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Council adopts information‑sharing agreement allowing law department access to LEADS
Summary
Defiance City Council voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance authorizing an information‑sharing agreement with the Ohio Department of Public Safety to allow the city law department access to the Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEADS); council emphasized contractual protections for signatories and noted LEADS had been used previously.
Defiance City Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted an ordinance authorizing the city law director and the chief of police to execute an information‑sharing agreement granting the law department access to the Law Enforcement Automated Data System, known as LEADS.
Law Director O'Donnell told the council that LEADS is administered by the Ohio Department of Public Safety and “is a tool for our law enforcement agencies to view the prior criminal history, prior criminal records of a defendant or…
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