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Resident tells North Ridgeville council dozens of records requests unresolved, alleges police workplace problems
Summary
At the Feb. 17 North Ridgeville City Council meeting, resident Rob Baumgartner said more than a dozen public-records requests remain unfilled and alleged a hostile work environment in the police department, citing a command-climate survey he says was withheld; officials did not provide a substantive response during the meeting.
Rob Baumgartner told North Ridgeville City Council on Feb. 17 that the city has not fulfilled “over 12 outstanding records requests” pertaining to the police department and alleged a sustained hostile work environment for veteran officers.
Baumgartner said a command-climate survey had been delivered to the mayor, the law director and city council and that the mayor “admitted the results were disturbing,” but the law director later denied a public-records request for the survey. “They absurdly…
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