Troy Moss, NIA president, said, “NIA has a shining display of diversity and inclusion that only shines brighter now that it’s juxtaposed with a display of flagrant political and religious discrimination and exclusion.”

NIA President Troy Moss was awarded the Activist of the Year Award at the American Atheists' Summer Series: Outstanding In Our Field! The event highlighted the activist work atheist communities are engaged in.

FFRF sent a letter on behalf of NIA to Chief Scott Ruszkowski of the South Bend Police Department making a formal complaint about the inappropriate and unconstitutional religious promotion on their official social media.

DeKalb County Central United School District received a strongly worded letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation on behalf of Northern Indiana Atheists (NIA) and district parents warning them about their relationship with LifeWise Academy, a released time bible study class in which children would be bussed from their schools to another location—during school hours—unsupervised by school staff.

The July 3 "Decision Day Action in Goshen: We Won’t Go Back" event was a huge success.

Purple for Parents has now expanded to five states and has been very active in Indiana. In addition to having a strong social media presence, they have been organizing and showing up at school board meetings across the state as well as pushing legislators in the statehouse to adopt their demands.

Parents at Bremen Public Schools notified us of ongoing unconstitutional prayers at their school board meetings. We sent a letter to the board asking them to refrain from including prayers as part of future meetings and to uphold the rights of conscience embodied in our First Amendment.

NIA and the Freedom From Religion Foundation are closely examining South Bend Community School Corporation’s financing of church-run programs.

NIA received yet another state/church violation report about Warsaw Community Schools. This time, the high school placed a nativity scene on top of the sneeze guard in their cafeteria.

This is a follow-up to our earlier story about the election locations in Elkhart County, when we found several infractions of election rules. This year we uncovered an anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion, anti-atheist, and anti-evolution election location.

NIA sent a letter on behalf of concerned Washington Elementary School parents to Dr. David Hoffert, superintendent of Warsaw Community Schools (WCS), and Tom Ray, principal of Washington Elementary School, asking that the school take down biblical language on the school marquee.

This story will give you a glimpse into what it’s like voting in Elkhart County in Northern Indiana. A county with a population of around 200,000.

The city of Elkhart, Indiana, sent a notification to residents that “Cover Me,” a faith-based film, would be shown on private property in the city on Sunday evening. We attended the event and uncovered state/church violations.

The "Pack the Lot" initiative that our Christian community members are participating in at local hospitals is using the same lots that patients use to access hospital services. Packing them to pray not only harms patients, it also endangers doctors, nurses, aides, and all other heath-care workers.

SB131 would force each Indiana public school to prominently display an “In God We Trust” sign in every classroom and library in the state. The government activism wing of NIA, Northern Indiana Atheists Civil and Political Rights Initiative, was able to mobilize within hours of learning the bill was being rushed through committee, and we were ready to challenge it.

Northern Indiana Atheists (NIA) member Maggie Winans will go before the Senate Committee on Education and Career Development to read testimony today and urge them to vote against IN SB131.

After concerned district parents contacted NIA to report several state/church violations, we sent a letter to Warsaw Public Schools Superintendent, David Hoffert, outlining the violations and requesting a response detailing the steps the district is taking to remedy these violations. We also requested the school system do more to protect the rights of conscience of their students in the future.

For most young adults, there comes a time when they get their driver's license, and their world and freedom suddenly become vastly larger. This is a glimpse into that experience from the perspective of a nonreligious 16-year-old member of Northern Indiana Atheists.

The Porter County Commissioners thought they were going to get away with skirting the law and violating our rights. With the help of the American Atheists Legal Center, Northern Indiana Atheists corrected them. NIA and our members got everything we asked for and more!

Northern Indiana Atheists went before the Porter County Commissioners to request equal access to the County Courthouse located in Valparaiso, Indiana. The attitudes of Porter County Commissioners Good and Biggs toward atheists were laid bare, much to the dismay of the county attorney.