COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Supreme Court on Monday rejected a public records request seeking to force the Ohio Department of Health to compile specific spreadsheets of COVID-19-related death and vaccination data sought by a group that has challenged vaccine mandates.

In a 6-1 decision issued Tuesday, the court held that the Ohio Public Records Act does not require a state agency to create a new record, even if the underlying data is maintained in the agency’s databases.

The ruling came in the case filed against the Ohio Department of Health by Kathryn Huwig, a member of a group called Freedom Counsel.

Huwig, who has called COVID-19 vaccines “deadly,” sought an order to compel the state to produce custom spreadsheets that would combine information from the department’s databases compilin

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