LaPorte County Commissioner Rich Mrozinski provided documentation for his being in Florida, so he was allowed to resume voting at meeting. Photo by Stan Maddux
LaPorte County Commissioners refusing to grant the county prosecutor with access to emails from the former prosecutor is headed to court, and with the intervention of Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita.
Commissioners had been repeatedly warned, even by their own attorney, that legal action was almost guaranteed if they continued to deny access to LaPorte County Prosecutor Sean Fagan.
Fagan is listed as the plaintiff in the lawsuit submitted June 2 in LaPorte Circuit Court by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita. Rokita’s office is paying the legal costs of the lawsuit from Fagan, who’s represented in the case by the Bopp Law Firm out of Terre Haute.
Fagan, who took office on Jan. 1, is asking for the e-mails of former prosecutor John Lake and several members of his staff from last year.
Fagan claims in the lawsuit the e-mails, currently on a county server, are needed to close any gaps in information on cases Fagan inherited from his predecessor. Fagan claims emails might include notes from talks with victims and opposing counsel, along with communications between deputy prosecutors on things like strategy in a case.
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