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Ohio Supreme Court Orders Prison Official to Produce Public Records
Loaded on Jan. 9, 2020
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2020, page 61
Filed under:
Public Records.
Location:
Ohio.
by Matt Clarke
On August 20, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio granted in part and denied in part a prisoner’s pro se petition for a writ of mandamus to compel a prison official to provide him with records he had requested pursuant to Ohio’s public records act, R.C. 149.43. ...
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