“Irrespective of whether the court of appeals based its judgment on the content of the video alone or on the prosecutor’s narrative description of the video’s content, however, the video does not by itself establish that it contains information directly used for protecting or maintaining the security of a public office against attack, interference, or
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What’s On Their Minds: Is the Associated Press Entitled to the Security Camera Footage of the Shooting of a Common Pleas Court Judge?Andrew Welsh-Huggins v. Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Jefferson County, Ohio.
By Marianna Bettman on
Update: On November 24, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“What would be the competent evidence that you would require under this statute?”
Justice Donnelly, to counsel for Welsh-Huggins
“If I were a bystander near the courthouse that day would I have been…