Safe Communities

His Plan

Richard Cordray will use his experience in the Ohio Attorney General's office to
fight crime in our communities with relentless energy. Partnering with local
prosecutors, sheriffs, police, and neighborhood organizations, Cordray will make
our communities safer with a commitment to justice and the rule of law. Using the
resources of the Attorney General's Office, he will work to provide law
enforcement throughout the state with the tools they need to effectively combat
crime in our cities and towns. Online predators who victimize children or scam
artists who target the elderly will find a fierce opponent in Richard Cordray.

Cordray will also seek out white-collar criminals who prey on the weak and injure
the state's bottom line. Businesses that perpetrate Medicaid fraud and misclassify
their employees to avoid payroll taxes, citizens who seek to defraud Ohio's public
assistance programs, and predatory lenders who cheat people all undermine our
efforts to help those who are legitimately in need, and put the State in a precarious
financial position that affects us all.

His Record

As Ohio's first State Solicitor, Richard Cordray was in charge of all the Attorney
General's toughest cases, especially cases in the U.S. and Ohio Supreme Courts.
He initiated the Criminal Law Project to support local prosecutors in their cases in
the Ohio Supreme Court and advocated in the courts for resumption of the death
penalty in Ohio. As a State Representative, Cordray sponsored legislation to
toughen our crime laws, including creating a new crime of stalking, reforming
death penalty juries, and working with police and children's advocacy groups to
provide new measures to deal with apprehending, fingerprinting, and
photographing juvenile suspects.