Corruption news for Indiana, frrom the Hoosier State Press Association:

The new Indiana public access counselor has added another link to a chain of opinions that severely limits the public’s ability to review email exchanges of government officials and employees.

The first section of the Access to Public Records Act says the statute “shall be liberally construed to implement this policy and place the burden of proof for the nondisclosure of a public record on the public agency that would deny access to the record and not on the person seeking to inspect and copy the record.

Heather Neal’s 2009 opinion, followed by the next PAC, Andrew Kossack (pictured, right), and current PAC Joe Hoage, deviates from that philosophy by crimping the public’s ability to investigate what public officials are doing.

Read the rest of the story at the Hoosier State Press Association.