Marion County Sheriff's Merit Board v. Peoples Broadcasting Corp.

I respectfully dissent.

My concurrence in Berry v. Peoples Broadcasting Corp. (1988), Ind.App., 514 N.E.2d 1283, was founded upon the belief the evidentiary portion of a disciplinary hearing by the Sheriff’s Merit Board must be conducted openly and reporters permitted, subject to reasonable restriction, to use television cameras and tape recorders while the Board takes evidence in the case pending before it because the Indiana Open Door Law applies to that part of those proceedings. However, I here dissent because the majority’s opinion goes beyond the holding in Berry.

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