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Judge: Police recordings to be released once appeals heard
May 11, 2021
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Audio recordings inadvertently made a decade ago of South Bend police officers must be released to the city council, a judge has ruled in a long-running case that shadowed former mayor Pete Buttigieg s presidential run.
St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Steven Hostetler said in Monday s ruling 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.
But the recordings won’t be released to the council in the near future even though the judge wrote in his ruling that it means the South Bend Common Council’s subpoena seeking a series of nine conversations on five cassette tapes “must be enforced.”