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$1,000 Award to Ohio Prisoner for Violation of Public Records Act
Loaded on Aug. 1, 2021
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2021, page 27
The Ohio Supreme Court concluded that an official at Toledo Correctional Institution (TCI) violated the Ohio Public Records Act by failing to identify all records requested by a prisoner. In addition to ordering relief for the prisoner to obtain the records, the court awarded the prisoner $1,000 in statutory damages. …
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