Lake County Council prevails in legal battle with commissioners over control of purchasing, data processing

CROWN POINT — The seven-member Lake County Council is entitled to control the county's purchasing and data processing departments, not the three-member Board of County Commissioners that has managed both those departments for decades.
That's the ruling issued Friday by Lake Superior Judge John Sedia in the unprecedented lawsuit concerning the rightful separation of powers between the county's legislative branch (council) and its executive (commissioners).
In his 10-page order, Sedia said a 1981 Indiana law expressly assigns authority over purchasing and data processing to the Lake County Council, regardless of whether the council has chosen to exercise that authority in the years since.

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