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MARION CTY. SHERIFF'S MERIT BD. v. PEOPLES BROADCASTING CORP.

No. 41A01-8711-CV-296.

530 N.E.2d 755 (1988)

MARION COUNTY SHERIFF'S MERIT BOARD AND JAMES L. WELLS, Marion County Sheriff, in His Official Capacity, Appellants (Defendants below), and Michael R. Berry and Rex E. Thompson, Individually and As Marion County Sheriff's Deputies, Appellants (Third Party Plaintiffs below), v. PEOPLES BROADCASTING Corp., Videoindiana, Inc., Susquehana Broadcasting Co., Inc., d/b/a Radioindianapolis, Inc., Tel-Am Corp., McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Corp., Inc., Steven E. Sweitzer, Michael J. Androvett, Joseph Hallinan, and Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc., Appellees (Plaintiffs below).

Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Malone, Asst. Corp. Counsel, City-County Legal Div., John C. Ruckelshaus, John F. Kautzman, Ruckelshaus, Roland, Hasbrook & O'Connor, Indianapolis, for appellants.

Richard A. Waples, Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Robert P. Johnstone, Jan M. Carroll, Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, for appellees.

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 sheriff's 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.

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