Purdue within law on meetings: Ruling

Indiana

Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation’s highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.Sunday

Exhibit at ISU features Bayh family

A new interactive display that documents the lives and accomplishments of Indiana’s politically prominent Bayh family has opened at Indiana State University, the western Indiana school linked to several generations of the clan.Sunday

State pulls fertilizer site backing

Indiana officials withdrew state backing Friday for a fertilizer plant over concerns about whether its Pakistan-based owners are doing enough at its overseas operations to keep the potentially explosive material from being used against U.S.Saturday

WEST LAFAYETTE – A state lawyer has ruled that Purdue University is meeting the requirements of Indiana’s open meetings law by giving general locations for private interviews of candidates for top administrative jobs.

The advisory opinion from state public access counselor Joe Hoage follows a complaint filed by the Journal & Courier after Purdue gave only Chicago O’Hare International Airport as the location for a May executive session regarding the IPFW chancellorship.

Purdue officials this month gave Indianapolis International Airport as the site for a closed meeting in the search for the replacement for departing university President France Cordova.

Hoage’s opinion says law doesn’t require exact room locations be released for the executive sessions.

Journal & Courier executive editor Michael Davis says the newspaper is reviewing the opinion.