Government liability & public law and risk
I want this part of the site to be useful when a government-law problem first lands on your desk. These tools are meant to help identify the issues, organize the right questions, and make the conversation with your law director or other counsel more productive.
A guided issue-spotting tool for Ohio political-subdivision immunity. It will walk through the three-tier analysis, governmental and proprietary functions, the R.C. 2744.02(B) exceptions, and the defenses that may restore immunity.
The result will be a starting point for discussion with counsel, not a legal conclusion about a particular claim.
A practical guide for the early stages of an Ohio public-records request: identifying responsive records, preserving them, spotting possible exemptions and redactions, and recognizing when the request needs legal review.
The goal is a better process, not a substitute for the public office’s legal advice.
A topic-based reference to the Ohio Revised Code provisions that come up repeatedly in public-entity work. Readers will be able to start with a subject and find the statutes, related provisions, and relevant posts in one place.
Think less “search the entire Revised Code” and more “show me the statutes that matter to this problem.”
Government problems are usually fact-specific, and a checklist cannot tell a city, county, township, school district, or other public office what it should do in a particular situation. The resources here are designed to help people recognize the legal issue earlier, gather the information counsel will need, and avoid treating a general rule as the answer to a specific problem.
If a tool produces a result that matters to an actual decision, claim, request, employee issue, or lawsuit, that is the point to involve the entity’s law director, prosecutor, or other legal counsel.