A school board in Indiana has agreed to adopt new transparency reforms in response to an open meetings lawsuit brought last year by a weekly newspaper represented by an attorney from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

In a settlement agreement finalized last month, the Board of Education of the Mooresville Consolidated School Corporation, a public school district outside of Indianapolis, said it would amend two policies to comply with Indiana’s Open Door Law, the state law that governs access to public meetings.

The school board and the Morgan County Correspondent reached the settlement months after the newspaper sued the board with free legal support from Kris Cundiff, the Reporters Committee’s Local Legal Initiative attorney for Indiana, alleging that school officials to

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