SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A judge has ruled that audio recordings inadvertently made a decade ago of South Bend police officers must be released to the city’s council.
St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Steven Hostetler ruled Monday that because no members of a group of current and former officers were recorded speaking on the tapes they lack the legal standing to challenge their release. The judge wrote that means the South Bend Common Council’s subpoena seeking a series of nine conversations on five cassette tapes “must be enforced.”
The South Bend Tribune reports the judge previously ruled that any recordings cannot be released until after all appeals are heard in the case.
