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In the case of State ex rel. Ames v. Portage Cty. Bd. of Commrs., Slip Opinion No. 2023-Ohio-3382, the Ohio Supreme Court held that the city’s failure to attach an exhibit that was incorporated into a public record by the language of the public record constituted a violation of R.C. 149.43(B)(2). In this case, the […]

In the case of State ex rel. Bower v. Cincinnati, 2023-Ohio-3369, an appellate court held that the police officers’ challenge pursuant to the anonymity rule under Civil Service Rule 10, Section 6 entitled the officers to a quasi-judicial hearing, an appeal for which the court of common pleas could hear. In this case, the police […]

In the case of State ex rel. Fluty v. Raiff, Slip Opinion No. 2023-Ohio-3285, the Ohio Supreme Court held that a letter that is attached to a police report does not make that letter a part of the police report when the letter is not noted in the report. In this case, the teacher argued […]

In the case of State ex rel. Ware v. Stone, 2023-Ohio-3284, an appellate court held that the prosecutor’s office provided the requested public records in a reasonable time when the initial public record request envelope did not contain an actual record request and the prosecutor’s office complied with the request within eleven days of receiving […]

In the case of State ex rel. Cleveland Assn. of Rescue Emps. v. Cleveland, Slip Opinion No. 2023-Ohio-3112, the Ohio Supreme Court held that a public office could not summarily deny a public records request from a union for email correspondence spanning the course of a month simply because it did not contain search terms […]