Sunshine Week in Ohio: Public Records Power Accountability — if We Can Get Them
Sunshine Week highlights the power of public records & the growing barriers that limit transparency & weaken public oversight.
By: @markpuente.bsky.social
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“We have long recognized that judges are held to the highest possible standard of ethical conduct,” Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy wrote in the high court’s decision. “Celebrezze failed to live up to that high standard.” via @dgambino.bsky.social www.cleveland.com/court-justic...
Our latest TMP-C newsletter takes you behind the indictment of former Judge Leslie Celebrezze.
"Those court aides who had stonewalled me for months were now going out of their way to respond. Emails now ended with cheerful best wishes for a good weekend." www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/14/b...
“What followed wasn’t just a clash over access, but a moment that reveals why blue-collar grit still matters in American journalism.”
“There’s not enough blue collar people who can talk to frontline workers, and that’s where they’re missing their mark at,” he said. “I focus on them people, those individuals, every day.” www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/from...
“People have a right to report, even if they’re critical” — Investigative reporter @markpuente.bsky.social, who was briefly blocked from an Ohio county courtroom by security while documenting arraignments Oct. 29.
@markpuente.bsky.social, @douglivingston.bsky.social & I reviewed the footage of the last moments of Ms. Grant’s life. However, some of the footage is missing. Cuyahoga County declined to comment on why 30 seconds of footage appears to be missing when Ms. Grant was discovered by a county deputy.
Cuyahoga County Sheriff Harold Pretel is refusing to seek independent investigation into the death of Tasha Grant, a double amputee who died after being restrained by officers. With @markpuente.bsky.social and @douglivingston.bsky.social
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Cuyahoga County officials never disclosed that Ms. Grant died as a result of being physically restrained by a deputy. The Marshall Project-Cleveland team broke the news last night. w/ @brittanyhailer.bsky.social & Doug Livingston. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/25/c...
Latest on Cuyahoga County's Downtown Safety Patrol. “I definitely thought these (deputies) were fishing,” Ray told The Marshall Project - Cleveland and News 5 Cleveland. W/ Doug Livingston & @taramorgantv.bsky.social www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/15/c...
Rolling 4 deep today in Northeast Ohio. 🔥🔥🔥
The Ohio Disciplinary Counsel said Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze left a stain on the judicial system and arrogance likely led to her legal troubles. “There is simply no place in our justice system for dishonest judges,” he wrote. www.clevescene.com/news/discipl...
The Ohio Disciplinary Counsel has called Leslie Celebrezze a dishonest judge and says she has left a stain on the judiciary and is playing the victim. Filing is in response to the judge wanting only a public reprimand for her misconduct. Read the brief: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
"A Cuyahoga County sheriff's deputy [Isen Vajusi] involved in separate shootings of two teenagers while assigned to a controversial downtown patrol unit was once deemed unfit by a suburban police force."
"He shop-hopped from agency to agency."
#Ohio #USA #Policing
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Impact journalism. An Ohio lawmaker wants a new law. “All babies should count, whether they're born in the system or whether they're born to a mother who's not incarcerated,” Upchurch said. “That's the kind of message that we need to be sending across Ohio.” www.news5cleveland.com/news/the-mar...
A new investigation from TMP-C and Scott Noll at WEWS. She went to jail pregnant. What happened next isn't even a statistic. Why didn't Cuyahoga County tell Ohio offcials about a pregancy loss? Because the fetus was not incarcerated. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/05/15/c...
A new investigation from TMP-C and Scott Noll at WEWS. She went to jail pregnant. What happened next isn't even a statistic. Why didn't Cuyahoga County tell Ohio offcials about a pregancy loss? Because the fetus was not incarcerated. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/05/15/c...
More: "Accordingly, relator urges the panel to recommend a one-year suspension with six months stayed on condition that respondent commit no further misconduct. Read the reccomendation. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
2/3 More: stayed on condition that respondent commit no further misconduct...We cannot expect the public to trust the judiciary if we do not sufficiently sanction members of the judiciary who violate the public trust."
1/3 NEW Ohio Disciplinary Counsel on Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze's misconduct:
"As stated previously, there is no case quite like respondent’s. But based on the cases cited herein, the appropriate sanction for respondent’s misconduct is a one-year suspension with six months
Back story on the lawsuit. Celebrezze has not yer replied today to a request for comment. www.clevescene.com/news/subpoen...
More trouble for embattled Judge Leslie Celebrezze. The lawsuit brought against her by a former employee for retaliation after firing her for providng me public records. The case got tossed by a visiting judge. Celebrezze lost her argument with the appeals court. Goes back to trial court.
It is time to give mowing lessons to the neighbors. You leave the mower where it runs out of gas. 😳😳😳
Thursday night vibes at Meatfork. 🥃🥃 🎼🎼🔥🔥 @lpuente5.bsky.social & Bosch
A great evening had by all. 🥃🥃 w/ @lpuente5.bsky.social
A nice day to sip some Kentucky water. 🥃🥃🥃 w/ @lpuente5.bsky.social
