... Unfortunately, despite the Sunshine Law, some officials might resist providing public records for any of a variety of reasons on a spectrum from the petty and personal to the potential for hiding public corruption, mismanagement, waste or fraud.
The Sunshine Law requires that the records be made public, but the law has no teeth to bite the hand that wants to hold back public records from the public.
That situation would change dramatically if Ohio lawmakers enact a proposed bill, H.B. 9, to put enforcement muscle into the Sunshine Law. The bill was introduced by Rep. Scott Oelslager, R-Canton. ...
The need for a tougher Sunshine Law was demonstrated last year. That's when only half the requests for public records were properly fulfilled in an audit conducted in all 88 counties by the Ohio Coalition for Open Government, a watchdog on public records and open meetings issues ...
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