Ohio does have some horrible animal "control" pracitices. There are still counties that use gas to euthanize animals, and at one point the "gas" in a particular county was back the truck up to the "box" and use the exhaust to gas the animals.

There was a group Called Humane Ohio Education that worked to get laws changed in several of the counties to stop this, but I can no longer find their website, so they may no longer exist.

Part of the problem from my understanding is that there are no state wide laws about this kind of thing, most are on a county basis. Until state wide laws are passed (which is something Humane Ohio was working for), work is done to convince each county to change their ways. Not easy.