unused buildings law

It's the next step for a deal that was temporarily derailed by the Indiana Attorney General’s office.

South Bend planned to buy the district's downtown headquarters and renovate it into a new city hall, but the deal hit a snag in March following a complaint to the Indiana Attorney General's Office.

For the first time, the Indiana Attorney General’s Office has ruled in favor of a charter school under Indiana’s “unused buildings” law, which requires public schools to sell unused buildings to charter schools for $1.