Monday, Monday. It was great to see you all at the webinar last week. Unless you were too busy doing more important stuff like this. Fortunately, we are back to writing the Public Records Briefing, and you don’t need to listen to Mark and Ryan anymore. Well, until the next webinar. But that’s not for a couple of months, so you’re good for a little bit.
Let’s rock on!
Exceptions (a) through (aaa): R.C. 149.43(A)(1)(ww)
Moving through the exceptions, we’re getting closer to the end. However, as the General Assembly keeps adding exceptions, maybe we’ll never get there!
This week, we look at R.C. 149.43(A)(1)(ww), which protects an affidavit or confirmation letter submitted under R.C. 319.28. We know, you love getting a scavenger hunt from the General Assembly as much as we do.
R.C. 319.28 permits designated public service workers (think first responders!), former public service workers, or the spouses of either to ask the county auditor where they live to remove the name of the person filing from any publicly available database, such as the property tax list of the county or the real estate system in the county. R.C. 319.28 allows first responders to protect their privacy and stop bad guys from easily finding their home address. Instead of their names, the county auditor would put their initials in the system to hide their identity.