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Sponsoring Rep. Shane Wilkin (R-Hillsboro) said the bill doesn’t infringe on protestors’ First Amendment rights or restrict bystanders from recording video or audio of an officer on the job. But he said it requires them to give officers space and to not do things to distract them.
“This bill is not an anti-peaceful protest bill. The key word is peaceful, Wilkin said.
But Rep. David Leland (D-Columbus) said last year, now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was seen responding to people recording video and calling on him to take his knee off George Floyd’s neck. It seems plain to me that this statute would criminalize the actions of those bystanders, bystanders who were trying to save the life of George Floyd, Leland said.
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Gavel outside Ohio Supreme Court
One of the biggest corruption cases in the nation is happening right here in Ohio. Federal prosecutors are going after the former speaker of the Ohio House, Larry Householder (R-Glenford), and the former head of the Ohio Republican Party, along with others, for federal crimes. But if there are crimes that occurred at the state level, those could be affected by an amendment that has been slipped into a bill at the Statehouse.
Most of the state-level crimes committed by Ohio s leaders are prosecuted in Franklin County where, recently, after more than six decades, a Democrat now serves as prosecutor. Democratic State Rep David Leland (D-Columbus) says that s why majority Republicans have quietly attached an amendment to an unrelated bill (HB286) that would change where state leaders are prosecuted.
Franklin County jail in downtown Columbus.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers launched another effort to overhaul the state’s bail system, which has been talked about for years and is backed by conservative and liberal groups.
The newly introduced Senate bill doesn’t eliminate cash bail, but caps it at 25% of a person’s monthly net income. Sen. Rob McColley (R-Napoleon) is sponsoring the bill with Sen. Steve Huffman (R-Tipp City) and three co-sponsors, two of them Democrats.
McColley said it will help in an unequal system where some can afford the bail imposed on them and some can’t.
Another Effort To Reform Ohio s Cash Bail System Launched
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) A bipartisan group of lawmakers launched another effort to overhaul the state’s bail system, which has been talked about for years and is backed by conservative and liberal groups.
The Justice Center in Cleveland, the complex which houses the Cuyahoga County jail. [Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau]The newly introduced Senate bill doesn’t eliminate cash bail, but caps it at 25% of a person’s monthly net income. Sponsoring Sen. Rob McColley (R-Napoleon) is sponsoring the bill with Sen. Steve Huffman (R-Tipp City) and three co-sponsors, two of them Democrats.