[mhking]

You fail to observe that it is one Ohio law trumping another.

Even if one does trump the other, it is completely unreasonable to demand that a police officer review all of the statute laws in question in a traffic stop situation.

I submit that this is nothing more than a case of parents hiding behind poorly worded statute law as opposed to taking responsibility for their poor decision making and reckless actions.

[RgnadKzin]

Does your belief and not the law make this a criminal act?

Read ORD 4511.81(D) again. Is there any other way to interpret this other than you cannot use the fact that the child was out of restraint in any other criminal or civil action?

They are enforcing Ohio law. They have a duty to know that law. If they enforce something else, then they are enforcing only "color of law," and that is a federal crime; reference 42 USC 1983 &seq.