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Bill to require recordings of full parole board hearings gets committee airing
Summary
Sponsors said House Bill 31 would mandate electronic recording of full parole board hearings and classify them as public records, with other institutional hearings recorded but access limited to entitled parties; committee members pressed sponsors on costs, retention, victim privacy and enforcement.
Representative Merissa Humphrey (sponsor) told the Government Oversight Committee that House Bill 31 would require full board parole hearings to be electronically recorded and classified as public records under Ohio public-records law, and that victims and involved parties would be entitled to request access.
In sponsor testimony the bill author said current parole hearings are not transcribed or fully recorded in the way court proceedings are: "Under current law, parole board hearings are not required to be recorded or transcribed. Unlike official court proceedings ... the parole board currently only provides a summary digest of its hearings." The bill would make full-board hearings publicly accessible recordings, while institutional parole…
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