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The ACLU of Indiana wants the state to release some jail and prison inmates at risk from COVID-19. The Holcomb administration didn’t indicate it would do so.

The hospital says it has identified areas to place patients and developed plans to mitigate risks of infection spreading within the hospital.

The emergency petition comes as states around the country are seeking to depopulate jails and prisons to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Eric Schaeffer used to work in EPA enforcement and now leads the group the Environmental Integrity Project. If companies aren’t monitoring, he says, how will they know if they release too much pollution?

The FBI is warning people to watch for scams targeting federal stimulus payments tied to the coronavirus outbreak. Last week, the federal government passed legislation that would provide money to most Americans.

Many exercise studios have shut down for the time being, but people still need exercise, especially when anxiety is high. So studios are changing their business models and getting people to exercise over the internet.

IUPD says seven or eight people attended the party on Dunn, 10 to 15 went to the one on Ninth and about 20 people were at the one on North Jordan. He says there were no parties this weekend of more than 100 people.

In some U.S. states, golf, guns and ganja have been ruled essential, raising eyebrows and a good deal of ire. In many places, booze is also on the list of essentials.

U.S. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) says Surgeon General Jerome Adams’s warning about Indianapolis being an upcoming COVID-19 hotspot should “put the scare factor into everyone.”

Indianapolis had the most new cases at 135, while Monroe Co. had six. An IU Health infectious disease expert says the high number of cases in Marion Co. has more to do with testing availability than where the disease is concentrated.