Ohio Politics

Court asked to void suit aiming to bar gun permits

3:09pm Friday, May 07, 2004
You heard it here first.... May 07, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Columbus- Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to stop sheriffs from issuing applications for concealed-handgun permits. The Toledo-based Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence filed the suit just a week after the new concealed-handgun law went into effect April 8. The...

Northwest Ohio Legislators To Host Concealed Carry Forums

3:29pm Friday, April 23, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE State Representative Steve Buehrer (R-Delta) announced today that he and State Senator Lynn Wachtmann (R-Napoleon) will host a series of educational forums on Ohio’s new concealed carry law. The educational forums will be held April 29th in Defiance, May 5th in Findlay and May 6th in Ottawa. All meetings will start at 7 p.m. “The goal of these forums is to educate the public...

Record number of Ohio convicts released in 2003

1:01pm Wednesday, April 21, 2004
According to the Columbus Dispatch article RELEASE Re-entry REHABILITATION , a record 27,721 inmates — 90 percent of them men — released from Ohio prisons last year. The number was triggered by an overhaul of criminal-sentencing laws, more-lenient parole policies and increased diversions to community corrections programs. More than 9,100 former inmates — one out of three released last year — are...

The Truth Is Out There

11:37pm Tuesday, April 13, 2004
by Chad D. Baus As I stood in the lobby at the Sheriff's office, waiting for my photograph to be taken, my attention was drawn to a large rack of informational brochures. There, among the advice about not driving drunk, just saying no to drugs, and gun safety pamphlets, was an interesting little tri-fold from the Ohio Attorney General, entitled "Shedding Light on Rural Crime". It starts like this...

Rep. Niehaus nips Rep. Schmidt by 22 votes for White’s Senate seat

6:14pm Monday, April 12, 2004
April 10, 2004 Columbus Dispatch State Rep. Tom Niehaus has won the narrowest primary contest for the state Senate in memory, besting fellow Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt by 22 votes out of more than 34,000 cast for the 14th District nomination in southern Ohio. A recount yesterday in Scioto County showed no change in the official count in the March 2 primary, giving Niehaus the edge. Earlier,...

Jim Irvine's Writ Of Mandamus Court Documents

2:02am Saturday, April 10, 2004
We told you on Thursday that Jim Irvine filed suit in the Ohio Supreme Court seeking a Writ of Mandamus against Cuyahoga County Sheriff McFaul. Ohio's new concealed carry law provides for Temporary Emergency Licenses , or a TEL. However, you can only obtain a TEL from your county Sheriff, not adjacent county Sheriffs. With the loss of Ohio's affirmative defenses and no method to obtain a TEL,...

Ohio Attorney General's office emails constituents re: reported sheriffs' delays

12:53pm Thursday, April 01, 2004
Wed, 31 Mar 2004 Mark Gribben Director of Constituent Services Office of Attorney General Jim Petro Thank you for your message on the difficulty you are having with the County Sheriffs. Unfortunately, our office doesn't have the legal authority to compel the sheriffs to make the applications process easy, although we have taken all possible steps to make it as simple as possible for them. The...

Taft supports not ''stigmatizing'' ex-cons; insisted on stigmatizing CHL-holders

6:52am Thursday, April 01, 2004
Sickening. Gov. Bob Taft has no problem with making it harder for the public to obtain information on persons who have broken the laws he is sworn to protect. Yet in a last-ditch attempt to kill HB12 last November, he began insisting that law-abiding citizens who obtain concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) have their privacy violated, and their identities available to the public. No mention of a...

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