COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled police officers can be considered victims, and thus not subject to public disclosure, under Ohio’s Marsy’s Law privacy protections.

The case stems from a July 2023 incident in which three men robbed several car dealerships, banks, and even a GameStop before getting tracked down police.

A car chase on I-70 ended in a shootout. Two suspects fled on foot. But a third shot one officer five times and was approaching a second officer when he was shot and killed.

The fleeing suspects were caught, and in January of this year sentenced to 25 and 13 years respectively.

But the day of the shooting, reporters at the Columbus Dispatch filed a public records request for bodycam and dashcam footage.

Columbus Police eventually released redacted

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