Ohio Supreme Court Hears Public Records Argument

Ohio law says if a government agency illegally destroys public records and that keeps an “aggrieved” citizen from seeing them, that citizen may collect a thousand dollars for each violation. The City of New Philadelphia admits it illegally destroyed recordings of daily police radio calls from the 1970’s, 80’s, and 90’s, but it’s fighting a claim by one citizen that he is now owed millions of dollars. The case has big money implications, and it’s just been argued in the Ohio Supreme Court. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports on the oral arguments.