Public records

What we have asked the city for

Ohio’s public records law gives anyone the right to see how their city works. These are the requests we have filed, and where each one stands. We publish them because a request that nobody can see is a request the city can quietly ignore.

0 still waiting on the city for Proposed Development

0 fulfilled

0 published in total

Catch all for any developments that catch our eye.

Nothing published under this heading yet.

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.