The City of Toledo sued the State of Ohio, seeking a temporary and permanent injunction to prevent Ohio’s new traffic camera legislation, SB 342 ,from going into effect. (See Toledo Blade, Toledo sues over traffic camera ban). SB 342 requires that a police officer be present when a traffic camera is in operation, making traffic […]
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The Marijuana Legalization Amendment, submitted by ResponsibleOhio,was certified by the Ohio Attorney General. This is the marijuana amendment proposing ten designated growing areas owned by campaign investors. Next, the proposed amendment goes to the Ohio Ballot Board, to determine whether the amendment contains a single issue or multiple issues. If it passes muster, ResponsibleOhio
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According to its Facebook and Twitter, the OCMC’s Education, Public Institutions, and Local Government Committee voted to leave the language in the Ohio Constitution requiring a “thorough and efficient system of public education” intact. The vote occurred at a committee meeting today. The Committee considered removing this wording because, as proponents argued, it provides an
The Ohio Supreme Court held that a Lodi zoning ordinance deprives mobile-home park owners of their due process rights under the Ohio and U.S. Constitutions. The ordinance involved mobile parks in areas where current zoning prohibits mobile homes, but the mobile parks existed before the zoning prohibiting them, so they are grandfathered in. This is
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If you are interested in addressing any of the committees please contact Steven C. Hollon, Executive Director of the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission at 614.644.2022. The following meetings will take place on Thursday, March 12, 2015: 9:30 a.m. Education Public Institutions, and Local Government Committee – Room 017 of the Ohio Statehouse. Will discuss the
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For those of you who missed Dean Emeritus Steven H. Steinglass‘s talk yesterday, The History and Future of the Ohio Constitution, here is the video. In addition to a look at the history of the Ohio Constitution from pre-Statehood to the present, Professor Steinglass discussed some of the current issues before the Ohio Constitution Modernization
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The City of Akron filed a lawsuit in order to stop recent traffic camera legislation from going into effect. SB 342 requires that a police officer be present when a traffic camera is in operation, making traffic cameras economically infeasible for most cities. The new law also creates procedural requirements and states that motorists can
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Yesterday, H.J.R. 2, a proposal to revise the redistricting process for congressional districts, was introduced in the Ohio House. The proposal would, via new language added to the Ohio Constitution, create an independent Ohio Redistricting Commission and take the redistricting process out of the hands of the state legislature. The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard
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ResponsibleOhio filed revised a Marijuana Legalization Amendment Initiative Petition (PDF) with the Ohio Attorney General. The Attorney General rejected the group’s previously submitted amendment, finding that the summary was not a fair and truthful representation of the proposed amendment. ResponsibleOhio planned to file revised language anyway, to allow adults to grow a limited number of
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A brief was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Ohio petitioners seeking recognition in Ohio of their valid out-of-state same-sex marriages. The petitioners contend that the State of Ohio must list them as parents on their children’s birth certificates and recognize the spouse on death certificates if one partner dies. Petitioners