I was trying to read the bill, almost went blind, and I think it goes a lot further than you think.

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_141

It even covers a section about bulk extractions (sales of copies for title plants etc...)

It looks like it covers more than just the courts...

(1) "Public record" means records kept by any public office, including, but not limited to, state, county, city, village, township, and school district units, and records pertaining to the delivery of educational services by an alternative school in Ohio kept by a nonprofit or for profit entity operating such alternative school pursuant to section 3313.533 of the Revised Code. "Public record" does not mean any of the following:

The way I read it, it has a lot of things that are not considered public record including names and address of law enforcement, judges, etc...and also;

7) "Peace officer, parole officer, prosecuting attorney, assistant prosecuting attorney, correctional employee, youth services employee, firefighter, or EMT residential and familial information" means either of the following:

(a) Any any information maintained in a personnel record of that discloses any of the following about a peace officer, parole officer, prosecuting attorney, assistant prosecuting attorney, correctional employee, youth services employee, firefighter, or EMT that discloses any of the following:

(i)(a) The address of the actual personal residence of a peace officer, parole officer, assistant prosecuting attorney, correctional employee, youth services employee, firefighter, or EMT, except for the state or political subdivision in which the peace officer, parole officer, assistant prosecuting attorney, correctional employee, youth services employee, firefighter, or EMT resides.

iii)(c) The social security number, the residential telephone number, any bank account, debit card, charge card, or credit card number, or the emergency telephone number of, or any medical information pertaining to, a peace officer, parole officer, prosecuting attorney, assistant prosecuting attorney, correctional employee, youth services employee, firefighter, or EMT;

(vi)(f) The name, the residential address, the name of the employer, the address of the employer, the social security number, the residential telephone number, any bank account, debit card, charge card, or credit card number, or the emergency telephone number of the spouse, a former spouse, or any child of a peace officer, parole officer, prosecuting attorney, assistant prosecuting attorney, correctional employee, youth services employee, firefighter, or EMT;

a) The address or telephone number of a person under the age of eighteen or the address or telephone number of that person's parent, guardian, custodian, or emergency contact person;

(b) The social security number, birth date, or photographic image of a person under the age of eighteen;


Now, I have only pick certain parts out of this bill, but the logistic nightmare for the Recorder, Assessor, Collector and Circuit Clerk to keep track of the affected persons and their spouses, ex-spouses and children is just mind blowing.  I informed a client about this law going into effect today and they just about fainted dead away and didn't believe it until they tried to pull up their on-line connections to several Ohio Recorder Offices and they were all down.  I am all for pulling down on-line records for a couple of reasons; identity theft for one and incomplete records for another.  Every time the records are re-entered, and many are to put them on-line, their are more chances for errors.  Many are incomplete and worthless.  St. Charles County in Missouri are on-line and we tested them out.  Did a search at the Courthouse and did it again on-line.  The on-line records were scary.  Sometimes the information was there, sometimes it wasn't.  Ran the name and no DOT's showed up, ran it again, the same way, 5 minutes later not one but two DOT's showed up.

  I believe this bill might be one of the new laws that spell the end of on-line records, I just hope that it will not go to far or Recorders will be the ones doing the title searches and with some recorders, that can't even search their own county, that can be just as scary.

  Robert have you had a chance to read this yet, am I on the mark or did I make a left (heaven help me did I say "left" lol) turn somewhere?

Jay