Public-records request for three years of e-mails to one account is overbroad, Eighth District rules
A new decision from the Eighth District Court of Appeals denied a reporter’s request for an order to produce three years of e-mails, finding it was too broad to be enforced. In State ex rel. Dissell v. City of Cleveland, decided last week, reporter Rachel Dissell requested access to every e-mail sent to the “Mayor’s […]
Cuyahoga housing agency must pay for refusing to produce killer cop’s personnel file
If you get a public-records request, you can’t just pretend it never happened. That means the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority could be paying thousands of dollars in fines and costs for ignoring a pair of requests from Ideastream. After CMHA officer James Griffiths shot and killed a black teenager near the King–Kennedy High Rise, reporter […]