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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Cuyahoga County and Other Jurisdictions Don’t Live Up to Sunshine Law , Ohio Auditor Says

Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 7:25 PM

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Ohio Auditor Dave Yost says a test of 20 counties and cities from different areas of the state shows about 40 percent are not fully following Ohio’s Sunshine law.

"I would say I was disappointed,” he said. “You know, transparency has become such a watch word for local government and state government—government everywhere. And we see so many people in local governments fighting to maintain and further that transparency, but we also see places where the door is being shut, the curtains are being drawn. And barriers are being erected. And that’s just wrong. When government is not open but is closed, it’s a short path for government to become our master instead of our servant.”
Yost’s findings show Crawford County as well as the cities of Beavercreek and Bowling Green failed to track public records requests by date and fulfillment. In Cuyahoga County, Yost says there’s a lack of consistency across county departments on how public records logs are kept. He notes there is a lack of evidence that county officials attended public records training and the manual for those employees did not include public records training requirements.

Editor's note: Georgia is a bit more active in punishing forgers. The Estate of Alice R. Gore, a disabled ward of the Probate Court of Cook County had 16 large annuity checks stolen and forged. Judge Kawamoto did not seek to punish the perpetrators. Why not???? Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com

Cumming woman catches trail of forged checks

by Staff Reports

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August 02, 2013

CUMMING, Ga. — After a woman's son died someone wrote fake checks in his name, according to a Forsyth County Sheriff's incident report.

On July 22, a woman told deputies the Forsyth County Probate Court assigned her as executor of her son's estate, who died in February.

She said she saw a portion of a lease and three checks that had her son's signature, but the handwriting did not match. The deputy said he was no handwriting expert, but he could see a distinct difference.

The three checks totaled about $3,500 and were all made out to the same person.

This article appeared in the August 8 issue of the Forsyth Herald.