Ohio police employment records

Ohio’s certification file covers 65,088 officers who appear in its records between 1943-10-24 and 2024-12-31, across 1,712 agencies, in 152,093 employment records.

2024-12-31: coverage through
1943-10-24: earliest record
65,088: officers
1,712: agencies
152,093: employment records
latest separation date: coverage basis

The coverage date is computed from the file itself — the basis is the latest separation date. The publisher states November 2024. The file holds records newer than the date its publisher states. Source: NPI published bucket. Retrieved 2026-08-29.

Reporting

The reporting on Ohio’s police records

Ohio Attorney General · November 2023

Increased transparency of police records through the OPOTA portal

Ohio’s public portal began showing each officer’s reason for leaving an agency — resignation in good standing, resignation under investigation, resignation in lieu of termination, retirement, retirement under criminal investigation, criminal conviction, termination, or death — alongside full appointment history.

News 5 Cleveland · May 2021

Wandering officers: how Ohio fails to protect the public from bad cops

Only 247 Ohio officers lost certification over a decade, because the state can revoke it essentially only on a felony conviction or a negotiated surrender. The piece traces Timothy Loehmann from a resignation at one department to Cleveland and the killing of Tamir Rice.

What this data does not say

It never asserts that anyone is currently employed. The supported statement is that a person is listed as employed at an agency as of 2024-12-31, with no separation recorded.
Records are state-scoped. Ohio certification numbers are issued by its own board, so someone certified in two states appears in two files and is never merged into one history.
Measured across the 26 published files as of 2026-08-29, 69,683 officer records are open at two or more agencies at once — a genuine dual appointment, or a separation the board never recorded. Counted per file, never across states. The data cannot tell the two apart, so neither is asserted.

Where this comes from, and how to correct it

This page presents what NPI published bucket made available, as it was released. Some files reach us directly from the reporting agency and some through intermediaries that obtained them under public-records law; either way the content is the agency’s, not ours. CaseParity does not investigate, verify, correct or vouch for any individual record, and takes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of what a reporting agency published.

A correction to the record itself is made by the certifying agency that issued it — that is the only route that changes it at the source, and therefore everywhere it appears, here included. If what this page shows does not match that agency’s file, write to hello@caseparity.com and say which record and which field. No response time is promised, and nothing here substitutes for going to the agency.

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