Case stems from public records requests on COVID-19 deaths
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The case came before the court after former Columbus Dispatch Reporter Randy Ludlow filed a public records request with the Ohio Department of Health asking for a spreadsheet of data from the Electronic Death Reporting System regarding deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ludlow submitted another request in January 2021 for “a copy of the Electronic Death Reporting System database – in digital spreadsheet form – of all death certificates delivered to the department from March 1, 2020, to Jan. 26, 2021, by all local health departments in the state.”
Ludlow’s appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court pointed to the fact that death information is public record when contained in an autopsy under state laws regulating the practice, and noted that “the Court of Claims recognized, and the Tenth District did not dispute, that any information contained in a certified Ohio death certificate is public record within the meaning of 149.43, including decedents’ personal identifying information, such as their birth date and name.
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