- legal
- public-records
- transparency
A public-records request (PRR) asks a public office to produce records under Ohio's Public Records Act (R.C. 149.43). When an office withholds or fails to produce responsive records, the statutory remedy is a writ of mandamus — a court order compelling production (and, in some cases, statutory damages).
The mandamus thread is the lever that pries loose otherwise withheld material: the withholding map, the source instruments, and the production analyses sit under the legal-history section. The records it produced are what the structured extractions and the entity graph are built on — which is why the common-control plumbing read from them is only as complete as the production was.
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Open questions
- The project's cost-benefit analysis is withheld
- Pursue outstanding PRR records: item 4 cost-benefit + items 5-15 county wastewater universe
- Track the disposition of the Level-2 wetland permit DSW401252260W (incomplete 2025-12-23)
- Acquire the corridor environmental records (forcemain + Shawnee II Ph2 NPDES/SWPPP/ESC; item-9 MGD) — the #151 referral