Praisner v. State

Summary

The court affirmed the Appellate Court's determination that a university special police officer is not a member of a local police department entitled to indemnification under the earlier version of the statute. It agreed that the statutory structure, including the express identification of certain police forces and the separate statutory treatment of university police forces, excluded the plaintiff from the waiver of sovereign immunity. The court also held that the later amendment expanding coverage was a substantive change rather than a clarification and therefore did not apply retroactively.