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New Mexico | N.M. Stat. Ann. § 14-2-1 | Right to inspect public records |
Every person has a right to inspect public records of this state except . . . law enforcement records that reveal confidential sources, methods, information or individuals accused but not charged with a crime. Law enforcement records include evidence in any form received or compiled in connection with a criminal investigation or prosecution by a law enforcement or prosecuting agency, including inactive matters or closed investigations to the extent that they contain the information listed in this paragraph
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New Mexico | N.M. Stat. Ann. § 34-1-6 | Clerks to record orders, make indexes, issue process and keep seal |
The clerks of the supreme and inferior courts, and of the probate judges, shall seasonably record the judgments, rules, orders and other proceedings of the respective courts and make a complete alphabetical index thereto, issue and attest all processes issuing from their respective offices, and affix the seal of office thereto; they shall preserve the seal and other property belonging to their respective offices.
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Obligation to collect or record | Clerk |
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New Mexico | N.M. Stat. Ann. § 31-22-19 | Annual Report |
At least thirty days prior to the convening of each regular session of the legislature, the commission shall transmit to the governor, the department of finance and administration and the legislature a report of its activities under the Crime Victims Reparation Act. The department of finance and administration shall, within five days after the opening of the legislative session, transmit the report, together with a tabulation of the total amount awarded and the amount of any judgments collected, to the senate finance committee and to the house appropriations and finance committee or any successor committees.
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New Mexico | N.M. Stat. Ann. § 14-8-1 | County clerks to be recorders |
The county clerks of the different counties of this state shall be ex officio recorders in their respective counties. |
Obligation to collect or record | County |
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New Mexico | N.M. Stat. Ann. § 34-6-26 | Operation; record; authentication |
The district court of each county shall keep a record containing orders entered by the court. Orders made orally by the court shall be entered upon the record by the district court clerk. The district judge shall review and sign the record following each term of the court, but if, for any cause, the district judge fails to sign the record, the district court clerk may certify the record as authentic.
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Obligation to collect or record | Court |
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 149.43(B)(1) | Availability of public records |
Upon request and subject to division (B)(8) of this section, all public records responsive to the request shall be promptly prepared and made available for inspection to any person at all reasonable times during regular business hours. Subject to division (B)(8) of this section, upon request, by any person a public office or person responsible for public records shall make copies of the requested public record available to the requester at cost and within a reasonable period of time. If a public record contains information that is exempt from the duty to permit public inspection or to copy the public record, the public office or the person responsible for the public record shall make available all of the information within the public record that is not exempt. When making that public record available for public inspection or copying that public record, the public office or the person responsible for the public record shall notify the requester of any redaction or make the redaction plainly visible. A redaction shall be deemed a denial of a request to inspect or copy the redacted information, except if federal or state law authorizes or requires a public office to make the redaction.
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 2949.14 | Cost bill in case of felony |
Upon conviction of a nonindigent person for a felony, the clerk of the court of common pleas shall make and certify under the clerk's hand and seal of the court, a complete itemized bill of the costs made in such prosecution, including the sum paid by the board of county commissioners, certified by the county auditor, for the arrest and return of the person on the requisition of the governor, or on the request of the governor to the president of the United States, or on the return of the fugitive by a designated agent pursuant to a waiver of extradition except in cases of parole violation. The clerk shall attempt to collect the costs from the person convicted.
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 509.15(F) | Fees of constables |
The actual amount paid solely for the transportation, meals, and lodging of prisoners, and for the moving and storage of goods and the care of animals taken on any legal process, such expense shall be specifically itemized on the back of the writs and sworn to
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Obligation to collect or record | Law enforcement |
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 2929.37(B)(1) | Policy requiring prisoner to pay costs of confinement |
Each prisoner covered by a repayment policy adopted as described in division (A) of this section shall receive at the end of the prisoner's confinement an itemized bill of the expenses to be reimbursed. . . . (2) If the prisoner disputes an item on an itemized bill presented to the prisoner under division (B)(1) of this section and the reimbursement coordinator does not concede the item, the reimbursement coordinator shall submit the bill to the court, and the court shall hold a hearing on the disputed items in the bill.
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 2151.541(A)(2) | Additional fees to pay for computerizing court or office of clerk or for computerized legal research services |
All moneys collected under division (A)(1) of this section shall be paid to the county treasurer. The treasurer shall place the moneys from the fees in a separate fund to be disbursed either upon an order of the juvenile judge, subject to an appropriation by the board of county commissioners, or upon an order of the juvenile judge, subject to the court making an annual report available to the public listing the use of all such funds, in an amount no greater than the actual cost to the court of procuring and maintaining computerization of the court, computerized legal research services, or both.
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Obligation to report/conduct analysis | State courts |
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 1901.261(A)(2) | Municipal Courts - Computerization |
All fees collected under this section shall be paid on or before the twentieth day of the month following the month in which they are collected to the county treasurer if the court is a county-operated municipal court or to the city treasurer if the court is not a county-operated municipal court. The treasurer shall place the funds from the fees in a separate fund to be disbursed upon an order of the court, subject to an appropriation by the board of county commissioners if the court is a county-operated municipal court or by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation if the court is not a county-operated municipal court, or upon an order of the court, subject to the court making an annual report available to the public listing the use of all such funds, in an amount not greater than the actual cost to the court of computerizing the court, procuring and maintaining computerized legal research services, or both.
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 2949.11 | Fines paid into county treasury |
Unless otherwise required in the Revised Code, an officer who collects a fine shall pay it into the treasury of the county in which such fine was assessed, within twenty days after the receipt of the fine, to the credit of the county general fund. The county treasurer shall issue duplicate receipts for the fine, and the officer making the collection shall deposit one of these receipts with the county auditor.
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Obligation to collect or record | County |
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 2951.021(D) | Supervision Fees |
Not later than the first day of December of each year, each probation agency or the court of common pleas of a county in which the court has entered into an agreement with the adult parole authority pursuant to section 2301.32 of the Revised Code shall prepare a report regarding its use of money from a county probation services account, a multicounty probation services account, or a municipal probation services account, whichever is applicable. The report shall specify the amount appropriated from the fund to the probation agency or court during the current calendar year, an estimate of the amount that the probation agency or court will expend by the end of the year, a summary of how the amount appropriated has been expended for probation services, and an estimate of the amount of supervision fees that the probation agency or court will collect and pay to the appropriate treasurer for deposit in the appropriate fund in the next calendar year.
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Obligation to report/conduct analysis | Supervision agency |