INDIANA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday, November 16, 2015
Statement by Melanie Jula Sakoda of Moraga, California, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), SNAP East Bay Director (925-708-6175, melanie.sakoda@gmail.com)
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.
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.
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