Rep. Tristan Rader

09/04/2026

Congratulations to The Centers! Today we were very honored to celebrate the opening of the new Glick Recovery Campus in Cleveland today. A first of its kind facility!

This 24/7 facility will connect people in crisis with mental health, addiction treatment, detox, primary care, and recovery services without unnecessary barriers.

When someone needs help, they deserve care, dignity, and a real path to recovery. This is a major step forward for Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. The Centers Juanita Brent Eric K. Synenberg

09/01/2026

Today, I was joined by Representatives Dean, Brewer and Pizzulli on a bipartisan letter to the Ohio Department of Transportation calling on them to take action and stop approving new automated license plate reader permits, review existing installations to revoke permits where legal, and for an account of cameras currently deployed. Our highways belong to the public and should not be used to quietly track law abiding citizens all over the state.

09/01/2026

It’s time to wind down the surveillance state! I am joining a group of bipartisan legislators calling on Ohio Department of Transportation to stop issuing permits for Flock and other types of license plate reader technologies.

08/26/2026

Flock cameras don’t just photograph a license plate. They build a searchable record of where people go, when they go there, and who they may be traveling with.

That is mass data collection… not ordinary police work.

When government can search the movements of people who have not been accused of a crime, we are no longer just investigating crimes after they happen. We are building the machinery to search for crimes—and suspects—before they exist.

Public safety matters. So do warrants, oversight, due process, and the presumption of innocence.

We should not have to surrender everyone’s privacy to investigate someone’s crime. Ohio needs clear statewide guardrails before a patchwork of cameras becomes a statewide surveillance network.

08/25/2026

When the power goes out because a utility failed to maintain its system, the people who paid the price should be made whole first.

That means automatic bill credits for affected customers, and compensation for spoiled food, damaged equipment, lost business and other real losses.

FirstEnergy says it would rather invest its proposed $3 million penalty in Lakewood’s electric grid. Then they should put their money where your mouth is and support my proposal.

My bill will require automatic customer compensation when outages exceed clear limits and tie utility profits to reliable service. If a utility delivers, it earns its full return. If it repeatedly fails, its shareholders earn less.

And any money FirstEnergy commits to fixing Lakewood’s grid must come from shareholders—not be charged back to the same customers who already paid for its failures.

Customers first. Accountability second. Then fix the grid.

Consumer advocates and FirstEnergy, parent company of Cleveland Electric Illuminating, say a $3.05 million penalty the PUCO may levy against the utility for repeated outages should go toward helping customers.

08/22/2026

Congratulations to Sister Susan Zion on her retirement after an extraordinary lifetime of service.

For nearly two decades, Sister Susan led Ursuline Piazza, which she founded in Cleveland to support people living with HIV/AIDS, making sure people too often pushed to the margins were met instead with dignity, compassion, community, and care.

I was honored to join Rep. Chris Glassburn in presenting Sister Susan with a commendation from the Ohio House recognizing her many years of service and the countless lives she has touched.

Our community is better because Sister Susan chose, again and again, to show up for people who needed someone in their corner. Wishing her a very well-earned retirement! ❤️ Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland Chris Glassburn

08/21/2026

Solidarity!!

08/20/2026

$18 Million sounds generous until you do the math. It’s the size of a small rounding error for just one of these trillion dollar corporations. Across AEP’s 1.5 million customers, it’s about $0.19/mo per home over five years. Meanwhile, data centers are fundamentally reshaping Ohio’s electric grid. Ohioans deserve more than a tip.

AEP Ohio and five major data center companies are committing more than $18 million to help Ohio families struggling to pay their electric bills.The utility anno

08/19/2026

Ohio state Rep. Tristan Rader, D-Lakewood, wants state regulators to take a close look at a plan to purchase Dayton’s electric utility, AES. The $10.7 billion deal would take the utility private — putting it in the hands of a group with few ties to the region and investments that might cause con...

08/18/2026

Spent time today with ReliabilityFirst’s Electric Grid Bootcamp for Policymakers — a valuable learning experience at a time when Northeast Ohio is struggling with serious grid reliability problems.

Too many families in our region have dealt with repeated outages, extended restoration times, and growing frustration with a system they depend on every day.

Today gave me a deeper look at how reliability standards are developed and enforced, how the grid is monitored in real time, and how regional transmission organizations and utilities respond to emerging risks.

There is no substitute for understanding how the system actually works if we want to fix it. I’m grateful for the opportunity to learn more, and I’ll keep pushing for a grid that is more reliable, more affordable, and more accountable to Northeast Ohioans.