Indiana
Entries where the acting authority was Indiana (IN), whatever state or country the events took place in.
Jurisdiction is who acted, not where it happened. Federal conduct inside Indiana is filed under Federal, not here.
Institutions seated here (1)
Bodies whose own seat of authority is Indiana. They appear in entries under other jurisdictions too — an institution acts outside its own seat constantly — so this is not the same set as the entries below.
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Indiana General Assembly 10 entries
The Indiana General Assembly is the state's bicameral legislature, made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
2026 Events (5)
Jackson County, Ind. deputy misused Flock cameras to track girlfriend's location 2,055 times, charged with felony
On August 31, 2026, the Jackson County (Indiana) Prosecutor's Office charged former sheriff's deputy Skylar Thompson, 31, with official misconduct and fraud after a routine department audit found he had searched his then-girlfriend's license plate 2,055 times using the county's Flock camera system between December 31, 2025 and August 2, 2026, while employed as a deputy. Thompson falsely logged the searches as "city planning/traffic analysis," a duty he was never assigned, and resigned the day he was confronted before admitting the conduct to his then-girlfriend directly. A warrant was issued and he was taken into custody.
Indianapolis police officer misused automated license-plate readers for personal reasons, suspended with termination recommended
On August 13, 2026, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department announced that an officer, who has not been publicly identified, had been suspended with a recommendation for termination after using the department's automated license-plate-reader system for personal reasons. IMPD said it learned of the misuse on August 6, 2026, immediately placed the officer on administrative duty with no police powers, revoked the officer's access to the system, and collected the officer's department-issued equipment. Chief Tanya Terry recommended termination "based on facts gathered during the early stages of the administrative investigation," and both administrative and criminal investigations remain ongoing.
Indiana Gov. Braun fired IURC Commissioner Zay, called cited cause 'ancillary,' day before agency shelved rate-hike reconsideration vote
On Aug. 3, 2026, Indiana Gov. Mike Braun fired Utility Regulatory Commissioner Andy Zay, weeks after demoting him as IURC chair over a June vote approving a $71 million AES Indiana rate increase. The state cited financial-disclosure and personnel violations, but Braun told reporters those grounds were "ancillary" and that he was disappointed Zay hadn't prioritized affordability. The next morning, the IURC pulled from its agenda a scheduled vote to reconsider that same rate increase, with the new chair citing a lack of consensus among commissioners.
Indiana Capital Chronicle investigation revealed Inspector General Jared Prentice halted publication of state misconduct reports
The Indiana Office of Inspector General, led by Inspector General Jared Prentice, released nine investigative report summaries in 2025 but has published none in 2026, Indiana Capital Chronicle reported July 28, 2026. The office continues to investigate misconduct and still announces criminal or ethics charges when they occur, but no longer releases findings from investigations that do not result in charges, citing an internal legal-risk review. The state's own online investigative-reports archive independently confirms the change, listing no completed 2026 reports where prior years list several.
Indiana election officials canceled voter registrations of 981 Hoosiers, including naturalized citizens, under HEA 1264
A June 2026 analysis filed in federal court found that Indiana election officials had canceled the voter registrations of 981 existing registered voters and rejected 644 prospective registrants — approximately 62% of the 2,602 people processed under House Enrolled Acts 1264 and 1680 since those laws took effect July 1, 2025. The laws require officials to cross-reference voter rolls against a Bureau of Motor Vehicles list of people who have ever held a temporary driver's license or ID, and to strip registration from any flagged voter who cannot provide citizenship documents within 30 days. The system contains a structural flaw: people who later naturalize are never removed from the BMV's temporary-credential flag list, meaning naturalized citizens with decades of U.S. citizenship remain permanently susceptible to wrongful cancellation.
2025 Events (3)
Indiana Gov. Braun signed HB1412, shielding parents' non-affirmation of transgender children from child-neglect review
On May 1, 2025, Indiana Governor Mike Braun signed House Bill 1412 into law as Public Law 168, revising the state's child-abuse-and-neglect reporting statutes. The law specifies that a child is not a "child in need of services" solely because a parent, guardian, or custodian refers to and raises the child consistent with the child's biological sex. The provision shields a parent's non-affirmation of a transgender child's gender identity from being treated as neglect by the Indiana Department of Child Services.
Indiana Gov. Braun signed SB143, barring schools from withholding student information from parents and enabling forced outing of LGBTQ students
On April 24, 2025, Indiana Governor Mike Braun signed Senate Bill 143, the "Parental rights" law, taking effect July 1, 2025. The law bars government entities — including public schools and the Department of Child Services — from advising, directing, or coercing a child to withhold information from a parent, or from denying a parent access to information about their child, absent a compelling interest. The ACLU of Indiana warned the measure can compel the forced outing of transgender and gender-nonconforming students to their parents.
Indiana enacted HB 1041 extending its transgender-athlete ban to women's college sports
On April 3, 2025, the Indiana General Assembly gave final passage to House Bill 1041 by a 42-6 Senate vote, extending the state's 2022 ban on transgender athletes in K-12 sports to public colleges and universities. Governor Mike Braun signed the measure in April 2025 and it took effect July 1, 2025, barring athletes assigned male at birth from women's college teams, requiring institutions to adopt grievance procedures, and creating a private right of action allowing students to sue over suspected violations.
2024 Events (1)
Indiana AG Rokita issued unauthorized civil investigative demands against Evansville manufacturer, Haitian refugee-support nonprofit
On November 9, 2024, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's office announced it had issued a civil investigative demand (CID) to Berry Global Group (now Amcor) in Evansville seeking extensive records on the company's employment of migrants, followed roughly three weeks later by a substantially similar CID to the Haitian Center of Evansville, a nonprofit serving Haitian immigrants and refugees. Neither CID identified a specific suspect, victim, or incident of labor trafficking.
2023 Events (5)
Indiana enacted HB 1447, barring 'obscene' materials from school libraries and stripping educators' 'harmful to minors' defense
On May 4, 2023, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed House Enrolled Act 1447, which bars public school and charter school libraries from making available materials deemed "obscene" or "harmful to minors" and requires published catalogs and challenge-and-removal procedures. The law also removed the "legitimate educational purpose" affirmative defense that had shielded schools and their employees from Level 6 felony prosecution for disseminating material "harmful to minors." The library-restriction language, originally a stalled standalone bill, was inserted through a closed-door conference committee without public testimony.
Indiana Gov. Holcomb signed HB 1608, barring K-3 instruction on human sexuality and requiring schools to notify parents of gender-identity requests
On May 4, 2023, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed House Enrolled Act 1608 into law, creating a new statute (IC 20-30-17) that bars schools, employees, and third-party vendors from providing any instruction on "human sexuality" to students in prekindergarten through grade 3. A separate provision (IC 20-33-7.5) requires schools to notify a parent in writing within five business days whenever an unemancipated minor student requests to be identified by a different name, pronoun, or title. The bill passed the House 65-29, took effect July 1, 2023, and is codified as Public Law 248-2023.
Indiana Gov. Holcomb signed SB 350, voiding local bans on conversion therapy for minors
On May 1, 2023, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Senate Enrolled Act 350 into law, barring any Indiana city, town, or county from regulating behavioral health and human-services practitioners licensed or certified under IC 25-23.6. The measure, added as IC 25-23.6-2-8.5, was authored in response to local ordinances in Indianapolis, Bloomington, and elsewhere that had prohibited licensed practitioners from performing conversion therapy on minors, and it voids those bans and bars future local protections. Indiana maintains no statewide ban on the practice.
Indiana Gov. Holcomb signed HB1569, barring state funds for gender-affirming surgery for incarcerated people
On April 20, 2023, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed House Enrolled Act 1569 into law, adding Indiana Code 11-10-3-3.5 to bar the Indiana Department of Correction from authorizing state or federal funds to provide or facilitate gender-affirming surgery for incarcerated people, even when recommended by a medical provider. The measure, passed by the Indiana General Assembly, left hormone therapy untouched and took effect July 1, 2023. It did not apply to inmates already approved for surgery before that date.
Indiana Gov. Holcomb signed SB 480, banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors statewide
On April 5, 2023, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Senate Enrolled Act 480, barring physicians and other practitioners from knowingly providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone therapy, or gender-transition surgery to anyone under 18, on pain of professional discipline. The law, which added IC 25-1-22 to the state code, carved out exceptions for minors with medically verifiable intersex conditions and for treating complications of prior care, and required minors already on hormone therapy to stop by December 31, 2023. It took effect July 1, 2023.
2022 Events (1)
Indiana Legislature overrode Gov. Holcomb's veto to enact HB 1041, a K-12 transgender sports ban
The Indiana General Assembly voted to override Gov. Eric Holcomb's veto of HB 1041 on May 24, 2022 — the House 67-28 and the Senate 32-15 — enacting House Enrolled Act 1041 into law. The statute bars students who are male based on sex assigned at birth from participating on girls'-designated K-12 athletic teams, creating a civil cause of action against schools that allow a transgender girl to compete while immunizing schools that exclude her.
2014 Events (1)
Indiana General Assembly passed amended HJR-3, a constitutional same-sex marriage ban
On January 28, 2014, the Indiana House of Representatives voted 57-40 to pass an amended version of House Joint Resolution 3, a proposed state constitutional amendment providing that "only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Indiana," after first stripping a second sentence that would have also barred civil unions and domestic-partnership benefits. The Indiana Senate passed the same amended language 32-17 on February 17, 2014, completing the resolution's passage by the 2014 General Assembly; because Indiana requires an identically worded amendment to pass two separately elected General Assemblies before going to a public referendum, the change restarted that two-Assembly clock and the measure did not reach the 2014 ballot.
2011 Events (1)
Indiana Senate passed HJR 6, completing first-passage of anti-LGBTQ marriage constitutional amendment
On March 29, 2011, the Indiana Senate voted 40-10 to pass House Joint Resolution 6 (HJR 6), a proposed state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman and denying legal recognition to any "legal status identical or substantially similar" to marriage, thereby also barring civil unions and domestic partnerships. The Indiana House of Representatives had already passed the same resolution 70-26 on February 15, 2011, so the Senate vote completed passage of HJR 6 by the 2011 General Assembly.
2005 Events (1)
Indiana Senate and House passed SJR 7, first-passage constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage recognition
The Indiana Senate voted 42-8 on February 21, 2005 to pass Senate Joint Resolution 7, proposing a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman and barring any law from being construed to confer marital status or its legal incidents on unmarried couples. The Indiana House of Representatives passed the identical text without amendment 76-23 on March 22, 2005 and returned it to the Senate, completing first passage by the 114th General Assembly.