GALLAGHER v. MARION CTY. VICTIM ADVOCATE

No. 2-777-A-292.

401 N.E.2d 1362 (1980)

Eugene GALLAGHER, Chief of Police, Indianapolis Police Department, Merrill Lowry, Ph.D., Director-Department of Public Safety, Defendants-Appellants, v. MARION COUNTY VICTIM ADVOCATE PROGRAM, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Indiana, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied April 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheila S. Suess, Corp. Counsel, City-County Legal Div., Stephen Goldsmith, Chief Trial Deputy, Corp. Counsel, Indianapolis, for defendants-appellants.

Susan R. Porter, Indianapolis, for plaintiff-appellee.


YOUNG, Judge.

The Marion County Victim Advocate Program, Inc. [MCVAP] brought this mandamus action in the Marion Superior Court to compel access to certain Indianapolis Police Department reports known as DHC's.1 The DHC's are reports made by an officer who is called to the scene of a crime, accident or other incident which detail the location, time and description of the incident and include the names of any victim, witness or suspect...

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