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Public commenter accuses North Ridgeville law department of withholding records, urges Sunshine Law training
Summary
At the March 16 North Ridgeville City Council meeting, resident Robert Baumgartner alleged the law department is obstructing public-records requests — including bid scoring sheets and a 2023 police workplace survey — and asked the mayor to mandate Ohio Sunshine Law training for department heads; council granted Baumgartner an extra three minutes to speak.
Robert Baumgartner told the North Ridgeville City Council on March 16 that the city's law department is obstructing public-records requests and called for mandated public-records training.
Baumgartner, identified by the clerk as a written submitter, told the council that his November request for request-for-proposal documents and bid-scoring sheets for major vendors 'some of whom he said have been campaign donors to the mayor' has gone unanswered. He said the law department had told the public the office helps citizens…
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