Media Law & Government Transparency Practicum

Catalog description

This course explores the substantive law and strategic considerations involved in counseling, training, and drafting public records requests. The focus of this course is the public's right to access government documents under Ohio's Sunshine Laws. Substantive classes in combination with the practical drafting assignments will culminate in a group-created presentation to a non-legal community group at the end of the term. Class time is dedicated to the discussion of substantive law, barriers to records requests, and student hurdles or progress on the semester presentation. Students are evaluated based on their participation, written clinic work and a final presentation to non-lawyer community members.