Ohio Dept of Health to confiscate public records

Anonymous Patron writes “The Huron County Genealogical Society may pursue legal action against the Huron County General Health District for confiscating about 20 rolls of microfilm containing vital statistics from the Norwalk Public Library, according to local historian Henry Timman. Coverage in the Morning Journal from Loraine, OH, can be found here and here.”

The article says The Ohio Department of Health will pursue every collection of state vital statistic records outside its control on the grounds that local health districts never had the authority to make available mass reproductions of the records, according to Jay Carey and Dr. Sandra McGuire, of the Ohio Department of Health.