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Law director reports caseloads, budget and pending litigation to council
Summary
Law Director provided an Ohio Revised Code–required annual report: Athens County Municipal Court filings totaled 8,057 in the year (1,398 criminal; 6,419 traffic; 240 OVI), the law office budget was $757,352, and pending civil litigation items include East State Street Development with a 2026-01-12 filing deadline and mediation in another case by 2026-02-19.
Law Director Lisa Eliasson delivered the office’s required annual report, explaining the office’s civil and criminal responsibilities, caseload statistics for the year, budget figures and pending civil litigation.
Eliasson said the office prosecutes misdemeanors for the city and certain county unincorporated areas under the Ohio Revised Code and provided case counts as of the report cutoff:…
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