HB 429 Summary

• Makes records kept by private police departments subject to Ohio's Public Records Law, requiring them to be made available for public inspection and copying.

• Extends residential and familial information protections to private police officers, exempting their home addresses, family contact information, and other personal details from public disclosure (consistent with protections for other law enforcement officers).

• Permits private police officers to request public offices redact their residential and familial information from public records made available online.

• Applies the same public records access rules and protections to private police departments that currently apply to traditional government law enforcement agencies, including definitions for campus police, nonprofit corporation police, bank police, railroad police, hospital police, and amusement park police officers.