House Bill 291 permits counties, townships, municipal corporations, school districts, community schools, and libraries to use an “employee dishonesty and faithful performance of duty insurance policy” in place of surety bonds. This insurance policy can cover any specified officers, employees, and appointees that would traditionally be covered by a surety bond – e.g., superintendents and […]
On December 18, 2018, the Federal Commission on School Safety (“FCSS”) issued a report and recommendations to the President of the United States regarding the FCSS’s study on how to improve safety of students and educators at educational institutions. The FCSS was created by the Trump Administration in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High […]
In the case of Doe v. Jackson Local Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., N.D. Ohio No. 5:17-cv-1931, an Ohio federal district court held that a school board and several of its employees are immune from liability where a student sexually harassed another student on a school bus because the school board and its employees had no […]
In the case of Krouse v. Ohio State Univ., 2018-Ohio-5014, an Ohio Court of Claims adopted a special master’s findings that personally identifiable information cannot be redacted and records must be withheld in their entirety when the a public records requester already knows the identity of the student whom the records relate. Additionally, when a request is made […]
In the case of United Elec. Radio & Machine Workers of Am. v. Highland Local School Dist. Bd. of Edn., 2018-Ohio-5307, an Ohio appellate court held that a school board may non-renew non-teaching employees with or without cause absent collective bargaining language stating otherwise. This case involved two non-teaching employees hired on limited one-year contracts. At […]
In the case of Heisig v. MetroHealth Sys., 2018-Ohio-4925, the Ohio Court of Claims adopted a special master’s recommendation that public records previously filed under seal with a judicial court must still be provided pursuant to a public records request absent a specific exemption. In this case, a public office denied a public record request for […]