Rick Callahan

An attorney for ESPN says the powers of the University of Notre Dame’s campus police mirror those wielded by other Indiana police departments and that its officers are therefore subject to the same laws of disclosure. ESPN wants the police department to release information about the arrest of athletes on campus. ESPN attorney Maggie Smith told the state Supreme Court Tuesday that the ability of university police to arrest and apprehend are “the core powers of the state,” meaning the department must comply with state public records laws. Notre Dame attorney Peter Rusthoven argued that those laws don’t apply because Notre Dame is a private institution without government functions. He pointed out that Indiana’s public access counselor has found three times that private universities’ police records aren’t subject to Indiana’s records laws.

Indiana’s highest court has granted the state’s request for a new judge to oversee its long-running fight with IBM Corp. over the company’s failed effort to privatize state welfare services.

An Indiana woman is pleading with the state’s Court of Appeals to throw out the 20-year prison sentence that stemmed from her having an abortion. WBEZ’s Michael Puente reports from our studio in Crown Point.