7. Victims.

A victim’s statement reporting an office to a law enforcement officer is a public record which must be disclosed where the relator is not a defendant in the course of a criminal trial. Pinkava v. Corrigan, 64 Ohio App.3d 499, 581 N.W.2d 1181 (Ohio Ct. App. 1990). But see State v. Daniel, 97 Ohio App.3d 548, 647 N.W.2d 174 (Ohio Ct. App. 1994) (holding that victim’s statements that were compiled soley for initiating prosecution of defendant were exempt as trial preparation records).

If the safety of a victim would be endangered then the record is exempt as a confidential law enforcement investigatory record.  Ohio Rev. Code §§ 149.43(A)(1)(h), 149.43(A)(2)(d).