"This is an effort to ensure that when somebody attempts to purchase a firearm or to obtain a concealed-carry permit or to be hired for a sensitive job, we can safely say that they have no disqualifiers in their past that prevent them from doing any of these things."Ī BCI spokesperson responded to the lawsuit by saying it is "embedded in 'high drama, low substance and no solutions,'" the Columbus Dispatch reports. "This is not a partisan lawsuit," Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said at the press conference. The information is also responsible for informing sheriffs' decisions about who to grant concealed carry permits and for informing schools and cities about which teachers or police officers are safe to hire. Ohio Auditor Keith Faber is cited in the suit saying that 88 counties had "'at least one court or law enforcement department that didn’t report records on time or in a few cases, at all.'"Īccurate background checks are critical for informing gun shop owners if they can safely sell to an individual, the lawsuit reads. The "completeness and accuracy" of these databases are essential to public safety, according to the lawsuit. "We believe that state officials have a clear legal obligation to make sure Ohio’s background check system contains every record it should," he said. There are "massive gaps" and likely thousands of missing records in the state's background check system, said Eric Tirschwell, m anaging director of firm Everytown Law, during a Monday press conference.to fulfill its mandatory obligation to collect and report disqualifying criminal conviction information into the state and federal background check system databases," the lawsuit reads. "This case is about the continuing and dangerous failure of. The cities allege the OAG and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification (BCI) have "persistently and systematically failed" to fix the system's deficiencies.
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Columbus, OH and Dayton, OH have filed a lawsuit against the Office of Ohio Attorney General (OAG) Dave Yost over an alleged failure to sufficiently update and maintain the criminal background check system used to determine if an individual can own a gun.
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