Court Rules Alleged Sex Abuse Victim Entitled to Redacted Copies of Police Records from Investigation

The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled today that some of the investigatory records compiled or accessed by the Guernsey County Sheriff’s Office during its investigation of a 2008 complaint alleging sexual abuse of a child by a priest in the 1990s are not exempt from disclosure under the Ohio Public Records Act, and those documents must therefore be provided in redacted form to the person who filed the complaint.

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