A BIG Change from the Supreme Court and More!
Ohio Public Records Briefing - Edition #92
A Supreme Court Stunner?
It’s bigger news than even this big event!
Fresh off the major changes in the budget, we want to put another potential change on your radar from the Ohio Supreme Court. A couple of weeks ago, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that communications made on private devices (such as private email or cell phones) aren’t kept by the office and aren’t public records. This decision would overturn several cases and would be yet another BIG change in the last year or so.
However, we haven’t said anything yet because there’s a pending motion for reconsideration in the Supreme Court and the court could decide to change its mind. Any decision on that motion should happen within the next few weeks. You can read how the media is reacting to this case here.
Keep reading your Public Records Briefing to learn about more of these kind of developments as they happen!
Exceptions A through (aaa): 149.43 (rr)
The General Assembly has taken our Public Records Briefing section title “About (a) to (zz)” and ruined it. Booooo! With the budget bill passed into law, R.C. 149.43 is now onto (aaa) as the last exception and it’s likely we’re going to get more. The exception we’re talking about today is (rr), one that was recently created when the General Assembly wrote the new Marsy’s Law victim protections into the law.