Notre Dame Wins Police Records Lawsuit Filed by Espn, SNAP Responds

SNAP
November 16, 2016

http://www.snapnetwork.org/in_notre_dame_wins_police_records_lawsuit_filed_by_espn_snap_responds

The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that the University of Notre Dame's campus police department is not a "public agency" under Indiana law. The decision means that the school does not have to release information about investigations requested by sports media company ESPN.

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We here at SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, are concerned that this ruling will make it harder, not easier, to expose sex crimes committed on the campuses of private universities, and we hope that Indiana lawmakers will immediately get to work to close this loophole in the Access to Public Records law. College students will be safer if private schools cannot hide information about campus police investigations from the public.

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 20,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)

Contact - Melanie Jula Sakoda (925-708-6175, melanie.sakoda@gmail.com), Barbara Dorris (314-503-0003, bdorris@SNAPnetwork.org), David Clohessy (314-566-9790,