recognizing that public bodies should be trusted with some latitude in preparation of minutes of their proceedings and that even “abstracts of the discussions indicating the identity of the speakers and the chronology and substance of their statements” are legitimate means of satisfying Ohio’s Sunshine Law and Public Records Acts
How later courts described this case
- recognizing that public bodies should be trusted with some latitude in preparation of minutes of their proceedings and that even “abstracts of the discussions indicating the identity of the speakers and the chronology and substance of their statements” are legitimate means of satisfying Ohio’s Sunshine Law and Public Records Acts
- Minutes of any meeting of a public body besides properly called executive sessions “certainly should not be limited to a mere recounting of the body’s roll call votes”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Pfeifer, J.,
concurring in part and dissenting in part. I dissent only from the majority’s holding that an award of attorney fees is proper in this case.