State ex rel. Pietrangelo v. Avon Lake (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} Relator, James Pietrangelo II, submitted a public-records request to the records clerk for the police department of the city of Avon Lake. Pietrangelo claims that he personally hand-delivered to the clerk a written public-records request on December 30, 2014, and that the department was completely unresponsive to the request until Pietrangelo filed this lawsuit in February 2015 against respondents, the city of Avon Lake and Duane Streator, the Avon Lake police chief. The department asserts that although Pietrangelo verbally requested an incident report and other records on December 30…