Conner Prairie
Action yesterday in the Conner Prairie case that I have discussed here before. The Indianapolis Star reports today about a hearing in a Hamilton County court Monday. The Attorney General is seeking financial information about the living history museum operated by Earlham College. The college has sought to maintain control over the museum, and keep the state out of its private affairs:
Indiana law requires that information about the management of a public trust, including income and expenditures, be available to the public.
But Earlham officials believe those three gifts are endowments and therefore don’t fall under the state’s trust code. If the judge agrees, the school wouldn’t have to provide the accounting the code requires or comply with its other provisions.
