Access with Attitude

Name: Access with Attitude | An Advocate's Guide to Freedom of Information in Ohio
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An Advocate's Guide to Freedom of Information in Ohio

David Marburger Karl Idsvoog(Autor*in)

Ohio University Press

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Erschienen am 6. März 2011

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For those who find themselves in a battle for public records, Access with Attitude: An Advocate's Guide to Freedom of Information in Ohio is an indispensable weapon. First Amendment lawyer David Marburger and investigative journalist Karl Idsvoog have written a simply worded, practical guide on how to take full advantage of Ohio's so-called Sunshine Laws.
Journalists, law firms, labor unions, private investigators, genealogists, realty companies, banks, insurers-anyone who regularly needs access to publicly held information-will find this comprehensive and contentious guide to be invaluable. Marburger, who drafted many of the provisions that Ohio adopted in its open records law, and coauthor Idsvoog have been fighting for broader access to public records their entire careers. They offer field-tested tips on how to avoid "no," and advise readers on legal strategies if their requests for information go unmet. Step by step, they show how to avoid delays and make the law work.
Whether you're a citizen, a nonprofit organization, a journalist, or an attorney going after public records, Access with Attitude is an essential resource.

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"During my eight years as editor of Cleveland's Plain Dealer, I speed-dialed Marburger's phone number whenever an access problem loomed. Access with Attitude isn't quite that, but it's the next best thing. It belongs on every bookshelf
in Ohio."

"Access with Attitude is a practical and insightful guide for dealing with an issue that vexes journalists across the state: how to hold governments accountable. Marburger and Idsvoog have created a useful reference for those forced to play an increasingly costly and time-consuming game of hide-and-seek with the public's information." "Access with Attitude is not just a road map. It's more like a GPS, with pinpoint directions on the best way to get the records you need...and why you should not take 'no' for an answer." (WKRC-TV, Cincinnati) "Access with Attitude is a long-needed book that goes a long way toward leveling the playing field between governed and government. This valuable resource should find a home on the bookshelf-or e-reader-of journalists, public officials, lawyers who represent government clients and anyone with an interest in transparency." "Every Ohioan who cares about government and the public's right to know should read this book." "I am so pleased to have had the opportunity to read Access with Attitude. The legal advice is invaluable, but what sets the book apart are the practical tips. I recommend it to lawyers, publishers, editors reporters and anyone interested in government transparency." "Access with Attitude provides every citizen, every journalist, every lawyer and every government office with a clear and straightforward guide to making Ohio's Public Records Act work. Anyone who is contemplating making a request for government records will benefit from its clear and insightful suggestions. You'll write a better request and get the records you seek with greater speed and ease if you follow these authors' advice. If you are going to have one book about how to access government records in Ohio, then Marburger and Idsvoog's Access with Attitude is the one you want on your shelf."

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Intro
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Unlawful Obstacles: Conditions That Officials Can't Impose
1.1 You Don't Have to Divulge Information about Yourself
1.2 Agency Policies on Public Records Requests
Chapter 2. Fees and Other Conditions That Officials Can Impose
2.1 Conditions That Agencies Can Impose
2.2 Timing: When You Can and Can't See Public Records
2.3 Paying Money
2.4 Can the Agency Refuse to Allow You to Make the Copies Yourself?
2.5 Conditions for Receiving Copies of Public Records by Mail, E-mail, Fax, or Other Transmittal
Chapter 3. Strategies for Requesting Public Records
3.1 Make It Hard for Administrators to Blame You for Their Own Inaction
3.2 Put It in Writing
3.3 Order from the Menu If You Can
3.4 Ask for One Course at a Time, Not the Whole Meal
3.5 Ask to Inspect Now
Ask for Copies Later
3.6 Know Your Audience
3.7 Requests That Didn't Work
3.8 Requests That Did Work
3.9 More Tips for Phrasing Requests
3.10 Design Your Request with Judges in Mind
3.11 Beware of the Pitfalls of Asking for "Personnel Files" or "Personnel Records"
3.12 You Want Information, but You Should Ask for "Records"
3.13 Direct Your Request to the Supervisor of the Department with Control over the Records That You Want
3.14 Assert Your Right to Get Help
3.15 Identify Yourself, How the Agency Can Reach You, and (Usually) the Company You're Working For
3.16 Set Your Own Appointment
3.17 Always Ask for Legal Authority to Justify a Denial
3.18 Sample Written Request
Chapter 4. Electronic Public Records
4.1 You Have a Right to Inspect Electronic Public Records
4.2 You Have a Right to Get Electronic Copies
4.3 You Have a Right to Get "Deleted" Electronic Public Records
4.4 Tell the Agency Just How Reasonable Your Request Truly Is
4.5 Fees
4.6 Should You Buy the Agency a New Computer Program?
4.7 Can You Copy the Agency's Software?
4.8 Get the Field Layout
4.9 Are E-mails and Cell Phone Text Messages Public Records?
Chapter 5. How to Fight Delay and Denial without Suing
5.1 Timing Can Be Everything
5.2 What the Law Says about Timing
5.3 Lawful Reasons for Delay
5.4 Bogus Delay # 1: "It's a draft."
5.5 Bogus Delay # 2: "Mary is on vacation. You'll have to wait until she gets back."
5.6 Bogus Delay # 3: "We'll respond in eight days. That's our policy."
5.7 Bogus Delay # 4: "We route all public records requests through the law director."
5.8 Bogus Delay # 5: "We can't give you those records until we notify the employee named in them."
5.9 Diplomacy Matters
5.10 If Compromise Will Work, Negotiate
5.11 Try an End-Around
5.12 Lawful Reasons to Just Say No
5.13 Don't Surrender to Authoritative Tone
5.14 Bogus Denial # 1: "Those records are part of an investigation."
5.15 Bogus Denial # 2: "We can't release the name of a minor."
5.16 Bogus Denial # 3: "We promised confidentiality."
5.17 Bogus Denial # 4: County: "Get that from the city." City: "Get that from the county."
5.18 The Shell Game
5.19 Know Your Redaction Rights
Chapter 6. Law Enforcement Investigatory Records: Know the Limits of the Barrier That People Encounter Most
6.1 A Broad Exemption
6.2 First Limit: The Exemption Doesn't Apply If the Agency Isn't Trying to Enforce a Law
6.3 Second Limit: The Exemption Doesn't Apply to Employment Investigations
6.4 Third Limit: The Exemption Doesn't Apply When Investigators Are Trying to Determine Whether Someone Broke the Law
6.5 Fourth Limit: The Exemption Doesn't Apply to Police Incident Reports or Citizen Complaints
6.6 Fifth Limit: Only the Agency Conducting the Investigation Can Raise the Exemption, Not the Person Being Investigated
6.7 Sixth Limit: The Exemption Doesn't Apply to Records Collected by Investigators That Already Were Public Records
6.8 Seventh Limit: Although the Exemption Applies after an Investigation Ends, It Stops When a Prosecution Ends
6.9 Arrests and the Uncharged Suspect Exemption
6.10 What If the Uncharged Suspect's Identity Is Already Public Knowledge?
6.11 What If the Prosecutor Decides Against Prosecuting the Suspect?
6.12 Is Someone a Suspect If Authorities Conclude That No Crime Occurred?
Chapter 7. The Stealth Exemption
7.1 The Crux of the Stealth Exemption
7.2 The Statutory Definition of "Record"
7.3 The Ohio Supreme Court Transforms the Definition of "Record" into an Expanding Exemption
7.4 Records That Aren't "Records"
7.5 Rationale # 1 for Distinguishing Records from "Records": The Agency's Actual Use
7.6 Records "Received" by a Public Office-More about the "Actual Use" Rationale
7.7 Rationale # 2 for Distinguishing Records from "Records": Advancing Self-Governance
7.8 Rationale # 3 for Distinguishing Records from "Records": The Public Office Didn't Authorize the Public Employees to Do What They Did
7.9 Can Public Offices Really Keep Records That Aren't "Records"?
7.10 The Stealth Exemption Upsets the Historic Presumption of Open Records
7.11 Debunking the Agencies' Argument for the Stealth Exemption
Chapter 8. Privacy
8.1 Food to Some Is Poison to Others
8.2 Ohio's Constitutional Right of Privacy in Information
8.3 How the Constitutional Right to Informational Privacy Works in Ohio
8.4 Privacy and Identity Theft via Electronic Public Records
8.5 What about Embarrassing Information?
8.6 Can Public Offices Raise Constitutional Privacy Rights That Really Belong to Others?
8.7 Can You Overcome the Constitutional Privacy Objection by Cutting a Deal with a Public Office?
8.8 More on Public Records on the Internet: Statutory Privacy
8.9 Drivers Privacy Protection Act
8.10 Corporate "Privacy" and Trade Secrets
Chapter 9. Court Records
9.1 If Applied to Courts, the Public Records Act Could Close Much of What Is Open Routinely Today
9.2 Invoking the Public Records Act to Open Court Records May Win Individual Battles, but It Will Lose the War
9.3 Separation of Powers: Why the Public Records Act Can't Interfere with Court Orders and Court Records
9.4. The Inherent Power of Judges to Control the Openness of Records in Cases Before Them
9.5 The Common Law and the Constitution: The Real Sources of Your Right to See and Copy Court Records
9.6 The Ohio Supreme Court's Rules of Superintendence: Records Filed in Civil and Criminal Suits
9.7 Rules of Superintendence: Fees
9.8 Rules of Superintendence: Records Showing How Courts Manage Their Own Personnel and Budgets
9.9 Rules of Superintendence: Individual Court Policies
9.10 Rules of Superintendence: Access to Court Records in Bulk
9.11 Rules of Superintendence: Contractors That Store Records Electronically for the Courts
9.12 Rules of Superintendence: Court Records
Chapter 10. Privatizing Government
10.1 An Overview
10.2 What the Public Records Act Says about Privatized Government Services
10.3 "Person Responsible": How the Public Records Act Implicitly Addresses Privatized Government Services
10.4 A Person Responsible for Public Records versus a De Facto Public Office
10.5 Delegating Privatized Services: Person Responsible for Public Records
10.6 The Rise of the De Facto Public Office
10.7 Public Hospital Associations: The Beginning and Almost the End of the De Facto Public Office
10.8 The Functional-Equivalency Test and the De Facto End of the De Facto Public Office
10.9 The Dissenters' Critique of the Functional-Equivalency Test
10.10 The Lending of Aid and Credit and De Facto Public Offices
10.11 The Functional-Equivalency Test Doesn't Supplant the Mazzaro Theory
10.12 R.C. 149.431 Opens Privatized Records but Doesn't Supplant Any Ground for Applying the Public Records Act to Privatized Services
Chapter 11. Records Retention: Limits on Administrators' Discretion to Destroy Records
11.1 State Agencies Must Have Schedules Mandating How Long They Have to Keep Their Records
11.2 County Records Commissions
11.3 Municipal Records Commissions
11.4 Township Records Commissions
11.5 School District Records Commissions
11.6 Limits on an Agency's Discretion to Control What Its Records Retention Schedule Says
11.7 What If the Retention Schedule Doesn't Cover Some of the Agency's Records?
11.8 What If the Retention Schedule Allows the Agency to Destroy the Hard Copies, but Doesn't Mention Electronic Duplicates?
11.9 What If an Agency Destroys Public Records Before Its Records Retention Schedule Says It's Okay?
11.10 What If an Agency's Union Contract Requires It to Destroy Records Before the Records Retention Schedule Says It's Okay?
11.11 What If an Agency Destroys Records Before Alerting the Public about It?
11.12 If an Agency Unlawfully Destroys or Damages Records, Who Can Sue for What?
11.13 Is a Public Office Liable for Unlawfully Destroying Records That Are Not Public Records Because They Are Exempt?
11.14 What If Destroying a Public Record Was an Accident?
11.15 Kish v. City of Akron: The Windfall
11.16 Time Limit for Suing an Agency That Unlawfully Destroys a Public Record
11.17 All Things Do Not Come to Those Who Wait
11.18 Where to Sue an Agency for Unlawfully Destroying Records
Chapter 12. Suing for Access to Public Records and Winning
12.1 What to Expect in Time and Money If You Sue
12.2 Which Court to Choose
12.3 How to Avoid Wasting Your Legal Dollars
12.4 Don't Threaten to Sue Unless You Will Sue
12.5 Orchestrate Your Suit
12.6 If You Abuse It, We'll Lose It
12.7 Demand and Default: What Must Happen Before You Sue
12.8 Quirks of Mandamus: Compliance Now versus Compliance in the Future
12.9 More Quirks of Mandamus: Disputes of Fact
12.10 Even More Quirks of Mandamus: Clear Legal Right and Clear Legal Duty
12.11 The Availability of Adequate Alternative Remedies Is Irrelevant
12.12 Surprise: Exemptions Aren't Affirmative Defenses
12.13 In Camera Inspection
12.14 Winning Attorneys' Fees: Before September 2007
12.15 Winning Attorneys' Fees: After September 2007
12.16 The Well-Informed Public Office Test
12.17 The Code of Professional Responsibility and Attorneys' Fees
12.18 What If the Agency Releases the Records After You've Sued but Before the Court Rules?
12.19 Courts Won't Award Fees Unless You'll Owe Fees
12.20 Statutory Damages
12.21 Agencies' Preemptive Strikes: Suing You for Requesting Public Records
Chapter 13. Counsel for Counsel: The Public Records Act and Discovery
13.1 Civil Discovery and the Public Records Act
13.2 Criminal Discovery and the Public Records Act
13.3 Distinguishing the Steckman When Deciding the Gilbert Case
Conclusion
Appendixes
1 Ohio Public Records Act
2 Definition of "Record" and Other Definitions Used in the Public Records Act
3 Unlawful Destruction of Records
4 R.C. 149.40
5 Contracts and Financial Records of Nonprofit Organizations
6 Removing Personal Information from Public Records Posted on the Internet
7 Peace Officers and Public Safety Officials May Get Names Redacted from County Property Records
8 Definition of "Electronic Record"
9 Ohio's Driver's Privacy Protection Act
Notes
Index
Table of Cases
About the Authors

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