STATE EX REL. REA v. OHIO DEPT. OF EDN.

No. 96-1997.

81 Ohio St.3d 527 (1998)

THE STATE EX REL. REA ET AL. v. OHIO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ET AL.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided April 29, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melnick & Melnick and Robert R. Melnick, for relators.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Roger F. Carroll, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent Ohio Department of Education.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Lawrence J. Miltner and Lauren M. Ross, Assistant Attorneys General; Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur and Kathleen M. Trafford, for respondent Ohio State University.


FRANCIS E. SWEENEY, SR., J.

This court is presented with the issue of whether previously administered examinations of the OPT and OVCA are public records subject to disclosure under Ohio's open records law, R.C. 149.43. Since we find that both the OPT and a portion of the OVCA, specifically the OCAP, are public records, we grant relators a limited writ of mandamus and order the Ohio Department of Education and Ohio State University to release the requested materials...

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