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

ROBERTSON, Judge.

The progenitor of this appeal is Berry v. Peoples Broadcasting Corp. (1987), Ind. App., 514 N.E.2d 1283, transfer pending. In that case it was held that a county sheriffs merit board hearing investigating charges of deputies’ misconduct is to be open to the public and that the news media is entitled to make reasonable use of the appliances of their trade at such a hearing.

By appropriate procedure the same case returns for our additional consideration of the issue of whether the deliberative session of the same board is subject to the Indiana Open Door Law, IND. CODE…