OHIO- NEWSPAPERS LOSE MULTI-WEEK LEGAL NOTICES. A BLUEPRINT FOR OTHER STATES LIKE NORTH CAROLINA

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*OHIO- Newspapers Lose Multi-week Legal Notices. State saves Money.*

*A Blueprint for other states?*



/*Change in Legal Notice Publishing Requirements is buried in the Budget
Bill*/



As we reported last July
http://legal-notice.org/blog/ohio-state-budget-2012-13-elbows-newspapers-out-public-notice-space,
the State of Ohio, in their Reforms Book of the Ohio State Budget
http://obm.ohio.gov/sectionpages/Budget/FY1213/ExecutiveBudget.aspx for
2012-13 mentioned that they were going to build a state-wide legal notice web
site. In this year's budget bill
http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses129/11-hb153-129.pdf, Ohio stood up and
backed up their predictions.

As reported in the Hamilton County Law Library Blog
http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2012/01/ohio-public-notice-website.html this
week, beginning this month, courts, judges, and clerks in Ohio required to
publish notices multiple times, only have to publish the first notice in full
in a newspaper of general interest. After that, they can post an abbreviated
notice in the newspaper directing them to a state-wide web site where the
notice will reside.

This little noticed bill could be the beginning of a seismic change in the
requirements of publishing public notices. While Ohio has bitten off a very
small piece of the pie, they have shown other states that there is a path
other than through state legislators who, so frightened by the potential of
the newspapers' bully pulpit (see previous posts about public notices
in Florida
http://legal-notice.org/blog/florida-bill-move-foreclosure-notices-out-print-dies-committee-fla-pols-approval-rating-33-coin and New
Jersey
http://legal-notice.org/blog/nj-legislature-will-not-consider-line-public-notices-2-yrs-nj-has-highest-tax-burden-coincidenc )

According to the Hamilton Law Library Blog, the Ohio Supreme Court's staff
has listed only 12 such instances
http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/PIO/news/2012/statutoryRefs.pdf. One of the
12 is foreclosures involving liens of state. The next step to save those
homeowners who are being foreclosed on, would be to replicate this for
private foreclosure notices. Unfortunately, the Florida legislature just blew
that chance.

To read how other states are dealing with this issue

 http://legal-notice.org/blog

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IT IS TIME THE NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKE UP THIS ISSUE ON ONLINE PUBLIC NOTICES AND SAVE THE TAXPAYERS MONEY IN THIS STATE.