Sec. 109.741. The attorney general shall adopt, in | 7 |
accordance with Chapter
119. or pursuant to section 109.74 of the | 8 |
Revised Code, rules governing the
training of peace officers in | 9 |
the handling of missing children, missing persons, and child abuse | 10 |
and neglect cases. The rules shall specify the amount of that | 11 |
training
necessary for the satisfactory completion of basic | 12 |
training programs at
approved peace officer training schools, | 13 |
other than the Ohio peace officer
training academy and the time | 14 |
within which a peace officer is required to
receive that training, | 15 |
if he receives his appointmentthe peace
officer is appointed as a | 16 |
peace officer
before receiving that training. | 17 |
In all cases of the finding of the body or remains of a | 21 |
deceased
person within a county in which a county morgue is | 22 |
maintained, when the identity of the deceased person is
unknown, | 23 |
or the deceased person's relatives or other persons
entitled to | 24 |
the custody of the body or remains of the deceased person are | 25 |
unknown
or not present, the body or remains shall be removed to | 26 |
the county
morgue, where it shall be held for
identification and | 27 |
disposal. | 28 |
(4) Promptly cause the fingerprints, the photographs, and the | 61 |
DNA specimen
to be forwarded to the bureau of criminal | 62 |
identification and
investigation for inclusion in the unidentified | 63 |
person database
in accordance with procedures established by the | 64 |
superintendent
of the bureau under division (H) of section 109.573 | 65 |
of the Revised
Code. The bureau shall provide
the fingerprint | 66 |
forms, specimen vials, mailing tubes, labels,
postage, and | 67 |
instruction needed for the collection and
forwarding to the bureau | 68 |
of the fingerprints and the
DNA specimen and for the forwarding to | 69 |
the bureau of the photographs. | 70 |
(G) The bureau shall provide the fingerprint forms, specimen | 78 |
vials, mailing tubes, labels, postage, and instruction needed for | 79 |
the collection and forwarding to the bureau pursuant to division | 80 |
(E)(4) of this section of the fingerprints and the DNA specimen | 81 |
and for the forwarding pursuant to division (E)(4) of this section | 82 |
to the bureau of the photographs. | 83 |
(B) The attorney general shall publish and distribute to all | 102 |
law enforcement agencies in this state a best practices protocol | 103 |
for addressing reports of missing persons. Upon receipt of the | 104 |
best practices protocol from the attorney general, each law | 105 |
enforcement agency in this state shall develop and adopt a written | 106 |
policy establishing reasonable procedures to be followed by the | 107 |
law enforcement agency when the agency is informed that a person | 108 |
is or may be a missing person. | 109 |
Sec. 2901.42. (A) If a law enforcement agency receives a | 118 |
report that a person is missing and if there is evidence that the | 119 |
person was a victim of foul play at the time the victim is | 120 |
reported missing, the law enforcement agency shall make available | 121 |
through the law enforcement automated data system all information | 122 |
contained in the report not later than seven days after the law | 123 |
enforcement agency receives the report. If there is no evidence | 124 |
that the person was a victim of foul play, the law enforcement | 125 |
agency shall make the information available in the law enforcement | 126 |
automated data system not later than thirty days after receiving | 127 |
the report that the person is missing. | 128 |
(B) If a law enforcement agency receives a report that a | 129 |
person is missing and there is no evidence of foul play at the | 130 |
time the agency receives the report and if the agency discovers | 131 |
after the law enforcement agency receives the report but before | 132 |
the end of the seven-day period under division (A) of this section | 133 |
evidence that the person who is missing was a victim of foul play, | 134 |
the law enforcement agency shall make available through the law | 135 |
enforcement automated data system all information contained in the | 136 |
report by the end of that seven-day period. If a law enforcement | 137 |
agency receives a report that a person is missing and there is no | 138 |
evidence of foul play at the time the agency receives the report | 139 |
and if the agency discovers after the end of the seven-day period | 140 |
under division (A) of this section evidence that the person who is | 141 |
missing was a victim of foul play, the law enforcement agency | 142 |
shall make available through the law enforcement automated data | 143 |
system all information contained in the report not later than | 144 |
forty-eight hours after discovering the evidence that the person | 145 |
was a victim of foul play. | 146 |
(D) As used in this section, indicators that a person was a | 153 |
victim of "foul play" include, but are not limited to, evidence | 154 |
that the person's home or car is in disarray, evidence of a | 155 |
struggle between the person and another person, or evidence a law | 156 |
enforcement agency determines to be foul play through the written | 157 |
policy the law enforcement agency develops and adopts pursuant to | 158 |
division (B) of section 2901.41 of the Revised Code. | 159 |