Portage County Court Denies Access?
The Common Pleas Clerk in Portage County denied a Record-Courier reporter access to its files according to a story in the Record Courier on 10-4-2007. Linda Fankhauser, the Clerk of Courts, is apparently reading the new law to allow her to deny access until her office receives training. I like Linda, but I don’t understand her position on this issue. The decision opens the Clerk of Courts to a Public Records mandamus lawsuit. It would be interesting to file it in the Portage County Court of Common Pleas, but I think more prudent to file directly in the Supreme Court. The article is at
Portage court denies access to records
The paper’s editorial is at