Ohio
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Ohio (OH) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Ohio counts here.
This is not the same set as Ohio's jurisdiction page, which records the 15 entries where Ohio's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
5 entries · 4 places
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Reynoldsburg city 2 entries
Reynoldsburg, Ohio officer searched same plate 53 times without case numbers, resigned before misconduct interview
On July 16, 2026, Reynoldsburg, Ohio police officer Alissa Birkhimer resigned one day before she was scheduled to be interviewed by Internal Affairs investigators about her use of the department's Flock Safety license-plate-reader system. A department audit found she had searched the same Ohio license plate 53 times between January and June 2026, mostly without the case number her searches were supposed to be tied to, and that a case number she eventually cited in June belonged to an unrelated missing-person investigation with no established connection to the plate. Unlike a fellow officer caught in a parallel audit, Reynoldsburg police released no internal-affairs finding on whether Birkhimer's searches violated policy before she left.
Reynoldsburg, Ohio officer Mark Nichols made 46 unauthorized Flock searches on ex-partner's plate, resigned before IA interview
Reynoldsburg, Ohio police officer Mark Nichols resigned on July 13, 2026, the day before he was scheduled to be interviewed in an internal-affairs investigation that found he made 47 unauthorized searches of the department's Flock Safety license-plate-reader system between September 2025 and June 2026. Investigators determined 46 of those searches targeted a vehicle belonging to his former domestic partner, with Nichols logging the reason as "23," the department's code for an errand, rather than a case number; Deputy Chief Mike Binder sustained the finding that Nichols had violated department policy. Because Nichols resigned before his interview he faced no discipline, and the department held off referring the case for criminal prosecution because of a medical diagnosis, though officials said that could change if his health improved.
Cincinnati city 1 entry
ICE detained former Venezuelan opposition mayor Carlos Garcia-Oden at routine Cincinnati check-in
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Carlos Garcia-Oden, a former opposition mayor of Mérida, Venezuela, at a scheduled immigration check-in in Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 23, 2026, and booked him into the Butler County Jail as deportation proceedings began. Garcia-Oden had complied with ICE check-ins for years, held a valid work permit through 2030, and had no criminal record; his family said ICE gave no reason for the arrest. He fled Venezuela in 2017 after being sentenced in absentia for opposing Nicolás Maduro's government and has an asylum claim pending.
Highland Heights city 1 entry
Highland Heights, Ohio police dispatcher misused Flock license-plate cameras in 20,292 unauthorized searches, resigned
A part-time Highland Heights, Ohio police dispatcher resigned on August 20, 2026, after Police Chief Dennis Matejcic found she had repeatedly misused the department's Flock automated license-plate-reader system for searches unconnected to any Highland Heights case. Records obtained by the public-records tracker HaveIBeenFlocked showed the dispatcher's account carried out 20,292 Flock searches between October 24, 2024 and November 22, 2025, including more than 5,000 searches on a single license plate, and the chief said she continued the unauthorized searches in the 30 days before he discovered them. Highland Heights had never audited its Flock system, in use since 2021, before this incident, and the department has since made monthly audits mandatory for every employee with Flock access.
Middletown city 1 entry
Trump administration redirected $500 million clean-steel grant to fund coal-fired furnace at Ohio steel mill
On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it had redirected a $500 million grant, originally awarded to Cleveland-Cliffs in March 2024 to decarbonize its Middletown, Ohio, steel mill, to instead fund continued operation of the plant's coal-fired blast furnace. The grant was restructured after Cleveland-Cliffs said the "green premium" business case for the original hydrogen-ready project no longer held; DOE Secretary Chris Wright and Vice President JD Vance, a Middletown native, appeared at the plant to promote the change. A former DOE official said the revised scope conflicts with the Inflation Reduction Act's statutory definition of eligible "advanced industrial technology," which requires funded projects to accelerate progress toward net-zero emissions.