The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled last week that private college police departments are subject to the state’s open records laws, but a bill passed earlier this month by Indiana’s General Assembly could undercut the ruling. The legislation would require that police departments at private colleges and universities, which have argued they are exempt from public access laws, release records related to arrests for criminal offenses. The bill exempts those colleges from releasing detailed information, however, including names of suspects if the department so chooses, as well as any information about incidents that do result in an arrest.

March 22, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed