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Marsy's Law, a sort-of victims' bill of rights, is at the core of two cases over whether cities have to disclose police officers' identities.

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled 5-2 on a lawsuit from a now-retired journalist who filed requests for that data while tracking COVID in 2020 and 2021.

Over the past few years, police departments across the country have grappled with what to do when a video in their possession captures the use of deadly force by a police officer.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has often spoken about the need for state agencies and office holders to follow the state's "Public Records Act," but now…

Activists say the White House has failed to keep notes of the president's meetings with foreign leaders, and that immigration records could be destroyed.

The official elected as the state’s accountability watchdog is creating a new program to encourage better open records policies among local governments,...

Many local and state government records must be provided, upon request, to the public. When there is a dispute over whether records are public, involved…

Citations for public records violations statewide dipped by about 20 percent in 2017.The state auditor’s office is releasing its year in review report…

Two-thirds of the members of the Ohio House have sponsored a bipartisan bill that would ban photos, videos and digital media of victims of sexually…

An attorney representing newspapers that sued for unredacted autopsy reports of a southern Ohio massacre is criticizing a court ruling shielding those…