Five Cincinnati council members, including Greg Landsman, admitted in a 2019 settlement to violating Ohio's Open Meetings Act; the city paid $101,000, mostly attorney fees, and in 2020 a special prosecutor declined to prosecute a recommended misdemeanor charge

In a settlement made public Mar. 4, 2019, five Cincinnati City Council members, including then-Councilmember Greg Landsman (now a U.S.