Ohio: Code Enforcement Officers Personally Liable For Seizing Cars

Ohio Court of Appeals finds code enforcement officers can be held personally liable for towing cars without due process.
TheNewspaper
May. 27, 2015

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Code enforcement officers in Riverside, Ohio do not have the unfettered right to tow cars from a private residence that they they imagined they had. Although Voncile DuBose and Peter Williams were backed up by a city ordinance, they found that they did not have the statutory immunity for their actions on the city's behalf that they imagined, thanks to a ruling earlier this month by the Ohio Court of Appeals. A divided three-judge panel held Kevin Vlcek could hold city employees personally liable for taking his cars without giving him a meaningful opportunity to appeal.

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