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- 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.