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PA Bill Number: SB1357

Title: In preparation for and conduct of primaries and elections, further providing for peace officers, no police officer to be within one hundred feet of ...

Description: In preparation for and conduct of primaries and elections, further providing for peace officers, no police officer to be within one hundred feet of ...

Last Action: Referred to State Government

Last Action Date: Jun 4, 2026

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Ohio gun violence costs lives, millions of dollars :: 05/30/2011

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gun violence in Ohio is costing scores of lives and millions of dollars annually across the state, though much of it happens in the largest cities, according to a newspaper analysis published Sunday.

The Columbus Dispatch analyzed state records and data from 2009, which offer the most recent statewide statistics available. It found guns were present in more than 12,500 incidents investigated by authorities, an average of 34 per day. Four-fifths of those happened in seven of Ohio's largest cities: Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo and Youngstown.

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