State ex rel. Cincinnati Post v. City of Cincinnati

We hold that the Cincinnati City Council’s back-to-back meetings, which, taken together, were attended by a majority of council members, violated the provisions of R.C. 121.22, that the dictates of R.C. 121.22 are applicable to Cincinnati City Council, and that the Cincinnati Post is entitled to its requested relief.

Ohio’s “Sunshine Law,” R.C. 121.22, requires that public officials, when meeting to consider official business, conduct those meetings in public. The statute reads:

“(A) This section shall be liberally construed to require public officials to take official action and to conduct all…