STATE EX REL. SCHIFFBAUER v. BANASZAK

No. 2014-0244.

142 Ohio St.3d 535 (2015)

2015-Ohio-1854

THE STATE EX REL. SCHIFFBAUER v. BANASZAK ET AL.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided May 21, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Graydon, Head & Ritchey, L.L.P., and John C. Greiner, for relator.

Bricker & Eckler, L.L.P., Richard S. Lovering,   Anne Marie Sferra, and Warren I. Grody, for respondents.

Michael DeWine, Attorney General, and Jeffery W. Clark, Assistant Attorney General, urging granting of the writ for amicus curiae Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine.


{¶ 1} This mandamus action asks us to determine whether the Otterbein University police department is a public office for purposes of R.C. 149.43, Ohio's Public Records Act. Relator, Anna Schiffbauer, a news editor for a campus publication, requested records documenting the department's exercise of a government function.<...

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