State ex rel. Ziegler v. Ohio Dept. of Pub. Safety (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} Appellant, Irm Ziegler, pro se, filed an original action in mandamus in the Eleventh District Court of Appeals, asserting claims regarding a public-records request she had made of appellee Ohio Department of Public Safety (“ODPS”). The court of appeals granted summary judgment to ODPS and appellees Thomas P. Charles, the director of ODPS, and Jacqueline Baumann, a legal intern with ODPS, and dismissed the petition for mandamus. The court of appeals subsequently denied Ziegler’s application for reconsideration and en banc consideration.

{¶2} For the reasons that follow, we affirm the…