# City of Kettering v. State Employment Relations Board

> Ohio Supreme Court · August 20, 1986 · 26 Ohio St. 3d 50

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6759486

## Case

- **Full name:** City of Kettering v. State Employment Relations Board
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** August 20, 1986
- **Citations:** 26 Ohio St. 3d 50; 26 Ohio B. 42; 496 N.E.2d 983; 1986 Ohio LEXIS 747
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Wright
- **Judges:** Brown, Celebrezze, Douglas, Holmes, Locher, Sweeney, Wright
- **Cited by:** 23 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the maintenance of stable employment relations between police officers and their employers was a matter of statewide concern

## Opinion text

Wright, J.,
dissenting. While I respectfully dissent from the results reached by the majority on the facts of this case, I wish to stress the narrow basis of my reasons. Kettering’s position is persuasive because of its clear and overriding interest in controlling its police command officers, which, in my view, falls within Kettering’s powers of local self-government under Section 3, Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution.
I believe that municipalities are entitled to deal directly with a limited number of command officers of its police force due to the necessarily paramilitary nature of such a municipal operation. To that extent today’s opinion is an incorrect result.

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