Secretive and possibly illegal process was used to decide nearly 26,000 challenges to Cuyahoga County property values

With Plain Dealer Reporter Gabriel Baird

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- More than $400 million in property values was wiped from Cuyahoga County's tax rolls without a public hearing in front of boards of revision in a secretive process that may be illegal and does not happen in the state's other urban counties, The Plain Dealer has found.