The Inmate Lawsuit With a $3,000 Price Tag
Ohio Public Records Briefing - Edition #120
In this issue, we’re looking at another 2026 Ohio Supreme Court case. This one comes with a $3,000 price tag and a lesson about how quickly separate requests stack up into separate damage awards. From there we head to Phoenix, Arizona, for body camera footage of a death in police custody, and we look at why the department released what it did and what Ohio law would say about the same video. We close with a reader question about a 9-1-1 dispatch center that records every phone line, all the time, and what happens when a records request scoops up conversations nobody expected to see the light of day.
Also, our next subscriber-only webinar is coming up. We’re going to spend some time talking about the controversial thing that just won’t go away: Flock cameras! We’ll talk about some popular records requests that are going around and how we think you can respond to them. Details at the bottom of the article.