Ohio Education Update; Public Records RequestsMichael L. Sharb
The government of Ohio is very particular when it comes to public records. In fact, they have both the offline and online documentation of records to facilitate what the residents would prefer to go through when doing the request. Anyone can either visit the State’s Vital Statistics Office in...
Indictment records are open to the public in Ohio. This means that anyone can request to see them, as long as they have enough information to identify the correct record. Indictment records are handled by the county courts, and thus the procedure to request records are slightly different in e...
See Chapter 3 of the Ohio Attorney General’s Yellow Book. If a records request is denied, the police department must provide the requester with “an explanation, including legal authority, setting forth why the request was denied.” R.C. 149.43(B)(3). What if the request is very broad...
A public records request is a formal application submitted by an individual or organization seeking access to information held by government agencies. Laws like the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the United States give the public the right to ask for access to federal agency records or inf...
West Virginia public records law includes a response time of five days to response to a records request. If the request is difficult, the government has to notify you about the delay, and you are allowed to appeal the delay if they do not provide you with the information you need. ...
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Stories included crime data analysis, court records and scrutinization of the sometimes-inconsistent sentencing guidelines carried out by lawmakers. All TEGNA news operations across the country produced investigations on how child sex trafficking was affecting their local community. The series is now being...
The Denver Post‘s editorial page team is tightening its requirements for contributed articles after an open-records request identified that a lobbyist actually wrote a column submitted under the name of the mayor of Pueblo. A freak lightning strike in Jackson County, Colo., east of Steamboat Spr...
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