Juanita O. Brent News

State Rep. Juanita O. Brent (D-Cleveland) celebrates Black Maternal Health Week.

State Representative Juanita O. Brent (D-Cleveland) announced that the State Controlling Board approved capital funding totaling $608,000 to support Cuyahoga Community College. 

State Representatives Juanita O. Brent (D-Cleveland) and Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today sent a letter to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose urging him to engage a third party firm to audit his recent voter purge. The purge revealed over 16,000 voters were initially mislabeled as ineligible to vote.

State Representative Juanita O. Brent made a statement today ahead of the 50th anniversary of Roe V. Wade and its federal overturning.

Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law Bill (HB) 458, which would mandate specific forms of I.D at the polls and shorten voting timelines pre and post-election day options. 

COLUMBUS–State Reps. Casey Weinstein (D-Hudson) and Juanita Brent (D-Cleveland) issued a statement after the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) held the first meeting Wednesday of its ongoing review into why AEP decided to shut off power to thousands of homes after severe storms and a heatwave swept through Central Ohio in late June. During the meeting, AEP expressed that climate change contributed to the extreme weather that caused the outage. Reps. Weinstein and Brent renewed their calls for the legislature to take action on the Energy Jobs and Justice Act, their comprehensive clean energy policy that would promote energy equity, lower carbon emissions and create utility accountability and transparency.