Substitute House Bill 425 Summary

• Body and Dashboard Camera Recordings: Specifies that "restricted portions" of police body-worn and dashboard camera recordings are not public records, including footage showing children, deaths, grievous bodily harm, nude bodies, sensitive victims' information, and non-law enforcement conversations.

• School Infrastructure Records: Exempts public school infrastructure records from public disclosure requirements to protect critical system configurations and security information.

• Protection Order Changes: Replaces expungement with sealing of ex parte protection orders and related records under certain circumstances, particularly when courts refuse to grant protection orders.

• Appellate Process Clarification: Clarifies that ex parte protection order records are sealed after either all appellate rights are exhausted or the notice of appeal period expires, rather than using previous expungement language.

• Repeal of Pilot Program: Repeals sections 109.38 and 109.381 of the Revised Code, which governed a pilot program for removing sealed or expunged records from certain databases.