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Cleveland is taking a slow approach to sorting out requests to march and demonstrate on city property during the Republican National Convention July 18-21. Philadelphia, which is hosting the Democratic National Convention a week later, has approved one request to demonstrate. City officials there said the requested route of the march was a reasonable distance from the convention site. In this May 23, 2015, photo, police and demonstrators face off downtown. (Joshua Gunter/cleveland.com)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The city of Cleveland didn't release - or even confirm that the city has received -- any new permit applications this week from groups and individuals seeking to use city streets and parks during the Republican National Convention July 18-21.

Yet, a spokesman for the "Coalition to Stop Trump and March on the RNC" said in an email to cleveland.com reporter Andrew Tobias that the group recently filed an application with Cleveland City Hall to demonstrate.

City spokesman Dan Williams offered no explanation for the city not releasing the latest round of applications. He said he would check again with the city's Law Department, which handles the release of the records.

Each week, cleveland.com and other media outlets have been requesting copies of any new applications. Ohio law requires that the city make the applications available to the public.

So far, the city has made public applications from a half-dozen groups that filed in March and April. You can read about them here and here.

But city officials have said they can't evaluate any of the requests until the U.S. Secret Service identifies the security perimeter around the Quicken Loans Arena, the site of the convention. City officials said they don't expect to have the information until two to three weeks before the convention.

By comparison, the city of Philadelphia, which is hosting the Democratic National Convention one week after the GOP holds its convention in Cleveland, has given the green light to Food and Water Watch, an advocacy group that plans to demonstrate during the political event. The name of the demonstration is "March for a Clean Energy Revolution."

The U.S. Secret Service also hasn't identified the security permit in Philadelphia. But Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, told me in an email that the city signed off on Food and Water Watch's request to march from City Hall to Independence Park because the route is likely well outside any security perimeter that would be set around the Wells Fargo Center, the site of the Democratic event. Hitt says the city has received nine applications for demonstrations on city property. Separately, The U.S. Park Service also has approved a demonstration on its property downtown.

In Cleveland, at least one group has requested to use Voinovich Park at North Coast Harbor, which is one mile from the Quicken Loans Arena. Numerous other groups have requested to march in the streets downtown and use outlying parks. The city has not offered any alternative routes or parks to groups requesting space that might be within in a security perimeter.

Several groups, including Organize Ohio, a Cleveland-based grassroots organizing group, have threatened to sue if the city continues to delay evaluating applications or sorting out the requests for the same space.