BOWLING GREEN — A former Rossford police chief was indicted Wednesday on seven counts of improperly using a police computer database.
The fifth-degree felony charges the Wood County grand jury handed up against Glenn Goss, Sr., somewhat echo the conviction four years ago of his son, also a Rossford police officer, of misusing the same database.
The elder Mr. Goss’s indictments list six dates when he is alleged to have improperly used the Law Enforcement Automated Database System for purposes “without the consent of, or beyond the scope of the express or implied consent” of its management committee. Those dates range from Dec. 4, 2019, to April 24, 2024, with two of the counts applying to the final date.
Further details about the charges were not immediately available Thursday.
Mr. Goss was Rossford’s police chief for seven years, ending in 2018 with a resignation he said on social media was geared toward supporting his son’s advancement as a police officer.
Glenn Goss, Jr., had been hired by the department in 2016.
But the younger Mr. Goss then resigned in 2020 after two women he had stopped for traffic violations complained that he contacted them personally after also using the police database to research them.
As part of an ensuing plea agreement, Glenn Goss, Jr., pleaded guilty to two first-degree misdemeanor counts of telecommunications harassment and a single count of unauthorized use of the database. He served two months in jail for the harassment counts, relinquished his Ohio police certification to satisfy the unauthorized-use count, and was fined $1,000.
None of the dates the senior Mr. Goss is alleged to have improperly used the database matches dates in which his son looked up the two motorists’ backgrounds.
First Published March 20, 2025, 5:41 p.m.
