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

No. 93-2012.

70 Ohio St.3d 605 (1994)

THE STATE EX REL. BEACON JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY ET AL., APPELLEES, v. CITY OF AKRON ET AL., APPELLANTS.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided October 26, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roetzel & Andress, Ronald S. Kopp and Amie L. Bruggeman, for appellees.

Max Rothal, Director of Law, and Deborah M. Forfia, Assistant Director of Law, for appellants.

Paul R.Q. Wolfson and David C. Vladeck, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Public Citizen Litigation Group.

Mare Rotenberg and David L. Sobel, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

PFEIFER, J.

We are asked to determine whether the city is obligated to provide the ABJ with the SSNs of approximately two thousand five hundred city employees pursuant to Ohio's public records statute. For the following reasons, we find that disclosure of this information is not required.

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The city and Sowa contend that they are not obligated to provide the SSNs because they are not "records" for purposes of the Public Records Act. We disagree....

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