Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Pavan Parikh says he doesn’t anticipate additional litigation related to online eviction records. The Ohio Supreme Court recently ruled against the clerk in a dispute between his office and the Municipal Court judges.

The dispute began three years ago, when Parikh announced a new policy : inactive eviction records older than three years would be removed from the Clerk of Courts website. The cases were either dismissed, which means the eviction didn’t go through, or had been fully resolved with no outstanding payment due.

Parikh says the decision stemmed from an effort to decrease housing barriers for renters.

“We know that people are using our website — the public-facing version of our website — instead of going through the process of a full background ch

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