STATE EX REL. BEACON JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. v. UNIVERSITY OF AKRON

No. 80-1144.

64 Ohio St. 2d 392 (1980)

THE STATE, EX REL. BEACON JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO., APPELLEE, v. UNIVERSITY OF AKRON, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided December 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Roetzal & Andress and Mr. Norman S. Carr, for appellee.

Messrs. Parms, Purnell & Stubbs and Mr. Edwin L. Parms, for appellant.


PAUL W. BROWN, J.

Appellant raises three propositions of law in this appeal. The university first contends that: "Police and other law enforcement investigatory records compiled before January 18, 1980, the effective date of the amendment of R. C. 149.43, are not `public records' within the meaning of that section." We disagree.

In Wooster Republican Printing Co. v. Wooster, supra (

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