In the case of Campbell v. Licking Hts. Local School Dist., 2019-Ohio-2733, an Ohio appellate court held that an after-school program employee not liable for defamation as a result of providing information to local law enforcement for the purpose of crime prevention and/or detection. In this case, the separated father of a student brought the […]
In the case of Sinclair Media III, Inc. v. Cincinnati, 2019-Ohio-2623, the Ohio Court of Claims held that specific text messages on privately-paid, personal cell phones of public officials were public records subject to a public records request. In this case, the public records requester sought specific text messages regarding a named city employee, between […]
In the case of Paule v. Woodmore Local Schools, 2019-Ohio-2625, the Ohio Court of Claims adopted a special master’s recommendation that the cell phone call/text message detail logs of several school district officials were not public records. In this case, an individual made a public records request seeking the call/text message detail logs of several […]
In the case of Geauga Cty. Probate/Juvenile Court v. Geauga Cty. Aud. Office, 2019-Ohio-2629, the Ohio Court of Claims adopted a special master’s report and recommendation that a judicial court may not make a public records request. This case involved a county probate court seeking financial documents from the county auditor’s office through a public […]
In the case of Burton v. Cleveland Hts. Univ. Hts. Bd. of Edn., 6th Cir. No. 18-3595, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 19499 (June 27, 2019), the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a parent was not entitled to attorney fees without showing that the child was a “child with a disability” under […]
In the case of Piazza v. Cuyahoga Cty., Slip Opinion No. 2019-Ohio-2499, the Ohio Supreme Court held that statutory immunity does not apply to former public employees so long as the alleged conduct is relative to a matter that arose out of the employment relationship. In this case, a local newspaper reported that a county […]