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NW Ohio Courts Doing Their Job
The Governor of Ohio, John Kasich, proposed a crackdown on courts that fail to timely report criminal convictions for inclusion in the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
While some Ohio courts remain backlogged in getting the information to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which uses the information to update databases for background checks, a review of quarterly BCI reports listing noncompliant courts shows that courts in northwest Ohio are, by and large, doing their job.
“Homeland security alone is a good reason why we do it,” said Lucas County Clerk of Courts J. Bernie Quilter, whose office was not cited for violations on any of the reports since BCI began issuing them in 2015.
Mr. Quilter's office has been sending its criminal case dispositions to BCI by computer since as far back as 2005. A common pleas court, which almost exclusively handles felony offenses, has the largest share of convictions to report.
“By sending this report electronically every week we are providing the most up-to-date, accurate information from our court that is needed for other agencies,” Mr. Quilter said.
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