Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine

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10/26/2011

Requester’s Right to Obtain Copies on Medium of Choice

Under Ohio’s Public Records Act, a person who seeks public records from a government office has the choice of inspecting those records, or obtaining copies.1 If the requester opts for copies, he or she must then choose whether to receive the records (1) on paper, (2) on the same medium as the public office keeps them, or (3) on any other medium upon which the public office determines the records can “reasonably be duplicated as an integral part of the normal operations of the public office.”2

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