The opioid settlement was won by Ohio’s lawyers for the benefit of Ohioans. OneOhio Recovery Foundation, whatever its legal framework, is a trustee for the people. And the people are entitled to know how, in whatever kind of meeting, for whatever purpose, the foundation manages their money, writes the editorial board of The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com.
is charged with ladling out 55% of the $1.8 billion that Ohio has won in legal settlements from the nation’s opioid manufacturers and distributors. That’s likely to amount to $1 billion or more. The other 45% will go directly to communities and the state .
In April, in response to a complaint by Granville-based Harm Reduction Ohio, the state’s largest distributor of overdose-fighting naloxone, a Franklin County Common Pleas judge ordered OneOhio to comply with Ohio’s Open Meetings Act.
Complicating the dispute: A budget amendment taking effect Oct. 3, sponsored by state Sen. Rob McColley, a Napoleon Republican, who is a legislative appointee to OneOhio’s board and may become the state Senate’s next president. His amendment exempts OneOhio from the Public Records Act and Open Meetings Act and also, the Columbus Dispatch, “says OneOhio Foundation and its 19 regional boards aren’t public entities under Ohio’s ethics [and] bribery … statutes.
Part of the reason OneOhio was created as a nonprofit likely stems from how Ohio frittered away millions of dollars recovered in the 1990s from tobacco companies for the Medicaid costs to Ohio of tobacco-related illnesses.
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