(1) No later than July 1, 1997, establish and maintain a state registry of
sex offenders and child-victim offenders that is housed at the bureau of
criminal identification and investigation and that contains all of the
registration, change of residence, school, institution of higher education, or
place of employment address, and verification information the bureau receives
pursuant to sections 2950.04, 2950.041,
2950.05,
and 2950.06 of
the Revised Code regarding each person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to,
has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to a sexually oriented offense or
a child-victim oriented offense and each person who is or has been adjudicated
a delinquent child for committing a sexually oriented offense or a
child-victim oriented offense and is classified a juvenile offender registrant
or is an out-of-state juvenile offender registrant based on that adjudication,
all of the information the bureau receives pursuant to section 2950.14
of the Revised Code, and any notice of an order terminating or modifying an
offender’s or delinquent child’s duty to comply with sections 2950.04,
2950.041, 2950.05,
and 2950.06 of
the Revised Code the bureau receives pursuant to section 2152.84,
2152.85, or 2950.15
of the Revised Code. For a person who was convicted of or pleaded guilty to
the sexually oriented offense or child-victim related offense, the registry
also shall indicate whether the person was convicted of or pleaded guilty to
the offense in a criminal prosecution or in a serious youthful offender case.
The registry shall not be open to inspection by the public or by any person
other than a person identified in division (A) of section 2950.08
of the Revised Code. In addition to the information and material previously
identified in this division, the registry shall include all of the following
regarding each person who is listed in the registry:
(a) A citation for, and the name of, all sexually oriented offenses or
child-victim oriented offenses of which the person was convicted, to which the
person pleaded guilty, or for which the person was adjudicated a delinquent
child and that resulted in a registration duty, and the date on which those
offenses were committed;
(b) The text of the sexually oriented offenses or child-victim oriented
offenses identified in division (A)(1)(a) of this section as those offenses
existed at the time the person was convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or was
adjudicated a delinquent child for committing those offenses, or a link to a
database that sets forth the text of those offenses;
(c) A statement as to whether the person is a tier I sex
offender/child-victim offender, a tier II sex offender/child-victim offender,
or a tier III sex offender/child-victim offender for
the sexually oriented offenses or child-victim oriented offenses identified in
division (A)(1)(a) of this section;
(d) The community supervision status of the person, including, but not
limited to, whether the person is serving a community control sanction and the
nature of any such sanction, whether the person is under supervised release
and the nature of the release, or regarding a juvenile, whether the juvenile
is under any type of release authorized under Chapter 2152 or 5139 of the
Revised Code and the nature of any such release;
(e) The offense and delinquency history of the person, as determined from
information gathered or provided under sections 109.57
and 2950.14 of
the Revised Code;
(f) The bureau of criminal identification and investigation tracking number
assigned to the person if one has been so assigned, the federal bureau of
investigation number assigned to the person if one has been assigned and the
bureau of criminal identification and investigation is aware of the number,
and any other state identification number assigned to the person of which the
bureau is aware;
(g) Fingerprints and palmprints of the person;
(h) A DNA specimen, as defined in section 109.573
of the Revised Code, from the person;
(i) Whether the person has any outstanding arrest warrants;
(j) Whether the person is in compliance with the person’s duties under
this chapter.
(2) In consultation with local law enforcement representatives and no later
than July 1, 1997, adopt rules that contain guidelines necessary for the
implementation of this chapter;
(3) In consultation with local law enforcement representatives, adopt rules
for the implementation and administration of the provisions contained in
section 2950.11
of the Revised Code that pertain to the notification of neighbors of an
offender or a delinquent child who has committed a sexually oriented offense
or a child-victim oriented offense and and is in a category specified in
division (F)(1) of that section and rules that prescribe a manner in which
victims of a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense
committed by an offender or a delinquent child who is in a category specified
in division (B)(1) of section 2950.10
of the Revised Code may make a request that specifies that the victim would
like to be provided the notices described in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of
section 2950.10
of the Revised Code;
(4) In consultation with local law enforcement representatives and through
the bureau of criminal identification and investigation, prescribe the forms
to be used by judges and officials pursuant to section 2950.03
or 2950.032
of the Revised Code to advise offenders and delinquent children of their
duties of filing a notice of intent to reside, registration, notification of a
change of residence, school, institution of higher education, or place of
employment address and registration of the new, school, institution of higher
education, or place of employment address, as applicable, and address
verification under sections 2950.04,
2950.041, 2950.05,
and 2950.06 of
the Revised Code, and prescribe the forms to be used by sheriffs relative to
those duties of filing a notice of intent to reside, registration, change of
residence, school, institution of higher education, or place of employment
address notification, and address verification;
(5) Make copies of the forms prescribed under division (A)(4) of this
section available to judges, officials, and sheriffs;
(6) Through the bureau of criminal identification and investigation,
provide the notifications, the information and materials, and the documents
that the bureau is required to provide to appropriate law enforcement
officials and to the federal bureau of investigation pursuant to sections 2950.04,
2950.041, 2950.05,
and 2950.06 of
the Revised Code;
(7) Through the bureau of criminal identification and investigation,
maintain the verification forms returned under the address verification
mechanism set forth in section 2950.06
of the Revised Code;
(8) In consultation with representatives of the officials, judges, and
sheriffs, adopt procedures for officials, judges, and sheriffs to use to
forward information, photographs, and fingerprints to the bureau of criminal
identification and investigation pursuant to the requirements of sections 2950.03,
2950.04, 2950.041,
2950.05, 2950.06,
and 2950.11 of
the Revised Code;
(9) In consultation with the director of education, the director of job and
family services, and the director of rehabilitation and correction, adopt
rules that contain guidelines to be followed by boards of education of a
school district, chartered nonpublic schools or other schools not operated by
a board of education, preschool programs, child day-care centers, type A
family day-care homes, certified type B family day-care homes, and
institutions of higher education regarding the proper use and administration
of information received pursuant to section 2950.11
of the Revised Code relative to an offender or delinquent child who has
committed a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense and
is in a category specified in division (F)(1) of that section;
(10) In consultation with local law enforcement representatives and no
later than July 1, 1997, adopt rules that designate a geographic area or areas
within which the notice described in division (B) of section 2950.11
of the Revised Code must be given to the persons identified in divisions
(A)(2) to (8) and (A)(10) of that section;
(11) Through the bureau of criminal identification and investigation, not
later than January 1, 2004, establish and operate on the internet a sex
offender and child-victim offender database that contains information for
every offender who has committed a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim
oriented offense and registers in any county in this state pursuant to section
2950.04 or 2950.041
of the Revised Code and for every delinquent child who has committed a
sexually oriented offense, is a public registry-qualified juvenile offender
registrant, and registers in any county in this state pursuant to either such
section. The bureau shall not include on the database the identity of any
offender’s or public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant’s
victim, any offender’s or public registry-qualified juvenile offender
registrant’s social security number, the name of any school or institution
of higher education attended by any offender or public registry-qualified
juvenile offender registrant, the name of the place of employment of any
offender or public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant, any
tracking or identification number described in division (A)(1)(f) of this
section, or any information described in division (C)(7) of section 2950.04
or 2950.041
of the Revised Code. The bureau shall provide on the database, for each
offender and each public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant, at
least the information specified in divisions (A)(11)(a) to (h) of this
section. Otherwise, the bureau shall determine the information to be provided
on the database for each offender and public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant and shall obtain that information from the information
contained in the state registry of sex offenders and child-victim offenders
described in division (A)(1) of this section, which information, while in the
possession of the sheriff who provided it, is a public record open for
inspection as described in section 2950.081
of the Revised Code. The database is a public record open for inspection under
section 149.43
of the Revised Code, and it shall be searchable by offender or public
registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant name, by county, by zip code,
and by school district. The database shall provide a link to the web site of
each sheriff who has established and operates on the internet a sex offender
and child-victim offender database that contains information for offenders and
public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants who register in that
county pursuant to section 2950.04
or 2950.041
of the Revised Code, with the link being a direct link to the sex offender and
child-victim offender database for the sheriff. The bureau shall provide on
the database, for each offender and public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant, at least the following information:
(a) The information described in divisions (A)(1)(a), (b), (c), and (d) of
this section relative to the offender or public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant;
(b) The address of the offender’s or public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant’s school, institution of higher education, or place of
employment provided in a registration form;
(c) The information described in division (C)(6) of section
2950.04
or 2950.041
of the Revised Code;
(d) A chart describing which sexually oriented offenses and child-victim
oriented offenses are included in the definitions of tier I sex
offender/child-victim offender, tier II sex offender/child-victim offender,
and tier III sex offender/child-victim offender;
(e) Fingerprints and palm prints of the offender or public
registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant and a DNA
specimen from the offender or public registry-qualified juvenile offender
registrant;
(f) The information set forth in division (B) of section
2950.11
of the Revised Code;
(g) Any outstanding arrest warrants for the offender or public
registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant;
(h) The offender’s or public registry-qualified juvenile offender
registrant’s compliance status with duties under this chapter.
(12) Develop software to be used by sheriffs in establishing on the
internet a sex offender and child-victim offender database for the public
dissemination of some or all of the information and materials described in
division (A) of section 2950.081
of the Revised Code that are public records under that division, that are not
prohibited from inclusion by division (B) of that section, and that pertain to
offenders and public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants who
register in the sheriff’s county pursuant to section 2950.04
or 2950.041
of the Revised Code and for the public dissemination of information the
sheriff receives pursuant to section 2950.14
of the Revised Code and, upon the request of any sheriff, provide technical
guidance to the requesting sheriff in establishing on the internet such a
database;
(13) Through the bureau of criminal identification and investigation, not
later than January 1, 2004, establish and operate on the internet a database
that enables local law enforcement representatives to remotely search by
electronic means the state registry of sex offenders and child-victim
offenders described in division (A)(1) of this section and any information and
materials the bureau receives pursuant to sections 2950.04,
2950.041, 2950.05,
2950.06, and 2950.14
of the Revised Code. The database shall enable local law enforcement
representatives to obtain detailed information regarding each offender and
delinquent child who is included in the registry, including, but not limited
to the offender’s or delinquent child’s name, aliases, residence address,
name and address of any place of employment, school, institution of higher
education, if applicable, license plate number of each vehicle identified in
division (C)(5) of section 2950.04
or 2950.041
of the Revised Code to the extent applicable, victim preference if available,
date of most recent release from confinement if applicable, fingerprints, and
palmprints, all of the information and material described in division
(A)(1)(a) to (h) of this section regarding the offender or delinquent child,
and other identification parameters the bureau considers appropriate. The
database is not a public record open for inspection under section 149.43
of the Revised Code and shall be available only to law enforcement
representatives as described in this division. Information obtained by local
law enforcement representatives through use of this database is not open to
inspection by the public or by any person other than a person identified in
division (A) of section 2950.08
of the Revised Code.
(14) Through the bureau of criminal identification and investigation,
maintain a list of requests for notice about a specified offender or
delinquent child or specified geographical notification area made pursuant to
division (J) of section 2950.11
of the Revised Code and, when an offender or delinquent child changes
residence to another county, forward any requests for information about that
specific offender or delinquent child to the appropriate sheriff;
(15) Through the bureau of criminal identification and investigation,
establish and operate a system for the immediate notification by electronic
means of the appropriate officials in other states specified in this division
each time an offender or delinquent child registers a residence, school,
institution of higher education, or place of employment address under section 2950.04
or 2950.041
of the revised Code or provides a notice of a change of address or registers a
new address under division (A) or (B) of section 2950.05
of the Revised Code. The immediate notification by electronic means shall be
provided to the appropriate officials in each state in which the offender or
delinquent child is required to register a residence, school, institution of
higher education, or place of employment address. The notification shall
contain the offender’s or delinquent child’s name and all of the
information the bureau receives from the sheriff with whom the offender or
delinquent child registered the address or provided the notice of change of
address or registered the new address.
(B) The attorney general in consultation with local law enforcement
representatives, may adopt rules that establish one or more categories of
neighbors of an offender or delinquent child who, in addition to the occupants
of residential premises and other persons specified in division (A)(1) of
section 2950.11
of the Revised Code, must be given the notice described in division (B) of
that section.
(C) No person, other than a local law enforcement representative, shall
knowingly do any of the following:
(D) As used in this section, “local law enforcement representatives”
means representatives of the sheriffs of this state, representatives of the
municipal chiefs of police and marshals of this state, and representatives of
the township constables and chiefs of police of the township police
departments or police district police forces of this state.
