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OFCC Sues City of Cleveland Heights, Ohio
The sign you see here is posted in Cleveland Heights Parks implying possession of a firearm is a crime.
On Friday August 12th, 2011 Ohioans For Concealed Carry Filed a lawsuit against the City the City of Cleveland Heights. The litigation comes after many attempts to resolve concerns over laws that Cleveland Heights not only allowed to remain on their books, but also posted signs at their parks that continue to imply it is illegal to be armed. The City of Cleveland Heights has chosen to ignore our attempts at civil discourse. When individuals have contacted them representing themselves as residents of the City of Cleveland Heights their concerns apparently fell on deaf ears. When representatives of the organization have formally contacted the city's legal representation they've been laughed at and hung up on by the Law Director. It is this arrogance and refusal to work with Ohioans For Concealed Carry that has forced us to seek a remedy through the courts.
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Canton PD Event Leads to New OFCC Legislation
When officer Harless of the Canton, Ohio police department came upon a vehicle stopped in the roadway most of us were focused on getting restaurant carry legislation signed into law.
What took place that evening has become an international viral video, calls for the resignation of the City Council president, and criminal charges against a man who is clearly heard trying to state that he has a license.
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has not just raised thousands of dollars in a legal defense fund, but we've written legislation to resolve this matter that Representative Danny Bubp has stated he's going to introduce this fall
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Dayton Daily News: Taft aims to calm concealed-carry foes
- Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
- Written by Jeff Garvas
Governor wants rights legislation
By William Hershey, Laura A. Bischoff
Dayton Daily News
December 18, 2003
COLUMBUS -- Gov. Bob Taft said Wednesday that his aides and staffers from the Ohio House are negotiating in a last-ditch effort to avoid a veto of legislation passed last week that would give law-abiding Ohioans the right to carry concealed handguns.
"I would hope that we could get this resolved as soon as the legislature comes back (in the first week in January)," Taft said in a year-end interview at the governor's residence in suburban Bexley.
The efforts to work out a compromise on concealed-carry have continued despite Taft's threat to veto the bill passed last week, saying it doesn't give the press and public adequate access to personal information about permit holders.
That bill would give journalists -- not the public -- access to concealed-carry records on a name-by-name basis.
Taft said negotiations focus on a proposal agreed to by him and Senate Republicans that would give journalists access to each county's database on permit holders, providing the names and counties of residence.
That falls short of Taft's initial public record demand that called for giving the public access to permit holders' names, counties of residence, and birth dates.
"In the interest of passing a bill, we think if you got names and counties that would be sufficient, just as long as there is full access to the database on the part of reporters," Taft said.
House Republicans declined to go along with this plan last week. But one legislative source close to the negotiations said, "I think there's a likelihood of that (an agreement) happening. . . We're so close we may be able to go."
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Dwight Crum, spokesman for House Speaker Larry Householder, R-Glenford, would say only, "We're continuing to work to try and give law-abiding Ohioans the ability to protect themselves and their families."
If the House and Senate both agreed to the new bill, Taft would sign it as well as the one passed last week, with the new bill's provisions being paramount.
In one sign that negotiations are going on, the House, where the bill that passed last week originated, has not sent the legislation to Taft yet. The 10 days the governor has to veto a bill do not start until it arrives on his desk.
If Taft gets only the bill passed last week -- without the new legislation -- he would veto it, said Orest Holubec, Taft's spokesman.
Householder has said he believes he has the votes in the House to override a veto, but Senate President Doug White, R-Manchester, has said he does not.
Click here to read the entire story in the Dayton Daily News.