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Audit finds trouble in city Police Department

2:11pm Saturday, February 21, 2004

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 02/20/04 Atlanta's troubled Police Department for years has failed to confront a serious crime problem and has even downplayed it, a new audit concludes. Police Chief Richard Pennington said the report, to be released today, describes a department where crime reports have been either intentionally suppressed or lost through sloppy record keeping. The result has...

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Letter to the Editor: Toledo Police surely have better things to do

1:56pm Saturday, February 21, 2004

February 21, 2004 Toledo Blade It's official. There are two people in each anti-smoking detection squad. Along with them is at least one Toledo police officer and a police vehicle. I can't believe the mayor and city council are wasting resources that should be out protecting the community and getting real criminals off the street. Criminals are killing and maiming ordinary Toledo citizens...

Dayton Daily News: Gun lobby shows clout in Ohio

by Chad D. Baus

1:01pm Saturday, February 21, 2004

Editor's Note: The DDN contacted the author in preparation for this story, which reveals that pro-concealed carry letters, calls, faxes and emails outpaced those sent by anti-gunners by more than 11 to 1 since Taft took office in 1999. Following the DDN story, is documentation of the wealth of information we provided the DDN on the history of OFCC's grassroots fight, but which Bischoff was not...

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What Business Owners Need to Know About the Ohio Concealed Handgun Law

2:42pm Friday, February 20, 2004

Ohioans For Concealed Carry has announced the launch of a new, web-based educational guide for business owners, aimed at answering their questions about implementation of the new concealed handgun license (CHL) law. After failing to scare business lobbyists into the fight in 2003, and after loosing in the legislative arena just weeks ago, gun ban lobbyists are now hoping to convince business...

Ohio's working families deserve right to self-defense to and from jobs

2:04pm Friday, February 20, 2004

Man shot, injured on way to West End job February 19, 2004 Cincinnati Post A builder on his way to work in the West End today was shot as he drove onto his construction site this morning. Police said the man, Alan Stenger, was stopped by a pedestrian as he was driving a white Dodge Ram pickup into the Reece Campbell construction site at Linn Street and Derrick Turnbow Avenue, at 8:10 a.m. The two...

Right to self-defense coming too late for some domestic violence victims

12:53pm Friday, February 20, 2004

Woman shot in front of son, 10 February 20, 2004 Cincinnati Post HIGHLAND HEIGHTS -- At sunrise Wednesday, with three blasts from a high-caliber rifle, the troubled lives and marriage of Charles and Cloay Swope came crashing down right before the horrified eyes of their 10-year-old son. So unreal, it seemed to neighbors, spotting Cloay's lifeless body collapsed in a pool of blood on the front...

Toledo Library board will post signs banning guns

11:09am Friday, February 20, 2004

February 20, 2004 Toledo Blade Pistol-packing library patrons will have to leave their guns in their cars. The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Board of Trustees voted yesterday to post signs outside the system’s libraries announcing that no firearms can be taken inside its buildings in response to the state’s concealed carry law, which takes effect in April. Library Director Clyde Scoles said...

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OFCC announces establishment of Ohio Media Monitoring Task Force

4:21pm Thursday, February 19, 2004

CLEVELAND, February 19, 2004 – Ohioans For Concealed Carry, Ohio’s largest grassroots concealed carry rights organization, has announced the formation of the OFCC Media Monitoring Task Force ( mediataskforce@ofcc.net ). The organization, comprised totally of grassroots volunteers from across the state, will monitor Ohio's media outlets, documenting any instances of abuse of the public records...