Dispatch Editor Alan Miller and senior public affairs reporter Randy Ludlow discuss tips for gaining access to public records and talk about how you can best fashion your request to increase your chances of landing the information you seek. Furthermore we mention the importance of public records and explain how these records are vital to the reporting done here at the Columbus Dispatch. Finally, we discuss how we can leverage public records and explain the appeal process through the Ohio Court of Claims when records might be improperly held.

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