Stewart v. Lockland School Dist. Bd. of Edn. (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} The issue in this case is whether Ohio’s Open Meetings Act, R.C. 121.22, required appellee, the Lockland School District Board of Education (“Lockland”), to hold the pretermination hearing of appellant, Adam Stewart, in public. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that it did not. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals, which affirmed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Lockland.

Background

{¶ 2} Lockland received notice from the Ohio Department of Education that district employees had improperly reported false student-attendance data to…