its status as a private university, and the sports media company sued.
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