I received an email the other day from PR & Company, a San Francisco-based public relations

I received an email the other day from PR & Company, a San Francisco-based public relations firm, pitching a “Justice for All?” report by the Women Donors Network’s Reflective Democracy Campaign about the lack of diversity among prosecutors.

The first line read: “Ohio is one of 15 states where all elected prosecutor positions are held by white men.”

I repeated it on my Twitter feed with no plans to write anything more. Then something interesting happened. A number of my astute Twitter followers – including state Auditor Dave Yost and state Rep. Emily Sykes – let me know about various female elected county prosecutors in Ohio. From their count, 12 of the state’s 88 county prosecutors are women. It became a game to find more female prosecutors and numerous people were quite good at it.

After discovering the mistake, I emailed PR & Co. to alert the firm.

The response, sent to several journalists, read: “Please disregard the pitch you received within the last hour regarding the Justice for All? report. You accidentally received a regional note that was meant to be sent to media in states that do not have female or African American elected prosecutors. Please disregard the note and we regret any confusion it may have caused.” It ended with, “Apologies for the error.”