Lara Baker-Morrish, Chief Prosecutor 375 South High Street Columbus, Ohio 43215 614-645-7483 Fax : 614-645-8902
“The city attorney shall be the prosecuting attorney of municipal court. He may detail such of his assistants as he may deem proper to assist in such work. He shall prosecute all cases brought before such court and perform the same duties, so far as they are applicable thereto, as are required of the prosecuting attorney of the county.” Columbus City Charter, section 68
The Prosecutor’s Division prosecutes criminal misdemeanor offenses in the Franklin County Municipal Court not only for the City of Columbus, but for the State of Ohio, Franklin County’s townships and, under contract, to the villages of Canal Winchester, Lockbourne, Marble Cliff, Obetz, Riverlea, Urbancrest and Valleyview, as well as the municipalities of Worthington.
Also within the Prosecutor’s Division are housed (click on each to learn more):