Records requests about the city's use of public money and staff time on messaging.
Open
The city still has these.
The City attorney has said they have "a thousand" open record requests on the record at meetings. How are these numbered, how many are really open? Our math suggests a maximum of 283 but only if ZERO have been filled since mid May.
Submitted
Filed October 16, 2026
Waiting
1 days
under 2 weeks
City reference GCO-477-2026
City PR and Opposition
Any discussion regarding establishing a list of "champions" as shown on the MurphyEpson invoices
Submitted
Filed September 17, 2026
Waiting
30 days
4 to 6 weeks
Property "Champions"
City reference GCO-416-2026
DataCenters
City PR and Opposition
Asked for any city communication mentioning the survey platform Qualtrics, for a survey sent around September 13, 2026.
Submitted
Filed September 14, 2026
Waiting
33 days
4 to 6 weeks
Property Qualtrics Survey
City reference GCO-403-2026
DataCenters
City PR and Opposition
Asked for records regarding a PR firm that was doing some work against Issue 28, to establish if the city has had any dealings with that firm.
Submitted
Filed September 14, 2026
Waiting
33 days
4 to 6 weeks
Property Tim Turner/TRM Services
City reference GCO-410-2026
DataCenters
City PR and Opposition
Asked for records related to creation, review, printing (estimates, payments) regarding city funded mailer regarding Community Consent Amendment.
Submitted
Filed September 9, 2026
Waiting
38 days
4 to 6 weeks
Property Anti-CCA Mailer
City reference GCO-387-2026
DataCenters
City PR and Opposition
Completed
Fulfilled or denied. The city has finished with these.
Wright Graphic Design Invoices to the City for CCA/Issue 28 printing/postage/bulk mailing
Fulfilled
Filed October 13, 2026
Closed October 14, 2026
Property Wright Graphic Design Invoices to the City for CCA/Issue 28 printing/postage/bulk mailing
City reference GCO-470-2026
DataCenters
City PR and Opposition
MurphyEpson Invoices - Sept 2026
Fulfilled
Filed October 13, 2026
Property MurphyEpson Invoices - Sept 2026
City reference GCO-469-2026
DataCenters
City PR and Opposition
Wright Graphic Design Invoices to the City
Fulfilled
Filed September 24, 2026
Property Wright Graphic Design Invoices to the City
City reference GCO-426-2026
DataCenters
City PR and Opposition
All invoices received by the City of Grove City from MurphyEpson, Inc. for the period of March 1, 2026 through September 14, 2026.
Fulfilled
Filed September 14, 2026
Closed September 23, 2026
Property MurphyEpson Invoices
City reference GCO-402-2026
DataCenters
City PR and Opposition
How this works
Under R.C. 149.43 anyone can ask a
public office for its records. The office has to hand them over within a
reasonable time. The law does not put a number on “reasonable,”
which is exactly why we publish how long each one has been sitting.
When a request goes unanswered, the next step is a complaint with the Ohio
Court of Claims under R.C. 2743.75. It costs $25 to file and the office
gets three business days to produce the records before the case moves
forward. Any case we have filed is linked above.
Not everything we have filed is listed here. Some requests stay internal
while they are live. You are welcome to file your own: the city’s
clerk takes them, and you do not have to say why you want them.