State Ex Rel. Beacon Journal Publishing Co. v. Radel

Gwin, Presiding Judge.

On March 30,1990, relator, the Beacon Journal Publishing Company, sought to inspect, pursuant to R.C. 149.43, all criminal records that Judge Virgil Musser of the Massillon Municipal Court sealed between the years of 1983 and 1989 to determine whether the records were sealed in conformity with R.C. Chapter 2953. Respondents, Edward Radel, Jr., Clerk of the Massillon Municipal Court, and Judge Richard T. Kettler, Presiding Judge of the Massillon Municipal Court, refused the inspection on the basis that the release of the records under circumstances where purported orders…