WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered a
private college and a student journalist to try to resolve the
student’s lawsuit asking the college to turn over arrest records and
other information.
Anna Schiffbauer, editor of a news website at
Otterbein College in the Columbus suburb of Westerville, contends the
college police department is a public office covered by the state’s
open-records laws.
Student journalists at the liberal-arts college
have battled Otterbein over the release of records since the campus
security force became a full-fledged police department of
state-certified officers in 2011.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor ordered mediation in the case Tuesday.
Otterbein
has argued it is exempt from public-records laws as a private
institution and federal law requires it to protect certain information
about students from release.
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WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered a
private college and a student journalist to try to resolve the
student’s lawsuit asking the college to turn over arrest records and
other information.
Anna Schiffbauer, editor of a news website at
Otterbein College in the Columbus suburb of Westerville, contends the
college police department is a public office covered by the state’s
open-records laws.
Student journalists at the liberal-arts college
have battled Otterbein over the release of records since the campus
security force became a full-fledged police department of
state-certified officers in 2011.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor ordered mediation in the case Tuesday.
Otterbein
has argued it is exempt from public-records laws as a private
institution and federal law requires it to protect certain information
about students from release.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.