After our issue on Freedom of Information battles, Joe Carroll of the Hammond (Ind.) Times shared this story: The criminal court clerk in a nearby city refused to let me look at a court file for a woman jailed on battery and resisting arrest charges. The court clerk said she is, by law, the Keeper of Records, not the Distributor of Records. Eventually, it took a brief lawsuit to straighten them out.
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