ANNUAL REPORT 2019, 20 pages

Report required by R.C. 173.01; contains statistics about older Ohioans; highlights initiatives supported by the state budget and the State Plan on Aging; reviews Department's activities and accomplishments in the areas of caregiver infrastructure, protecting the independence and vitality of older Ohioans, the effect of the opioid crisis on older Ohioans, and the expansion of nutritional and other services to promote healthy living.

OHIO SUNSHINE LAWS 2020: AN OPEN GOVERNMENT RESOURCE MANUAL, March 2020, 171 pages

Assembled annually by the Attorney General's Public Records Unit; its purpose is to inform citizens of their rights and public employees of their obligations; reflects law changes and legal decisions from the previous year concerning Ohio's Public Records and Open Meetings laws; notes local governments should seek legal counsel for specific questions as they arise.

OHIO'S LAW ON CONCEALED HANDGUNS, 2019, March 2020, 28 pages

Report required by R.C. 109.731; represents annual compilation of statistics submitted to the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission by Ohio sheriffs on the number of concealed carry licenses issued, renewed, suspended, or revoked; ranks counties as "the most" or the "fewest" in each category; provides statistics for each county; identifies 36 states with reciprocity agreements that allow Ohio permit holders to carry concealed handguns.

ANNUAL REPORT ON OHIO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, JULY 1, 2018-JUNE 30, 2019, December 31, 2019, 42 pages

Report required by R.C. 3314.015; describes the status of community schools with respect to: academic performance, school operations, performance of sponsors, legal compliance, and financial condition; uses graphs and charts to convey many statistics; includes overall sponsor ratings during this period.

STUDY OF INTERNET-OR COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNITY SCHOOL FUNDING MODELS, December 2019, 29 pages

Report required by Section 265.470 of H.B. 166 of the 133rd General Assembly; Department directed to study competency-based and completion-based models for funding e-schools and address the feasibility of implementing those models in Ohio; report explains Ohio's current method of funding, process used to research and prepare this report, and defines types of funding models; makes findings about the current system of accountabiity and oversight; finds that competency-based funding in K-12 education is not practiced in the United States, but that performance-based funding models have used a completion-based funding model; the Department finds numerous challenges to switching to a completion-based funding model and at this time does "not recommend or find feasibility in moving to a competency-based funding model;" summarizes the challenges the Department identified in this review that would need to be addressed if Ohio decided to move in the direction of a competency-based funding model; identifies issues for further study. 

REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS, January 26, 2020, 44 pages

Task Force created by the Ohio Attorney General (AG) to review the Ohio facial recognition database and advise the AG on its use for law enforcement while protecting privacy and civil liberties; describes its meetings and topics discussed; makes 13 recommendations; appendices attached of various information sources reviewed by the Task Force; includes comments from the Department of Public Safety Task Force members. 

OHIO PHYSICIAN AND ALLIED HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE PREPARATION TASK FORCE REPORT, March 1, 2020, 32 pages

Report required by Section 381.610 of H.B. 166 of the 133rd General Assembly (2019-2020); Task Force required to study, evaluate, and recommend health care workforce needs; summarizes meetings; describes current initiatives of state agencies and private organizations to address worker shortages and collect data; reviews related studies by public and private organizations on the status and needs of the health care workforce.

SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020, March 17, 2020, 1 page + Part Two- electronic zip file, size 7.19 MB

Report required by R.C. 3345.72; Part One contains responses to 12 questions, designed to probe for serious cash flow problems, answered by the campus fiscal officers of all 37 of Ohio's state-supported colleges and universities for which the desired answer is NO; none of the institutions responded affirmatively to any of the questions; contact the LSC Library for copies of the individual university reports from Part Two.

ANNUAL REPORT, 2019, March 2020, 61 pages

Report required by R.C. 121.48; includes a description of the mission and the responsibilities of the Office, as well as an organizational chart; explains the investigative process and includes a flowchart for filing a complaint; summarizes the types of allegations as fraud, waste, abuse, corruption, and conflict of interest; provides a statistical summary of cases; summarizes selected investigations from 2019.

OHIO'S OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING AND REGULATORY BOARDS ANNUAL REPORT FOR FY 2019, November 2019, 22 pages

Report required by R.C. 103.13(H); summarizes the year-end cash balances for funds used by the boards and commissions; notes collectively the boards and commissions had sufficient revenues to cover their expenditures; includes a simplified cash balance statement for the funds used by the 23 boards and commissions; compares active licenses for the FY 2019 to FY 2018; includes table of FY 2018 board abolishments and consolidations; financial and licensing data presented in this report was compiled from information provided by the boards and commissions and data from the Ohio Administrative Knowledge System (OAKS).

ANNUAL REPORT, 2019: EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE OPERATIONS OF THE STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEMS, 133RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY, JANUARY 1, 2019-DECEMBER 31, 2019, March 4, 2020, 25 pages

Report required by R.C. 171.04; includes information on the retirement systems' investment performance, progress on achieving 30-year funding plans, and the status of health care funds; summarizes enacted pension legislation; summarizes pending pension-related issues and makes recommendations; describes documents statutorily required to be submitted to the Council by the retirement systems; describes reports prepared by the Council; includes status sheet of pension legislation through December 31, 2019.