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Page 2 August 2021 HSPA Board of Directors HSPA Foundation Board Members Alan Achkar, South Bend Tribune Bill Hackney, e La Porte County Herald-Dispatch (Michigan City) and e Rochester Sentinel Don Hurd, Hoosier Media Group Gillian Kelk, Sullivan Daily Times Brenda McLane, Hometown Media Group Mark Miller, e News-Banner (Bluon) Kathy Tretter, Ferdinand News and Spencer County Leader (Rockport) HSPA Board Members Nathan Feldman, Indianapolis Business Journal Bud Hunt, AIM Media Indiana Beverly Joyce, CNHI Curt Kovener, e Crothersville Times Robert Shegog, Indianapolis Recorder Scott Stanford, Fort Wayne Newspapers Chris White, e Times Media Co. HSPA Board of Directors HSPA Officers President: Larry Hensley, e Hoosier Times HSPA Foundation Board of Directors HSPA Foundation Officers President: Robyn McCloskey, CNHI HSPA Staff Steve Key, executive director, general counsel skey@hspa.com (317) 624-4427 Pamela Lego, advertising director plego@hspa.com (812) 350-7711 Shawn Goldsby, statewide advertising manager sgoldsby@hspa.com (317) 803-4 772 Ruth Witmer, communications specialist news@hspa.com (317) 624-4430 Any staff updates at your paper? Launching an innovative project? Let us know. Email your news to news@hspa.com. speak now or forever hold your peace moment," Key said. Once the proposal is presented to the four leaders of the legis- lative caucuses, it will become increasingly difficult to make substantial changes. The Summit will start at 10 a.m., Friday, Sept. 10, at the Indianapolis Star's Pulliam Production Facility, 8278 Georgetown Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268. The event is expect- ed to end by noon. HSPA will argue before the state legislature that any changes in public notice law should maintain the four ele- ments of effective notice: Accessibility Hoosiers need to have an easy way to access public notices. Verification There must be the ability to prove the notice was properly published/posted. Archivability There must be a system in place to preserve the notices for legal and historical refer- ence. Independent The distribution system should be independent from government entities to avoid possible corruption of the pro- cess designed to provide legal due process and government transparency. The last element will be the crux of any legislative battle as local government represen- tatives have argued for years that notices should merely be posted on their websites and forego the need to involve local newspapers. The HSPA proposal will also attempt to address com- plaints about the cost of pub- lishing public notices, costs for indigent plaintiffs, and notices in counties without a local newspaper. The effort to proactively address the public notice policy issue began with the last HSPA Public Notice Summit held in 2019. HSPA has fought 95 anti-public notice bills during the last 22 legislative sessions. A bill to eliminate any publication requirement in newspapers died in the Indiana House of Representatives last year due to the lack of a constitutional majority (not the lack of a majority vote). By Sept. 3, HSPA asks publishers to email Shawn Goldsby at sgoldsby@hspa. com their intent to participate in the Sept. 10 Public Notice Summit and who else will be attending with them as some publishers may want to bring ad directors or those who over- see the placement of public notices. "We hope to end the yearly legislative battle over public notice requirements with our progressive proposal," Key said. "Public notice has been a part of Indiana's history of government transparency and due process going back to its days as a territory. It shouldn't be discarded into the dustbin of history just because technology has advanced." "We hope to end the yearly legislative battle over public notice requirements with our progressive proposal." — Steve Key HSPA executive director, general counsel Public notice Continued from Page 1 "This gathering is almost a speak now or forever hold your peace moment." — Steve Key HSPA executive director, general counsel Related content: "Newspapers must make case for public notices" Read Steve Key's column on page 5

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