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To amend sections 109.57, 109.572, 109.60, 1347.08, | 1 |
1717.14, 2151.011, 2151.281, 2151.353, 2151.416, | 2 |
2151.421, 3107.014, 3107.015, 3107.016, 3107.031, | 3 |
3107.032, 3107.17, 3109.16, 3109.17, 5101.141, | 4 |
5101.29, 5101.35, 5101.72, 5101.99, 5103.031, | 5 |
5103.033, 5103.034, 5103.035, 5103.036, 5103.038, | 6 |
5103.039, 5103.0311, 5103.0312, 5103.0313, | 7 |
5103.0315, 5103.07, 5104.01, 5104.11, 5104.31, | 8 |
5153.01, 5153.111, 5153.122, 5153.16, 5153.17, | 9 |
5153.60, 5153.61, 5153.62, 5153.63, 5153.64, | 10 |
5153.65, 5153.66, 5153.67, 5153.70, 5153.71, | 11 |
5153.72, 5153.73, 5153.74, 5153.75, 5153.76, | 12 |
5153.77, and 5153.78; to amend, for the purpose of | 13 |
adopting new section numbers as indicated in | 14 |
parentheses, sections 5153.60 (5103.30), 5153.61 | 15 |
(5103.35), 5153.62 (5103.36), 5153.63 (5103.362), | 16 |
5153.64 (5103.363), 5153.65 (5103.37), 5153.66 | 17 |
(5103.39), 5153.67 (5103.391), 5153.70 (5103.38), | 18 |
5153.71 (5103.41), 5153.72 (5103.42), 5153.73 | 19 |
(5103.421), 5153.74 (5103.422), 5153.75 | 20 |
(5153.125), 5153.76 (5153.126), 5153.77 | 21 |
(5153.127), and 5153.78 (5103.32); to enact | 22 |
sections 2151.423, 5101.13, 5101.131, 5101.132, | 23 |
5101.133, 5101.134, 5103.301, 5103.302, 5103.303, | 24 |
5103.31, 5103.33, 5103.34, 5103.361, 5103.40, | 25 |
5153.123, 5153.124, and 5153.166; and to repeal | 26 |
sections 5103.037, 5153.68, and 5153.69 of the | 27 |
Revised Code to revise the law governing child | 28 |
welfare and other laws regarding the Department of | 29 |
Job and Family Services. | 30 |
Section 1. That sections 109.57, 109.572, 109.60, 1347.08, | 31 |
1717.14, 2151.011, 2151.281, 2151.353, 2151.416, 2151.421, | 32 |
3107.014, 3107.015, 3107.016, 3107.031, 3107.032, 3107.17, | 33 |
3109.16, 3109.17, 5101.141, 5101.29, 5101.35, 5101.72, 5101.99, | 34 |
5103.031, 5103.033, 5103.034, 5103.035, 5103.036, 5103.038, | 35 |
5103.039, 5103.0311, 5103.0312, 5103.0313, 5103.0315, 5103.07, | 36 |
5104.01, 5104.11, 5104.31, 5153.01, 5153.111, 5153.122, 5153.16, | 37 |
5153.17, 5153.60, 5153.61, 5153.62, 5153.63, 5153.64, 5153.65, | 38 |
5153.66, 5153.67, 5153.70, 5153.71, 5153.72, 5153.73, 5153.74, | 39 |
5153.75, 5153.76, 5153.77, and 5153.78 be amended; sections | 40 |
5153.60 (5103.30), 5153.61 (5103.35), 5153.62 (5103.36), 5153.63 | 41 |
(5103.362), 5153.64 (5103.363), 5153.65 (5103.37), 5153.66 | 42 |
(5103.39), 5153.67 (5103.391), 5153.70 (5103.38), 5153.71 | 43 |
(5103.41), 5153.72 (5103.42), 5153.73 (5103.421), 5153.74 | 44 |
(5103.422), 5153.75 (5153.125), 5153.76 (5153.126), 5153.77 | 45 |
(5153.127), and 5153.78 (5103.32) be amended for the purpose of | 46 |
adopting new section numbers as indicated in parentheses; and | 47 |
sections 2151.423, 5101.13, 5101.131, 5101.132, 5101.133, | 48 |
5101.134, 5103.301, 5103.302, 5103.303, 5103.31, 5103.33, 5103.34, | 49 |
5103.361, 5103.40, 5153.123, 5153.124, and 5153.166 of the Revised | 50 |
Code be enacted to read as follows: | 51 |
Sec. 109.57. (A)(1) The superintendent of the bureau of | 52 |
criminal identification and investigation shall procure from | 53 |
wherever procurable and file for record photographs, pictures, | 54 |
descriptions, fingerprints, measurements, and other information | 55 |
that may be pertinent of all persons who have been convicted of | 56 |
committing within this state a felony, any crime constituting a | 57 |
misdemeanor on the first offense and a felony on subsequent | 58 |
offenses, or any misdemeanor described in division (A)(1)(a) or | 59 |
(A)(10)(a) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code, of all children | 60 |
under eighteen years of age who have been adjudicated delinquent | 61 |
children for committing within this state an act that would be a | 62 |
felony or an offense of violence if committed by an adult or who | 63 |
have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to committing within this | 64 |
state a felony or an offense of violence, and of all well-known | 65 |
and habitual criminals. The person in charge of any county, | 66 |
multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal | 67 |
jail or workhouse, community-based correctional facility, halfway | 68 |
house, alternative residential facility, or state correctional | 69 |
institution and the person in charge of any state institution | 70 |
having custody of a person suspected of having committed a felony, | 71 |
any crime constituting a misdemeanor on the first offense and a | 72 |
felony on subsequent offenses, or any misdemeanor described in | 73 |
division (A)(1)(a) or (A)(10)(a) of section 109.572 of the Revised | 74 |
Code or having custody of a child under eighteen years of age with | 75 |
respect to whom there is probable cause to believe that the child | 76 |
may have committed an act that would be a felony or an offense of | 77 |
violence if committed by an adult shall furnish such material to | 78 |
the superintendent of the bureau. Fingerprints, photographs, or | 79 |
other descriptive information of a child who is under eighteen | 80 |
years of age, has not been arrested or otherwise taken into | 81 |
custody for committing an act that would be a felony or an offense | 82 |
of violence if committed by an adult, has not been adjudicated a | 83 |
delinquent child for committing an act that would be a felony or | 84 |
an offense of violence if committed by an adult, has not been | 85 |
convicted of or pleaded guilty to committing a felony or an | 86 |
offense of violence, and is not a child with respect to whom there | 87 |
is probable cause to believe that the child may have committed an | 88 |
act that would be a felony or an offense of violence if committed | 89 |
by an adult shall not be procured by the superintendent or | 90 |
furnished by any person in charge of any county, multicounty, | 91 |
municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or | 92 |
workhouse, community-based correctional facility, halfway house, | 93 |
alternative residential facility, or state correctional | 94 |
institution, except as authorized in section 2151.313 of the | 95 |
Revised Code. | 96 |
(2) Every clerk of a court of record in this state, other | 97 |
than the supreme court or a court of appeals, shall send to the | 98 |
superintendent of the bureau a weekly report containing a summary | 99 |
of each case involving a felony, involving any crime constituting | 100 |
a misdemeanor on the first offense and a felony on subsequent | 101 |
offenses, involving a misdemeanor described in division (A)(1)(a) | 102 |
or (A)(10)(a) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code, or involving | 103 |
an adjudication in a case in which a child under eighteen years of | 104 |
age was alleged to be a delinquent child for committing an act | 105 |
that would be a felony or an offense of violence if committed by | 106 |
an adult. The clerk of the court of common pleas shall include in | 107 |
the report and summary the clerk sends under this division all | 108 |
information described in divisions (A)(2)(a) to (f) of this | 109 |
section regarding a case before the court of appeals that is | 110 |
served by that clerk. The summary shall be written on the standard | 111 |
forms furnished by the superintendent pursuant to division (B) of | 112 |
this section and shall include the following information: | 113 |
(a) The incident tracking number contained on the standard | 114 |
forms furnished by the superintendent pursuant to division (B) of | 115 |
this section; | 116 |
(b) The style and number of the case; | 117 |
(c) The date of arrest; | 118 |
(d) The date that the person was convicted of or pleaded | 119 |
guilty to the offense, adjudicated a delinquent child for | 120 |
committing the act that would be a felony or an offense of | 121 |
violence if committed by an adult, found not guilty of the | 122 |
offense, or found not to be a delinquent child for committing an | 123 |
act that would be a felony or an offense of violence if committed | 124 |
by an adult, the date of an entry dismissing the charge, an entry | 125 |
declaring a mistrial of the offense in which the person is | 126 |
discharged, an entry finding that the person or child is not | 127 |
competent to stand trial, or an entry of a nolle prosequi, or the | 128 |
date of any other determination that constitutes final resolution | 129 |
of the case; | 130 |
(e) A statement of the original charge with the section of | 131 |
the Revised Code that was alleged to be violated; | 132 |
(f) If the person or child was convicted, pleaded guilty, or | 133 |
was adjudicated a delinquent child, the sentence or terms of | 134 |
probation imposed or any other disposition of the offender or the | 135 |
delinquent child. | 136 |
If the offense involved the disarming of a law enforcement | 137 |
officer or an attempt to disarm a law enforcement officer, the | 138 |
clerk shall clearly state that fact in the summary, and the | 139 |
superintendent shall ensure that a clear statement of that fact is | 140 |
placed in the bureau's records. | 141 |
(3) The superintendent shall cooperate with and assist | 142 |
sheriffs, chiefs of police, and other law enforcement officers in | 143 |
the establishment of a complete system of criminal identification | 144 |
and in obtaining fingerprints and other means of identification of | 145 |
all persons arrested on a charge of a felony, any crime | 146 |
constituting a misdemeanor on the first offense and a felony on | 147 |
subsequent offenses, or a misdemeanor described in division | 148 |
(A)(1)(a) or (A)(10)(a) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and | 149 |
of all children under eighteen years of age arrested or otherwise | 150 |
taken into custody for committing an act that would be a felony or | 151 |
an offense of violence if committed by an adult. The | 152 |
superintendent also shall file for record the fingerprint | 153 |
impressions of all persons confined in a county, multicounty, | 154 |
municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or | 155 |
workhouse, community-based correctional facility, halfway house, | 156 |
alternative residential facility, or state correctional | 157 |
institution for the violation of state laws and of all children | 158 |
under eighteen years of age who are confined in a county, | 159 |
multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal | 160 |
jail or workhouse, community-based correctional facility, halfway | 161 |
house, alternative residential facility, or state correctional | 162 |
institution or in any facility for delinquent children for | 163 |
committing an act that would be a felony or an offense of violence | 164 |
if committed by an adult, and any other information that the | 165 |
superintendent may receive from law enforcement officials of the | 166 |
state and its political subdivisions. | 167 |
(4) The superintendent shall carry out Chapter 2950. of the | 168 |
Revised Code with respect to the registration of persons who are | 169 |
convicted of or plead guilty to either a sexually oriented offense | 170 |
that is not a registration-exempt sexually oriented offense or a | 171 |
child-victim oriented offense and with respect to all other duties | 172 |
imposed on the bureau under that chapter. | 173 |
(5) The bureau shall perform centralized recordkeeping | 174 |
functions for criminal history records and services in this state | 175 |
for purposes of the national crime prevention and privacy compact | 176 |
set forth in section 109.571 of the Revised Code and is the | 177 |
criminal history record repository as defined in that section for | 178 |
purposes of that compact. The superintendent or the | 179 |
superintendent's designee is the compact officer for purposes of | 180 |
that compact and shall carry out the responsibilities of the | 181 |
compact officer specified in that compact. | 182 |
(B) The superintendent shall prepare and furnish to every | 183 |
county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or | 184 |
multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, community-based | 185 |
correctional facility, halfway house, alternative residential | 186 |
facility, or state correctional institution and to every clerk of | 187 |
a court in this state specified in division (A)(2) of this section | 188 |
standard forms for reporting the information required under | 189 |
division (A) of this section. The standard forms that the | 190 |
superintendent prepares pursuant to this division may be in a | 191 |
tangible format, in an electronic format, or in both tangible | 192 |
formats and electronic formats. | 193 |
(C) The superintendent may operate a center for electronic, | 194 |
automated, or other data processing for the storage and retrieval | 195 |
of information, data, and statistics pertaining to criminals and | 196 |
to children under eighteen years of age who are adjudicated | 197 |
delinquent children for committing an act that would be a felony | 198 |
or an offense of violence if committed by an adult, criminal | 199 |
activity, crime prevention, law enforcement, and criminal justice, | 200 |
and may establish and operate a statewide communications network | 201 |
to gather and disseminate information, data, and statistics for | 202 |
the use of law enforcement agencies. The superintendent may | 203 |
gather, store, retrieve, and disseminate information, data, and | 204 |
statistics that pertain to children who are under eighteen years | 205 |
of age and that are gathered pursuant to sections 109.57 to 109.61 | 206 |
of the Revised Code together with information, data, and | 207 |
statistics that pertain to adults and that are gathered pursuant | 208 |
to those sections. In addition to any other authorized use of | 209 |
information, data, and statistics of that nature, the | 210 |
superintendent or the superintendent's designee may provide and | 211 |
exchange the information, data, and statistics pursuant to the | 212 |
national crime prevention and privacy compact as described in | 213 |
division (A)(5) of this section. | 214 |
(D) The information and materials furnished to the | 215 |
superintendent pursuant to division (A) of this section and | 216 |
information and materials furnished to any board or person under | 217 |
division (F) or (G) of this section are not public records under | 218 |
section 149.43 of the Revised Code. | 219 |
(E) The attorney general shall adopt rules, in accordance | 220 |
with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, setting forth the procedure | 221 |
by which a person may receive or release information gathered by | 222 |
the superintendent pursuant to division (A) of this section. A | 223 |
reasonable fee may be charged for this service. If a temporary | 224 |
employment service submits a request for a determination of | 225 |
whether a person the service plans to refer to an employment | 226 |
position has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense | 227 |
listed in division (A)(1), (3), (4), (5), or (6) of section | 228 |
109.572 of the Revised Code, the request shall be treated as a | 229 |
single request and only one fee shall be charged. | 230 |
(F)(1) As used in division (F)(2) of this section, "head | 231 |
start agency" means an entity in this state that has been approved | 232 |
to be an agency for purposes of subchapter II of the "Community | 233 |
Economic Development Act," 95 Stat. 489 (1981), 42 U.S.C.A. 9831, | 234 |
as amended. | 235 |
(2)(a) In addition to or in conjunction with any request that | 236 |
is required to be made under section 109.572, 2151.86, 3301.32, | 237 |
3301.541, 3319.39, 3701.881, 5104.012, 5104.013, 5123.081, | 238 |
5126.28, 5126.281, or 5153.111 of the Revised Code, the board of | 239 |
education of any school district; the director of mental | 240 |
retardation and developmental disabilities; any county board of | 241 |
mental retardation and developmental disabilities; any entity | 242 |
under contract with a county board of mental retardation and | 243 |
developmental disabilities; the chief administrator of any | 244 |
chartered nonpublic school; the chief administrator of any home | 245 |
health agency; the chief administrator of or person operating any | 246 |
child day-care center, type A family day-care home, or type B | 247 |
family day-care home licensed or certified under Chapter 5104. of | 248 |
the Revised Code; the administrator of any type C family day-care | 249 |
home certified pursuant to Section 1 of Sub. H.B. 62 of the 121st | 250 |
general assembly or Section 5 of Am. Sub. S.B. 160 of the 121st | 251 |
general assembly; the chief administrator of any head start | 252 |
agency; or the executive director of a public children services | 253 |
agency may request that the superintendent of the bureau | 254 |
investigate and determine, with respect to any individual who has | 255 |
applied for employment in any position after October 2, 1989, or | 256 |
any individual wishing to apply for employment with a board of | 257 |
education may request, with regard to the individual, whether the | 258 |
bureau has any information gathered under division (A) of this | 259 |
section that pertains to that individual. On receipt of the | 260 |
request, the superintendent shall determine whether that | 261 |
information exists and, upon request of the person, board, or | 262 |
entity requesting information, also shall request from the federal | 263 |
bureau of investigation any criminal records it has pertaining to | 264 |
that individual. The superintendent or the superintendent's | 265 |
designee also may request criminal history records from other | 266 |
states or the federal government pursuant to the national crime | 267 |
prevention and privacy compact set forth in section 109.571 of the | 268 |
Revised Code. Within thirty days of the date that the | 269 |
superintendent receives a request, the superintendent shall send | 270 |
to the board, entity, or person a report of any information that | 271 |
the superintendent determines exists, including information | 272 |
contained in records that have been sealed under section 2953.32 | 273 |
of the Revised Code, and, within thirty days of its receipt, shall | 274 |
send the board, entity, or person a report of any information | 275 |
received from the federal bureau of investigation, other than | 276 |
information the dissemination of which is prohibited by federal | 277 |
law. | 278 |
(b) When a board of education is required to receive | 279 |
information under this section as a prerequisite to employment of | 280 |
an individual pursuant to section 3319.39 of the Revised Code, it | 281 |
may accept a certified copy of records that were issued by the | 282 |
bureau of criminal identification and investigation and that are | 283 |
presented by an individual applying for employment with the | 284 |
district in lieu of requesting that information itself. In such a | 285 |
case, the board shall accept the certified copy issued by the | 286 |
bureau in order to make a photocopy of it for that individual's | 287 |
employment application documents and shall return the certified | 288 |
copy to the individual. In a case of that nature, a district only | 289 |
shall accept a certified copy of records of that nature within one | 290 |
year after the date of their issuance by the bureau. | 291 |
(3) The state board of education may request, with respect to | 292 |
any individual who has applied for employment after October 2, | 293 |
1989, in any position with the state board or the department of | 294 |
education, any information that a school district board of | 295 |
education is authorized to request under division (F)(2) of this | 296 |
section, and the superintendent of the bureau shall proceed as if | 297 |
the request has been received from a school district board of | 298 |
education under division (F)(2) of this section. | 299 |
(4) When the superintendent of the bureau receives a request | 300 |
for information under section 3319.291 of the Revised Code, the | 301 |
superintendent shall proceed as if the request has been received | 302 |
from a school district board of education under division (F)(2) of | 303 |
this section. | 304 |
(5) When a recipient of a classroom reading improvement grant | 305 |
paid under section 3301.86 of the Revised Code requests, with | 306 |
respect to any individual who applies to participate in providing | 307 |
any program or service funded in whole or in part by the grant, | 308 |
the information that a school district board of education is | 309 |
authorized to request under division (F)(2)(a) of this section, | 310 |
the superintendent of the bureau shall proceed as if the request | 311 |
has been received from a school district board of education under | 312 |
division (F)(2)(a) of this section. | 313 |
(G) In addition to or in conjunction with any request that is | 314 |
required to be made under section 173.41, 3701.881, 3712.09, | 315 |
3721.121, or 3722.151 of the Revised Code with respect to an | 316 |
individual who has applied for employment in a position that | 317 |
involves providing direct care to an older adult, the chief | 318 |
administrator of a PASSPORT agency that provides services through | 319 |
the PASSPORT program created under section 173.40 of the Revised | 320 |
Code, home health agency, hospice care program, home licensed | 321 |
under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code, adult day-care program | 322 |
operated pursuant to rules adopted under section 3721.04 of the | 323 |
Revised Code, or adult care facility may request that the | 324 |
superintendent of the bureau investigate and determine, with | 325 |
respect to any individual who has applied after January 27, 1997, | 326 |
for employment in a position that does not involve providing | 327 |
direct care to an older adult, whether the bureau has any | 328 |
information gathered under division (A) of this section that | 329 |
pertains to that individual. On receipt of the request, the | 330 |
superintendent shall determine whether that information exists | 331 |
and, on request of the administrator requesting information, shall | 332 |
also request from the federal bureau of investigation any criminal | 333 |
records it has pertaining to that individual. The superintendent | 334 |
or the superintendent's designee also may request criminal history | 335 |
records from other states or the federal government pursuant to | 336 |
the national crime prevention and privacy compact set forth in | 337 |
section 109.571 of the Revised Code. Within thirty days of the | 338 |
date a request is received, the superintendent shall send to the | 339 |
administrator a report of any information determined to exist, | 340 |
including information contained in records that have been sealed | 341 |
under section 2953.32 of the Revised Code, and, within thirty days | 342 |
of its receipt, shall send the administrator a report of any | 343 |
information received from the federal bureau of investigation, | 344 |
other than information the dissemination of which is prohibited by | 345 |
federal law. | 346 |
(H) Information obtained by a board, administrator, or other | 347 |
person under this section is confidential and shall not be | 348 |
released or disseminated. | 349 |
(I) The superintendent may charge a reasonable fee for | 350 |
providing information or criminal records under division (F)(2) or | 351 |
(G) of this section. | 352 |
Sec. 109.572. (A)(1) Upon receipt of a request pursuant to | 353 |
section 121.08, 3301.32, 3301.541, 3319.39, 5104.012, or 5104.013 | 354 |
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pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section, and a set of | 356 |
fingerprint impressions obtained in the manner described in | 357 |
division (C)(2) of this section, the superintendent of the bureau | 358 |
of criminal identification and investigation shall conduct a | 359 |
criminal records check in the manner described in division (B) of | 360 |
this section to determine whether any information exists that | 361 |
indicates that the person who is the subject of the request | 362 |
previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the | 363 |
following: | 364 |
(a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, | 365 |
2903.04, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.16, 2903.21, 2903.34, | 366 |
2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.05, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, 2907.05, | 367 |
2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.23, | 368 |
2907.25, 2907.31, 2907.32, 2907.321, 2907.322, 2907.323, 2911.01, | 369 |
2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, 2919.12, 2919.22, 2919.24, 2919.25, | 370 |
2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.05, | 371 |
2925.06, or 3716.11 of the Revised Code, felonious sexual | 372 |
penetration in violation of former section 2907.12 of the Revised | 373 |
Code, a violation of section 2905.04 of the Revised Code as it | 374 |
existed prior to July 1, 1996, a violation of section 2919.23 of | 375 |
the Revised Code that would have been a violation of section | 376 |
2905.04 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to July 1, 1996, | 377 |
had the violation been committed prior to that date, or a | 378 |
violation of section 2925.11 of the Revised Code that is not a | 379 |
minor drug possession offense; | 380 |
(b) A violation of an existing or former law of this state, | 381 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 382 |
equivalent to any of the offenses listed in division (A)(1)(a) of | 383 |
this section. | 384 |
(2) On receipt of a request pursuant to section 5123.081 of | 385 |
the Revised Code with respect to an applicant for employment in | 386 |
any position with the department of mental retardation and | 387 |
developmental disabilities, pursuant to section 5126.28 of the | 388 |
Revised Code with respect to an applicant for employment in any | 389 |
position with a county board of mental retardation and | 390 |
developmental disabilities, or pursuant to section 5126.281 of the | 391 |
Revised Code with respect to an applicant for employment in a | 392 |
direct services position with an entity contracting with a county | 393 |
board for employment, a completed form prescribed pursuant to | 394 |
division (C)(1) of this section, and a set of fingerprint | 395 |
impressions obtained in the manner described in division (C)(2) of | 396 |
this section, the superintendent of the bureau of criminal | 397 |
identification and investigation shall conduct a criminal records | 398 |
check. The superintendent shall conduct the criminal records check | 399 |
in the manner described in division (B) of this section to | 400 |
determine whether any information exists that indicates that the | 401 |
person who is the subject of the request has been convicted of or | 402 |
pleaded guilty to any of the following: | 403 |
(a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, | 404 |
2903.04, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.16, 2903.21, 2903.34, | 405 |
2903.341, 2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.04, 2905.05, 2907.02, 2907.03, | 406 |
2907.04, 2907.05, 2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.12, | 407 |
2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.23, 2907.25, 2907.31, 2907.32, 2907.321, | 408 |
2907.322, 2907.323, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, 2919.12, | 409 |
2919.22, 2919.24, 2919.25, 2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, | 410 |
2925.03, or 3716.11 of the Revised Code; | 411 |
(b) An existing or former municipal ordinance or law of this | 412 |
state, any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 413 |
equivalent to any of the offenses listed in division (A)(2)(a) of | 414 |
this section. | 415 |
(3) On receipt of a request pursuant to section 173.41, | 416 |
3712.09, 3721.121, or 3722.151 of the Revised Code, a completed | 417 |
form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section, and a | 418 |
set of fingerprint impressions obtained in the manner described in | 419 |
division (C)(2) of this section, the superintendent of the bureau | 420 |
of criminal identification and investigation shall conduct a | 421 |
criminal records check with respect to any person who has applied | 422 |
for employment in a position that involves providing direct care | 423 |
to an older adult. The superintendent shall conduct the criminal | 424 |
records check in the manner described in division (B) of this | 425 |
section to determine whether any information exists that indicates | 426 |
that the person who is the subject of the request previously has | 427 |
been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the following: | 428 |
(a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, | 429 |
2903.04, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.16, 2903.21, 2903.34, | 430 |
2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.11, 2905.12, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.05, | 431 |
2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.12, 2907.25, 2907.31, | 432 |
2907.32, 2907.321, 2907.322, 2907.323, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, | 433 |
2911.12, 2911.13, 2913.02, 2913.03, 2913.04, 2913.11, 2913.21, | 434 |
2913.31, 2913.40, 2913.43, 2913.47, 2913.51, 2919.25, 2921.36, | 435 |
2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.11, 2925.13, | 436 |
2925.22, 2925.23, or 3716.11 of the Revised Code; | 437 |
(b) An existing or former law of this state, any other state, | 438 |
or the United States that is substantially equivalent to any of | 439 |
the offenses listed in division (A)(3)(a) of this section. | 440 |
(4) On receipt of a request pursuant to section 3701.881 of | 441 |
the Revised Code with respect to an applicant for employment with | 442 |
a home health agency as a person responsible for the care, | 443 |
custody, or control of a child, a completed form prescribed | 444 |
pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section, and a set of | 445 |
fingerprint impressions obtained in the manner described in | 446 |
division (C)(2) of this section, the superintendent of the bureau | 447 |
of criminal identification and investigation shall conduct a | 448 |
criminal records check. The superintendent shall conduct the | 449 |
criminal records check in the manner described in division (B) of | 450 |
this section to determine whether any information exists that | 451 |
indicates that the person who is the subject of the request | 452 |
previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the | 453 |
following: | 454 |
(a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, | 455 |
2903.04, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.16, 2903.21, 2903.34, | 456 |
2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.04, 2905.05, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, | 457 |
2907.05, 2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.12, 2907.21, | 458 |
2907.22, 2907.23, 2907.25, 2907.31, 2907.32, 2907.321, 2907.322, | 459 |
2907.323, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, 2919.12, 2919.22, | 460 |
2919.24, 2919.25, 2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, 2925.03, | 461 |
2925.04, 2925.05, 2925.06, or 3716.11 of the Revised Code or a | 462 |
violation of section 2925.11 of the Revised Code that is not a | 463 |
minor drug possession offense; | 464 |
(b) An existing or former law of this state, any other state, | 465 |
or the United States that is substantially equivalent to any of | 466 |
the offenses listed in division (A)(4)(a) of this section. | 467 |
(5) On receipt of a request pursuant to section 5111.95 or | 468 |
5111.96 of the Revised Code with respect to an applicant for | 469 |
employment with a waiver agency participating in a department of | 470 |
job and family services administered home and community-based | 471 |
waiver program or an independent provider participating in a | 472 |
department administered home and community-based waiver program in | 473 |
a position that involves providing home and community-based waiver | 474 |
services to consumers with disabilities, a completed form | 475 |
prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section, and a set | 476 |
of fingerprint impressions obtained in the manner described in | 477 |
division (C)(2) of this section, the superintendent of the bureau | 478 |
of criminal identification and investigation shall conduct a | 479 |
criminal records check. The superintendent shall conduct the | 480 |
criminal records check in the manner described in division (B) of | 481 |
this section to determine whether any information exists that | 482 |
indicates that the person who is the subject of the request | 483 |
previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the | 484 |
following: | 485 |
(a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, | 486 |
2903.04, 2903.041, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.16, 2903.21, | 487 |
2903.34, 2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.05, 2905.11, 2905.12, 2907.02, | 488 |
2907.03, 2907.04, 2907.05, 2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, | 489 |
2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.23, 2907.25, 2907.31, 2907.32, 2907.321, | 490 |
2907.322, 2907.323, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, 2911.13, | 491 |
2913.02, 2913.03, 2913.04, 2913.11, 2913.21, 2913.31, 2913.40, | 492 |
2913.43, 2913.47, 2913.51, 2919.12, 2919.24, 2919.25, 2921.36, | 493 |
2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.05, | 494 |
2925.06, 2925.11, 2925.13, 2925.22, 2925.23, or 3716.11 of the | 495 |
Revised Code, felonious sexual penetration in violation of former | 496 |
section 2907.12 of the Revised Code, a violation of section | 497 |
2905.04 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to July 1, 1996, a | 498 |
violation of section 2919.23 of the Revised Code that would have | 499 |
been a violation of section 2905.04 of the Revised Code as it | 500 |
existed prior to July 1, 1996, had the violation been committed | 501 |
prior to that date; | 502 |
(b) An existing or former law of this state, any other state, | 503 |
or the United States that is substantially equivalent to any of | 504 |
the offenses listed in division (A)(5)(a) of this section. | 505 |
(6) On receipt of a request pursuant to section 3701.881 of | 506 |
the Revised Code with respect to an applicant for employment with | 507 |
a home health agency in a position that involves providing direct | 508 |
care to an older adult, a completed form prescribed pursuant to | 509 |
division (C)(1) of this section, and a set of fingerprint | 510 |
impressions obtained in the manner described in division (C)(2) of | 511 |
this section, the superintendent of the bureau of criminal | 512 |
identification and investigation shall conduct a criminal records | 513 |
check. The superintendent shall conduct the criminal records check | 514 |
in the manner described in division (B) of this section to | 515 |
determine whether any information exists that indicates that the | 516 |
person who is the subject of the request previously has been | 517 |
convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the following: | 518 |
(a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, | 519 |
2903.04, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.16, 2903.21, 2903.34, | 520 |
2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.11, 2905.12, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.05, | 521 |
2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.12, 2907.25, 2907.31, | 522 |
2907.32, 2907.321, 2907.322, 2907.323, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, | 523 |
2911.12, 2911.13, 2913.02, 2913.03, 2913.04, 2913.11, 2913.21, | 524 |
2913.31, 2913.40, 2913.43, 2913.47, 2913.51, 2919.25, 2921.36, | 525 |
2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.11, 2925.13, | 526 |
2925.22, 2925.23, or 3716.11 of the Revised Code; | 527 |
(b) An existing or former law of this state, any other state, | 528 |
or the United States that is substantially equivalent to any of | 529 |
the offenses listed in division (A)(6)(a) of this section. | 530 |
(7) When conducting a criminal records check upon a request | 531 |
pursuant to section 3319.39 of the Revised Code for an applicant | 532 |
who is a teacher, in addition to the determination made under | 533 |
division (A)(1) of this section, the superintendent shall | 534 |
determine whether any information exists that indicates that the | 535 |
person who is the subject of the request previously has been | 536 |
convicted of or pleaded guilty to any offense specified in section | 537 |
3319.31 of the Revised Code. | 538 |
(8) On a request pursuant to section 2151.86 of the Revised | 539 |
Code, a completed form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of | 540 |
this section, and a set of fingerprint impressions obtained in the | 541 |
manner described in division (C)(2) of this section, the | 542 |
superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and | 543 |
investigation shall conduct a criminal records check in the manner | 544 |
described in division (B) of this section to determine whether any | 545 |
information exists that indicates that the person who is the | 546 |
subject of the request previously has been convicted of or pleaded | 547 |
guilty to any of the following: | 548 |
(a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, | 549 |
2903.04, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.16, 2903.21, 2903.34, | 550 |
2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.05, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, 2907.05, | 551 |
2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.23, | 552 |
2907.25, 2907.31, 2907.32, 2907.321, 2907.322, 2907.323, 2909.02, | 553 |
2909.03, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, 2919.12, 2919.22, | 554 |
2919.24, 2919.25, 2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, 2925.03, | 555 |
2925.04, 2925.05, 2925.06, or 3716.11 of the Revised Code, a | 556 |
violation of section 2905.04 of the Revised Code as it existed | 557 |
prior to July 1, 1996, a violation of section 2919.23 of the | 558 |
Revised Code that would have been a violation of section 2905.04 | 559 |
of the Revised Code as it existed prior to July 1, 1996, had the | 560 |
violation been committed prior to that date, a violation of | 561 |
section 2925.11 of the Revised Code that is not a minor drug | 562 |
possession offense, or felonious sexual penetration in violation | 563 |
of former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code; | 564 |
(b) A violation of an existing or former law of this state, | 565 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 566 |
equivalent to any of the offenses listed in division (A)(8)(a) of | 567 |
this section. | 568 |
(9) When conducting a criminal records check on a request | 569 |
pursuant to section 5104.013 of the Revised Code for a person who | 570 |
is an owner, licensee, or administrator of a child day-care center | 571 |
or type A family day-care home | 572 |
certified type B family day-care home, or an adult residing in a | 573 |
type A or certified type B home, or when conducting a criminal | 574 |
records check or a request pursuant to section 5104.012 of the | 575 |
Revised Code for a person who is an applicant for employment in a | 576 |
center, type A home, or certified type B home, the superintendent, | 577 |
in addition to the determination made under division (A)(1) of | 578 |
this section, shall determine whether any information exists that | 579 |
indicates that the person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty | 580 |
to any of the following: | 581 |
(a) A violation of section 2913.02, 2913.03, 2913.04, | 582 |
2913.041, 2913.05, 2913.06, 2913.11, 2913.21, 2913.31, 2913.32, | 583 |
2913.33, 2913.34, 2913.40, 2913.41, 2913.42, 2913.43, 2913.44, | 584 |
2913.441, 2913.45, 2913.46, 2913.47, 2913.48, 2913.49, 2921.11, | 585 |
2921.13, or 2923.01 of the Revised Code, a violation of section | 586 |
2923.02 or 2923.03 of the Revised Code that relates to a crime | 587 |
specified in this division or division (A)(1)(a) of this section, | 588 |
or a second violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code | 589 |
within five years of the date of application for licensure or | 590 |
certification. | 591 |
(b) A violation of an existing or former law of this state, | 592 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 593 |
equivalent to any of the offenses or violations described in | 594 |
division (A)(9)(a) of this section. | 595 |
(10) Upon receipt of a request pursuant to section 5153.111 | 596 |
of the Revised Code, a completed form prescribed pursuant to | 597 |
division (C)(1) of this section, and a set of fingerprint | 598 |
impressions obtained in the manner described in division (C)(2) of | 599 |
this section, the superintendent of the bureau of criminal | 600 |
identification and investigation shall conduct a criminal records | 601 |
check in the manner described in division (B) of this section to | 602 |
determine whether any information exists that indicates that the | 603 |
person who is the subject of the request previously has been | 604 |
convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the following: | 605 |
(a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, | 606 |
2903.04, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.16, 2903.21, 2903.34, | 607 |
2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.05, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, 2907.05, | 608 |
2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.23, | 609 |
2907.25, 2907.31, 2907.32, 2907.321, 2907.322, 2907.323, 2909.02, | 610 |
2909.03, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, 2919.12, 2919.22, | 611 |
2919.24, 2919.25, 2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, 2925.03, | 612 |
2925.04, 2925.05, 2925.06, or 3716.11 of the Revised Code, | 613 |
felonious sexual penetration in violation of former section | 614 |
2907.12 of the Revised Code, a violation of section 2905.04 of the | 615 |
Revised Code as it existed prior to July 1, 1996, a violation of | 616 |
section 2919.23 of the Revised Code that would have been a | 617 |
violation of section 2905.04 of the Revised Code as it existed | 618 |
prior to July 1, 1996, had the violation been committed prior to | 619 |
that date, or a violation of section 2925.11 of the Revised Code | 620 |
that is not a minor drug possession offense; | 621 |
(b) A violation of an existing or former law of this state, | 622 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 623 |
equivalent to any of the offenses listed in division (A)(10)(a) of | 624 |
this section. | 625 |
(11) On receipt of a request for a criminal records check | 626 |
from an individual pursuant to section 4749.03 or 4749.06 of the | 627 |
Revised Code, accompanied by a completed copy of the form | 628 |
prescribed in division (C)(1) of this section and a set of | 629 |
fingerprint impressions obtained in a manner described in division | 630 |
(C)(2) of this section, the superintendent of the bureau of | 631 |
criminal identification and investigation shall conduct a criminal | 632 |
records check in the manner described in division (B) of this | 633 |
section to determine whether any information exists indicating | 634 |
that the person who is the subject of the request has been | 635 |
convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony in this state or in any | 636 |
other state. If the individual indicates that a firearm will be | 637 |
carried in the course of business, the superintendent shall | 638 |
require information from the federal bureau of investigation as | 639 |
described in division (B)(2) of this section. The superintendent | 640 |
shall report the findings of the criminal records check and any | 641 |
information the federal bureau of investigation provides to the | 642 |
director of public safety. | 643 |
| 644 |
superintendent receives the request, completed form, and | 645 |
fingerprint impressions, the superintendent shall send the person, | 646 |
board, or entity that made the request any information, other than | 647 |
information the dissemination of which is prohibited by federal | 648 |
law, the superintendent determines exists with respect to the | 649 |
person who is the subject of the request that indicates that the | 650 |
person previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any | 651 |
offense listed or described in division (A)(1), (2), (3), (4), | 652 |
(5), (6), (7), (8), (9), | 653 |
appropriate. The superintendent shall send the person, board, or | 654 |
entity that made the request a copy of the list of offenses | 655 |
specified in division (A)(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), | 656 |
(9), | 657 |
request was made under section 3701.881 of the Revised Code with | 658 |
regard to an applicant who may be both responsible for the care, | 659 |
custody, or control of a child and involved in providing direct | 660 |
care to an older adult, the superintendent shall provide a list of | 661 |
the offenses specified in divisions (A)(4) and (6) of this | 662 |
section. | 663 |
(B) The superintendent shall conduct any criminal records | 664 |
check requested under section 121.08, 173.41, 2151.86, 3301.32, | 665 |
3301.541, 3319.39, 3701.881, 3712.09, 3721.121, 3722.151, 4749.03, | 666 |
4749.06, 5104.012, 5104.013, 5111.95, 5111.96, 5123.081, 5126.28, | 667 |
5126.281, or 5153.111 of the Revised Code as follows: | 668 |
(1) The superintendent shall review or cause to be reviewed | 669 |
any relevant information gathered and compiled by the bureau under | 670 |
division (A) of section 109.57 of the Revised Code that relates to | 671 |
the person who is the subject of the request, including any | 672 |
relevant information contained in records that have been sealed | 673 |
under section 2953.32 of the Revised Code; | 674 |
(2) If the request received by the superintendent asks for | 675 |
information from the federal bureau of investigation, the | 676 |
superintendent shall request from the federal bureau of | 677 |
investigation any information it has with respect to the person | 678 |
who is the subject of the request and shall review or cause to be | 679 |
reviewed any information the superintendent receives from that | 680 |
bureau. | 681 |
(3) The superintendent or the superintendent's designee may | 682 |
request criminal history records from other states or the federal | 683 |
government pursuant to the national crime prevention and privacy | 684 |
compact set forth in section 109.571 of the Revised Code. | 685 |
(C)(1) The superintendent shall prescribe a form to obtain | 686 |
the information necessary to conduct a criminal records check from | 687 |
any person for whom a criminal records check is required by | 688 |
section 121.08, 173.41, 2151.86, 3301.32, 3301.541, 3319.39, | 689 |
3701.881, 3712.09, 3721.121, 3722.151, 4749.03, 4749.06, 5104.012, | 690 |
5104.013, 5111.95, 5111.96, 5123.081, 5126.28, 5126.281, or | 691 |
5153.111 of the Revised Code. The form that the superintendent | 692 |
prescribes pursuant to this division may be in a tangible format, | 693 |
in an electronic format, or in both tangible and electronic | 694 |
formats. | 695 |
(2) The superintendent shall prescribe standard impression | 696 |
sheets to obtain the fingerprint impressions of any person for | 697 |
whom a criminal records check is required by section 121.08, | 698 |
173.41, 2151.86, 3301.32, 3301.541, 3319.39, 3701.881, 3712.09, | 699 |
3721.121, 3722.151, 4749.03, 4749.06, 5104.012, 5104.013, 5111.95, | 700 |
5111.96, 5123.081, 5126.28, 5126.281, or 5153.111 of the Revised | 701 |
Code. Any person for whom a records check is required by any of | 702 |
those sections shall obtain the fingerprint impressions at a | 703 |
county sheriff's office, municipal police department, or any other | 704 |
entity with the ability to make fingerprint impressions on the | 705 |
standard impression sheets prescribed by the superintendent. The | 706 |
office, department, or entity may charge the person a reasonable | 707 |
fee for making the impressions. The standard impression sheets the | 708 |
superintendent prescribes pursuant to this division may be in a | 709 |
tangible format, in an electronic format, or in both tangible and | 710 |
electronic formats. | 711 |
(3) Subject to division (D) of this section, the | 712 |
superintendent shall prescribe and charge a reasonable fee for | 713 |
providing a criminal records check requested under section 121.08, | 714 |
173.41, 2151.86, 3301.32, 3301.541, 3319.39, 3701.881, 3712.09, | 715 |
3721.121, 3722.151, 4749.03, 4749.06, 5104.012, 5104.013, 5111.95, | 716 |
5111.96, 5123.081, 5126.28, 5126.281, or 5153.111 of the Revised | 717 |
Code. The person making a criminal records request under section | 718 |
121.08, 173.41, 2151.86, 3301.32, 3301.541, 3319.39, 3701.881, | 719 |
3712.09, 3721.121, 3722.151, 4749.03, 4749.06, 5104.012, 5104.013, | 720 |
5111.95, 5111.96, 5123.081, 5126.28, 5126.281, or 5153.111 of the | 721 |
Revised Code shall pay the fee prescribed pursuant to this | 722 |
division. A person making a request under section 3701.881 of the | 723 |
Revised Code for a criminal records check for an applicant who may | 724 |
be both responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child | 725 |
and involved in providing direct care to an older adult shall pay | 726 |
one fee for the request. | 727 |
(4) The superintendent of the bureau of criminal | 728 |
identification and investigation may prescribe methods of | 729 |
forwarding fingerprint impressions and information necessary to | 730 |
conduct a criminal records check, which methods shall include, but | 731 |
not be limited to, an electronic method. | 732 |
(D) A determination whether any information exists that | 733 |
indicates that a person previously has been convicted of or | 734 |
pleaded guilty to any offense listed or described in division | 735 |
(A)(1)(a) or (b), (A)(2)(a) or (b), (A)(3)(a) or (b), (A)(4)(a) or | 736 |
(b), (A)(5)(a) or (b), (A)(6), (A)(7)(a) or (b), (A)(8)(a) or (b), | 737 |
738 | |
made by the superintendent with respect to information considered | 739 |
in a criminal records check in accordance with this section is | 740 |
valid for the person who is the subject of the criminal records | 741 |
check for a period of one year from the date upon which the | 742 |
superintendent makes the determination. During the period in which | 743 |
the determination in regard to a person is valid, if another | 744 |
request under this section is made for a criminal records check | 745 |
for that person, the superintendent shall provide the information | 746 |
that is the basis for the superintendent's initial determination | 747 |
at a lower fee than the fee prescribed for the initial criminal | 748 |
records check. | 749 |
(E) As used in this section: | 750 |
(1) "Criminal records check" means any criminal records check | 751 |
conducted by the superintendent of the bureau of criminal | 752 |
identification and investigation in accordance with division (B) | 753 |
of this section. | 754 |
(2) "Home and community-based waiver services" and "waiver | 755 |
agency" have the same meanings as in section 5111.95 of the | 756 |
Revised Code. | 757 |
(3) "Independent provider" has the same meaning as in section | 758 |
5111.96 of the Revised Code. | 759 |
(4) "Minor drug possession offense" has the same meaning as | 760 |
in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. | 761 |
(5) "Older adult" means a person age sixty or older. | 762 |
Sec. 109.60. (A)(1) The sheriffs of the several counties and | 763 |
the chiefs of police of cities, immediately upon the arrest of any | 764 |
person for any felony, on suspicion of any felony, for a crime | 765 |
constituting a misdemeanor on the first offense and a felony on | 766 |
subsequent offenses, or for any misdemeanor described in division | 767 |
(A)(1)(a) or (A)(10)(a) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code, | 768 |
and immediately upon the arrest or taking into custody of any | 769 |
child under eighteen years of age for committing an act that would | 770 |
be a felony or an offense of violence if committed by an adult or | 771 |
upon probable cause to believe that a child of that age may have | 772 |
committed an act that would be a felony or an offense of violence | 773 |
if committed by an adult, shall take the person's or child's | 774 |
fingerprints, or cause the same to be taken, according to the | 775 |
fingerprint system of identification on the forms furnished by the | 776 |
superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and | 777 |
investigation, and immediately shall forward copies of the | 778 |
completed forms, any other description that may be required, and | 779 |
the history of the offense committed to the bureau to be | 780 |
classified and filed and to the clerk of the court having | 781 |
jurisdiction over the prosecution of the offense or over the | 782 |
adjudication relative to the act. | 783 |
(2) If a sheriff or chief of police has not taken, or caused | 784 |
to be taken, a person's or child's fingerprints in accordance with | 785 |
division (A)(1) of this section by the time of the arraignment or | 786 |
first appearance of the person or child, the court shall order the | 787 |
person or child to appear before the sheriff or chief of police | 788 |
within twenty-four hours to have the person's or child's | 789 |
fingerprints taken. The sheriff or chief of police shall take the | 790 |
person's or child's fingerprints, or cause the fingerprints to be | 791 |
taken, according to the fingerprint system of identification on | 792 |
the forms furnished by the superintendent of the bureau of | 793 |
criminal identification and investigation and, immediately after | 794 |
the person's or child's arraignment or first appearance, forward | 795 |
copies of the completed forms, any other description that may be | 796 |
required, and the history of the offense committed to the bureau | 797 |
to be classified and filed and to the clerk of the court. | 798 |
(3) Every court with jurisdiction over a case involving a | 799 |
person or child with respect to whom division (A)(1) of this | 800 |
section requires a sheriff or chief of police to take the person's | 801 |
or child's fingerprints shall inquire at the time of the person's | 802 |
or child's sentencing or adjudication whether or not the person or | 803 |
child has been fingerprinted pursuant to division (A)(1) or (2) of | 804 |
this section for the original arrest upon which the sentence or | 805 |
adjudication is based. If the person or child was not | 806 |
fingerprinted for the original arrest upon which the sentence or | 807 |
adjudication is based, the court shall order the person or child | 808 |
to appear before the sheriff or chief of police within twenty-four | 809 |
hours to have the person's or child's fingerprints taken. The | 810 |
sheriff or chief of police shall take the person's or child's | 811 |
fingerprints, or cause the fingerprints to be taken, according to | 812 |
the fingerprint system of identification on the forms furnished by | 813 |
the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and | 814 |
investigation and immediately forward copies of the completed | 815 |
forms, any other description that may be required, and the history | 816 |
of the offense committed to the bureau to be classified and filed | 817 |
and to the clerk of the court. | 818 |
(4) If a person or child is in the custody of a law | 819 |
enforcement agency or a detention facility, as defined in section | 820 |
2921.01 of the Revised Code, and the chief law enforcement officer | 821 |
or chief administrative officer of the detention facility | 822 |
discovers that a warrant has been issued or a bill of information | 823 |
has been filed alleging the person or child to have committed an | 824 |
offense or act other than the offense or act for which the person | 825 |
or child is in custody, and the other alleged offense or act is | 826 |
one for which fingerprints are to be taken pursuant to division | 827 |
(A)(1) of this section, the law enforcement agency or detention | 828 |
facility shall take the fingerprints of the person or child, or | 829 |
cause the fingerprints to be taken, according to the fingerprint | 830 |
system of identification on the forms furnished by the | 831 |
superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and | 832 |
investigation and immediately forward copies of the completed | 833 |
forms, any other description that may be required, and the history | 834 |
of the offense committed to the bureau to be classified and filed | 835 |
and to the clerk of the court that issued the warrant or with | 836 |
which the bill of information was filed. | 837 |
(5) If an accused is found not guilty of the offense charged | 838 |
or a nolle prosequi is entered in any case, or if any accused | 839 |
child under eighteen years of age is found not to be a delinquent | 840 |
child for committing an act that would be a felony or an offense | 841 |
of violence if committed by an adult or not guilty of the felony | 842 |
or offense of violence charged or a nolle prosequi is entered in | 843 |
that case, the fingerprints and description shall be given to the | 844 |
accused upon the accused's request. | 845 |
(6) The superintendent shall compare the description received | 846 |
with those already on file in the bureau, and, if the | 847 |
superintendent finds that the person arrested or taken into | 848 |
custody has a criminal record or a record as a delinquent child | 849 |
for having committed an act that would be a felony or an offense | 850 |
of violence if committed by an adult or is a fugitive from justice | 851 |
or wanted by any jurisdiction in this or another state, the United | 852 |
States, or a foreign country for any offense, the superintendent | 853 |
at once shall inform the arresting officer, the officer taking the | 854 |
person into custody, or the chief administrative officer of the | 855 |
county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or | 856 |
multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, community-based | 857 |
correctional facility, halfway house, alternative residential | 858 |
facility, or state correctional institution in which the person or | 859 |
child is in custody of that fact and give appropriate notice to | 860 |
the proper authorities in the jurisdiction in which the person is | 861 |
wanted, or, if that jurisdiction is a foreign country, give | 862 |
appropriate notice to federal authorities for transmission to the | 863 |
foreign country. The names, under which each person whose | 864 |
identification is filed is known, shall be alphabetically indexed | 865 |
by the superintendent. | 866 |
(B) This section does not apply to a violator of a city | 867 |
ordinance unless the officers have reason to believe that the | 868 |
violator is a past offender or the crime is one constituting a | 869 |
misdemeanor on the first offense and a felony on subsequent | 870 |
offenses, or unless it is advisable for the purpose of subsequent | 871 |
identification. This section does not apply to any child under | 872 |
eighteen years of age who was not arrested or otherwise taken into | 873 |
custody for committing an act that would be a felony or an offense | 874 |
of violence if committed by an adult or upon probable cause to | 875 |
believe that a child of that age may have committed an act that | 876 |
would be a felony or an offense of violence if committed by an | 877 |
adult, except as provided in section 2151.313 of the Revised Code. | 878 |
Sec. 1347.08. (A) Every state or local agency that maintains | 879 |
a personal information system, upon the request and the proper | 880 |
identification of any person who is the subject of personal | 881 |
information in the system, shall: | 882 |
(1) Inform the person of the existence of any personal | 883 |
information in the system of which the person is the subject; | 884 |
(2) Except as provided in divisions (C) and (E)(2) of this | 885 |
section, permit the person, the person's legal guardian, or an | 886 |
attorney who presents a signed written authorization made by the | 887 |
person, to inspect all personal information in the system of which | 888 |
the person is the subject; | 889 |
(3) Inform the person about the types of uses made of the | 890 |
personal information, including the identity of any users usually | 891 |
granted access to the system. | 892 |
(B) Any person who wishes to exercise a right provided by | 893 |
this section may be accompanied by another individual of the | 894 |
person's choice. | 895 |
(C)(1) A state or local agency, upon request, shall disclose | 896 |
medical, psychiatric, or psychological information to a person who | 897 |
is the subject of the information or to the person's legal | 898 |
guardian, unless a physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist | 899 |
determines for the agency that the disclosure of the information | 900 |
is likely to have an adverse effect on the person, in which case | 901 |
the information shall be released to a physician, psychiatrist, or | 902 |
psychologist who is designated by the person or by the person's | 903 |
legal guardian. | 904 |
(2) Upon the signed written request of either a licensed | 905 |
attorney at law or a licensed physician designated by the inmate, | 906 |
together with the signed written request of an inmate of a | 907 |
correctional institution under the administration of the | 908 |
department of rehabilitation and correction, the department shall | 909 |
disclose medical information to the designated attorney or | 910 |
physician as provided in division (C) of section 5120.21 of the | 911 |
Revised Code. | 912 |
(D) If an individual who is authorized to inspect personal | 913 |
information that is maintained in a personal information system | 914 |
requests the state or local agency that maintains the system to | 915 |
provide a copy of any personal information that the individual is | 916 |
authorized to inspect, the agency shall provide a copy of the | 917 |
personal information to the individual. Each state and local | 918 |
agency may establish reasonable fees for the service of copying, | 919 |
upon request, personal information that is maintained by the | 920 |
agency. | 921 |
(E)(1) This section regulates access to personal information | 922 |
that is maintained in a personal information system by persons who | 923 |
are the subject of the information, but does not limit the | 924 |
authority of any person, including a person who is the subject of | 925 |
personal information maintained in a personal information system, | 926 |
to inspect or have copied, pursuant to section 149.43 of the | 927 |
Revised Code, a public record as defined in that section. | 928 |
(2) This section does not provide a person who is the subject | 929 |
of personal information maintained in a personal information | 930 |
system, the person's legal guardian, or an attorney authorized by | 931 |
the person, with a right to inspect or have copied, or require an | 932 |
agency that maintains a personal information system to permit the | 933 |
inspection of or to copy, a confidential law enforcement | 934 |
investigatory record or trial preparation record, as defined in | 935 |
divisions (A)(2) and (4) of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. | 936 |
(F) This section does not apply to any of the following: | 937 |
(1) The contents of an adoption file maintained by the | 938 |
department of health under section 3705.12 of the Revised Code; | 939 |
(2) Information contained in the putative father registry | 940 |
established by section 3107.062 of the Revised Code, regardless of | 941 |
whether the information is held by the department of job and | 942 |
family services or, pursuant to section 3111.69 of the Revised | 943 |
Code, the office of child support in the department or a child | 944 |
support enforcement agency; | 945 |
(3) Papers, records, and books that pertain to an adoption | 946 |
and that are subject to inspection in accordance with section | 947 |
3107.17 of the Revised Code; | 948 |
(4) Records listed in division (A) of section 3107.42 of the | 949 |
Revised Code or specified in division (A) of section 3107.52 of | 950 |
the Revised Code; | 951 |
(5) Records that identify an individual described in division | 952 |
(A)(1) of section 3721.031 of the Revised Code, or that would tend | 953 |
to identify such an individual; | 954 |
(6) Files and records that have been expunged under division | 955 |
(D)(1) of section 3721.23 of the Revised Code; | 956 |
(7) Records that identify an individual described in division | 957 |
(A)(1) of section 3721.25 of the Revised Code, or that would tend | 958 |
to identify such an individual; | 959 |
(8) Records that identify an individual described in division | 960 |
(A)(1) of section 5111.61 of the Revised Code, or that would tend | 961 |
to identify such an individual; | 962 |
(9) Test materials, examinations, or evaluation tools used in | 963 |
an examination for licensure as a nursing home administrator that | 964 |
the board of examiners of nursing home administrators administers | 965 |
under section 4751.04 of the Revised Code or contracts under that | 966 |
section with a private or government entity to administer; | 967 |
(10) Information contained in a database established and | 968 |
maintained pursuant to section 5101.13 of the Revised Code. | 969 |
Sec. 1717.14. When an officer or agent of the Ohio humane | 970 |
society or of a county humane society deems it for the best | 971 |
interest of a child, because of cruelty inflicted upon | 972 |
child or
because of | 973 |
child be removed from the possession and control of the parents or | 974 |
persons having charge of
| 975 |
976 | |
shall | 977 |
978 | |
979 | |
980 | |
981 | |
2151.421 of the Revised Code. | 982 |
As used in this section "child" means any person under | 983 |
eighteen years of age. | 984 |
Sec. 2151.011. (A) As used in the Revised Code: | 985 |
(1) "Juvenile court" means whichever of the following is | 986 |
applicable that has jurisdiction under this chapter and Chapter | 987 |
2152. of the Revised Code: | 988 |
(a) The division of the court of common pleas specified in | 989 |
section 2101.022 or 2301.03 of the Revised Code as having | 990 |
jurisdiction under this chapter and Chapter 2152. of the Revised | 991 |
Code or as being the juvenile division or the juvenile division | 992 |
combined with one or more other divisions; | 993 |
(b) The juvenile court of Cuyahoga county or Hamilton county | 994 |
that is separately and independently created by section 2151.08 or | 995 |
Chapter 2153. of the Revised Code and that has jurisdiction under | 996 |
this chapter and Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code; | 997 |
(c) If division (A)(1)(a) or (b) of this section does not | 998 |
apply, the probate division of the court of common pleas. | 999 |
(2) "Juvenile judge" means a judge of a court having | 1000 |
jurisdiction under this chapter. | 1001 |
(3) "Private child placing agency" means any association, as | 1002 |
defined in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, that is certified | 1003 |
under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code to accept temporary, | 1004 |
permanent, or legal custody of children and place the children for | 1005 |
either foster care or adoption. | 1006 |
(4) "Private noncustodial agency" means any person, | 1007 |
organization, association, or society certified by the department | 1008 |
of job and family services that does not accept temporary or | 1009 |
permanent legal custody of children, that is privately operated in | 1010 |
this state, and that does one or more of the following: | 1011 |
(a) Receives and cares for children for two or more | 1012 |
consecutive weeks; | 1013 |
(b) Participates in the placement of children in certified | 1014 |
foster homes; | 1015 |
(c) Provides adoption services in conjunction with a public | 1016 |
children services agency or private child placing agency. | 1017 |
(B) As used in this chapter: | 1018 |
(1) "Adequate parental care" means the provision by a child's | 1019 |
parent or parents, guardian, or custodian of adequate food, | 1020 |
clothing, and shelter to ensure the child's health and physical | 1021 |
safety and the provision by a child's parent or parents of | 1022 |
specialized services warranted by the child's physical or mental | 1023 |
needs. | 1024 |
(2) "Adult" means an individual who is eighteen years of age | 1025 |
or older. | 1026 |
(3) "Agreement for temporary custody" means a voluntary | 1027 |
agreement authorized by section 5103.15 of the Revised Code that | 1028 |
transfers the temporary custody of a child to a public children | 1029 |
services agency or a private child placing agency. | 1030 |
(4) "Certified foster home" means a foster home, as defined | 1031 |
in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, certified under section | 1032 |
5103.03 of the Revised Code. | 1033 |
(5) "Child" means a person who is under eighteen years of | 1034 |
age, except that the juvenile court has jurisdiction over any | 1035 |
person who is adjudicated an unruly child prior to attaining | 1036 |
eighteen years of age until the person attains twenty-one years of | 1037 |
age, and, for purposes of that jurisdiction related to that | 1038 |
adjudication, a person who is so adjudicated an unruly child shall | 1039 |
be deemed a "child" until the person attains twenty-one years of | 1040 |
age. | 1041 |
(6) "Child day camp," "child care," "child day-care center," | 1042 |
"part-time child day-care center," "type A family day-care home," | 1043 |
"certified type B family day-care home," "type B home," | 1044 |
"administrator of a child day-care center," "administrator of a | 1045 |
type A family day-care home," "in-home aide," and "authorized | 1046 |
provider" have the same meanings as in section 5104.01 of the | 1047 |
Revised Code. | 1048 |
(7) "Child care provider" means an individual who is a | 1049 |
child-care staff member or administrator of a child day-care | 1050 |
center, a type A family day-care home, or a type B family day-care | 1051 |
home, or an in-home aide or an individual who is licensed, is | 1052 |
regulated, is approved, operates under the direction of, or | 1053 |
otherwise is certified by the department of job and family | 1054 |
services, department of mental retardation and developmental | 1055 |
disabilities, or the early childhood programs of the department of | 1056 |
education. | 1057 |
(8) "Chronic truant" has the same meaning as in section | 1058 |
2152.02 of the Revised Code. | 1059 |
(9) "Commit" means to vest custody as ordered by the court. | 1060 |
(10) "Counseling" includes both of the following: | 1061 |
(a) General counseling services performed by a public | 1062 |
children services agency or shelter for victims of domestic | 1063 |
violence to assist a child, a child's parents, and a child's | 1064 |
siblings in alleviating identified problems that may cause or have | 1065 |
caused the child to be an abused, neglected, or dependent child. | 1066 |
(b) Psychiatric or psychological therapeutic counseling | 1067 |
services provided to correct or alleviate any mental or emotional | 1068 |
illness or disorder and performed by a licensed psychiatrist, | 1069 |
licensed psychologist, or a person licensed under Chapter 4757. of | 1070 |
the Revised Code to engage in social work or professional | 1071 |
counseling. | 1072 |
(11) "Custodian" means a person who has legal custody of a | 1073 |
child or a public children services agency or private child | 1074 |
placing agency that has permanent, temporary, or legal custody of | 1075 |
a child. | 1076 |
(12) "Delinquent child" has the same meaning as in section | 1077 |
2152.02 of the Revised Code. | 1078 |
(13) "Detention" means the temporary care of children pending | 1079 |
court adjudication or disposition, or execution of a court order, | 1080 |
in a public or private facility designed to physically restrict | 1081 |
the movement and activities of children. | 1082 |
(14) "Developmental disability" has the same meaning as in | 1083 |
section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. | 1084 |
(15) "Foster caregiver" has the same meaning as in section | 1085 |
5103.02 of the Revised Code. | 1086 |
(16) "Guardian" means a person, association, or corporation | 1087 |
that is granted authority by a probate court pursuant to Chapter | 1088 |
2111. of the Revised Code to exercise parental rights over a child | 1089 |
to the extent provided in the court's order and subject to the | 1090 |
residual parental rights of the child's parents. | 1091 |
(17) "Habitual truant" means any child of compulsory school | 1092 |
age who is absent without legitimate excuse for absence from the | 1093 |
public school the child is supposed to attend for five or more | 1094 |
consecutive school days, seven or more school days in one school | 1095 |
month, or twelve or more school days in a school year. | 1096 |
(18) "Juvenile traffic offender" has the same meaning as in | 1097 |
section 2152.02 of the Revised Code. | 1098 |
(19) "Legal custody" means a legal status that vests in the | 1099 |
custodian the right to have physical care and control of the child | 1100 |
and to determine where and with whom the child shall live, and the | 1101 |
right and duty to protect, train, and discipline the child and to | 1102 |
provide the child with food, shelter, education, and medical care, | 1103 |
all subject to any residual parental rights, privileges, and | 1104 |
responsibilities. An individual granted legal custody shall | 1105 |
exercise the rights and responsibilities personally unless | 1106 |
otherwise authorized by any section of the Revised Code or by the | 1107 |
court. | 1108 |
(20) A "legitimate excuse for absence from the public school | 1109 |
the child is supposed to attend" includes, but is not limited to, | 1110 |
any of the following: | 1111 |
(a) The fact that the child in question has enrolled in and | 1112 |
is attending another public or nonpublic school in this or another | 1113 |
state; | 1114 |
(b) The fact that the child in question is excused from | 1115 |
attendance at school for any of the reasons specified in section | 1116 |
3321.04 of the Revised Code; | 1117 |
(c) The fact that the child in question has received an age | 1118 |
and schooling certificate in accordance with section 3331.01 of | 1119 |
the Revised Code. | 1120 |
(21) "Mental illness" and "mentally ill person subject to | 1121 |
hospitalization by court order" have the same meanings as in | 1122 |
section 5122.01 of the Revised Code. | 1123 |
(22) "Mental injury" means any behavioral, cognitive, | 1124 |
emotional, or mental disorder in a child caused by an act or | 1125 |
omission that is described in section 2919.22 of the Revised Code | 1126 |
and is committed by the parent or other person responsible for the | 1127 |
child's care. | 1128 |
(23) "Mentally retarded person" has the same meaning as in | 1129 |
section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. | 1130 |
(24) "Nonsecure care, supervision, or training" means care, | 1131 |
supervision, or training of a child in a facility that does not | 1132 |
confine or prevent movement of the child within the facility or | 1133 |
from the facility. | 1134 |
(25) "Of compulsory school age" has the same meaning as in | 1135 |
section 3321.01 of the Revised Code. | 1136 |
(26) "Organization" means any institution, public, | 1137 |
semipublic, or private, and any private association, society, or | 1138 |
agency located or operating in the state, incorporated or | 1139 |
unincorporated, having among its functions the furnishing of | 1140 |
protective services or care for children, or the placement of | 1141 |
children in certified foster homes or elsewhere. | 1142 |
(27) "Out-of-home care" means detention facilities, shelter | 1143 |
facilities, certified foster homes, placement in a prospective | 1144 |
adoptive home prior to the issuance of a final decree of adoption, | 1145 |
organizations, certified organizations, child day-care centers, | 1146 |
type A family day-care homes, child care provided by type B family | 1147 |
day-care home providers and by in-home aides, group home | 1148 |
providers, group homes, institutions, state institutions, | 1149 |
residential facilities, residential care facilities, residential | 1150 |
camps, day camps, public schools, chartered nonpublic schools, | 1151 |
educational service centers, hospitals, and medical clinics that | 1152 |
are responsible for the care, physical custody, or control of | 1153 |
children. | 1154 |
(28) "Out-of-home care child abuse" means any of the | 1155 |
following when committed by a person responsible for the care of a | 1156 |
child in out-of-home care: | 1157 |
(a) Engaging in sexual activity with a child in the person's | 1158 |
care; | 1159 |
(b) Denial to a child, as a means of punishment, of proper or | 1160 |
necessary subsistence, education, medical care, or other care | 1161 |
necessary for a child's health; | 1162 |
(c) Use of restraint procedures on a child that cause injury | 1163 |
or pain; | 1164 |
(d) Administration of prescription drugs or psychotropic | 1165 |
medication to the child without the written approval and ongoing | 1166 |
supervision of a licensed physician; | 1167 |
(e) Commission of any act, other than by accidental means, | 1168 |
that results in any injury to or death of the child in out-of-home | 1169 |
care or commission of any act by accidental means that results in | 1170 |
an injury to or death of a child in out-of-home care and that is | 1171 |
at variance with the history given of the injury or death. | 1172 |
(29) "Out-of-home care child neglect" means any of the | 1173 |
following when committed by a person responsible for the care of a | 1174 |
child in out-of-home care: | 1175 |
(a) Failure to provide reasonable supervision according to | 1176 |
the standards of care appropriate to the age, mental and physical | 1177 |
condition, or other special needs of the child; | 1178 |
(b) Failure to provide reasonable supervision according to | 1179 |
the standards of care appropriate to the age, mental and physical | 1180 |
condition, or other special needs of the child, that results in | 1181 |
sexual or physical abuse of the child by any person; | 1182 |
(c) Failure to develop a process for all of the following: | 1183 |
(i) Administration of prescription drugs or psychotropic | 1184 |
drugs for the child; | 1185 |
(ii) Assuring that the instructions of the licensed physician | 1186 |
who prescribed a drug for the child are followed; | 1187 |
(iii) Reporting to the licensed physician who prescribed the | 1188 |
drug all unfavorable or dangerous side effects from the use of the | 1189 |
drug. | 1190 |
(d) Failure to provide proper or necessary subsistence, | 1191 |
education, medical care, or other individualized care necessary | 1192 |
for the health or well-being of the child; | 1193 |
(e) Confinement of the child to a locked room without | 1194 |
monitoring by staff; | 1195 |
(f) Failure to provide ongoing security for all prescription | 1196 |
and nonprescription medication; | 1197 |
(g) Isolation of a child for a period of time when there is | 1198 |
substantial risk that the isolation, if continued, will impair or | 1199 |
retard the mental health or physical well-being of the child. | 1200 |
(30) "Permanent custody" means a legal status that vests in a | 1201 |
public children services agency or a private child placing agency, | 1202 |
all parental rights, duties, and obligations, including the right | 1203 |
to consent to adoption, and divests the natural parents or | 1204 |
adoptive parents of all parental rights, privileges, and | 1205 |
obligations, including all residual rights and obligations. | 1206 |
(31) "Permanent surrender" means the act of the parents or, | 1207 |
if a child has only one parent, of the parent of a child, by a | 1208 |
voluntary agreement authorized by section 5103.15 of the Revised | 1209 |
Code, to transfer the permanent custody of the child to a public | 1210 |
children services agency or a private child placing agency. | 1211 |
(32) "Person" means an individual, association, corporation, | 1212 |
or partnership and the state or any of its political subdivisions, | 1213 |
departments, or agencies. | 1214 |
(33) "Person responsible for a child's care in out-of-home | 1215 |
care" means any of the following: | 1216 |
(a) Any foster caregiver, in-home aide, or provider; | 1217 |
(b) Any administrator, employee, or agent of any of the | 1218 |
following: a public or private detention facility; shelter | 1219 |
facility; organization; certified organization; child day-care | 1220 |
center; type A family day-care home; certified type B family | 1221 |
day-care home; group home; institution; state institution; | 1222 |
residential facility; residential care facility; residential camp; | 1223 |
day camp; school district; community school; chartered nonpublic | 1224 |
school; educational service center; hospital; or medical clinic; | 1225 |
(c) Any person who supervises or coaches children as part of | 1226 |
an extracurricular activity sponsored by a school district, public | 1227 |
school, or chartered nonpublic school; | 1228 |
(d) Any other person who performs a similar function with | 1229 |
respect to, or has a similar relationship to, children. | 1230 |
| 1231 |
the following conditions that substantially limit one or more of | 1232 |
an individual's major life activities, including self-care, | 1233 |
receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility, and | 1234 |
self-direction: | 1235 |
(a) A substantial impairment of vision, speech, or hearing; | 1236 |
(b) A congenital orthopedic impairment; | 1237 |
(c) An orthopedic impairment caused by disease, rheumatic | 1238 |
fever or any other similar chronic or acute health problem, or | 1239 |
amputation or another similar cause. | 1240 |
| 1241 |
public children services agency or a private child placing agency | 1242 |
with a person for the care and adoption by that person of a child | 1243 |
of whom the agency has permanent custody. | 1244 |
| 1245 |
a public children services agency or a private child placing | 1246 |
agency for the out-of-home care of a child of whom the agency has | 1247 |
temporary custody or permanent custody. | 1248 |
| 1249 |
order of a juvenile court pursuant to which both of the following | 1250 |
apply: | 1251 |
(a) The court gives legal custody of a child to a public | 1252 |
children services agency or a private child placing agency without | 1253 |
the termination of parental rights. | 1254 |
(b) The order permits the agency to make an appropriate | 1255 |
placement of the child and to enter into a written agreement with | 1256 |
a foster care provider or with another person or agency with whom | 1257 |
the child is placed. | 1258 |
| 1259 |
professional counseling" have the same meanings as in section | 1260 |
4757.01 of the Revised Code. | 1261 |
| 1262 |
service, or condition created by court order following an | 1263 |
adjudication that a child is an unruly child that is described in | 1264 |
division (A)(4) of section 2152.19 of the Revised Code. | 1265 |
| 1266 |
disposition pursuant to which the court permits an abused, | 1267 |
neglected, dependent, or unruly child to remain in the custody of | 1268 |
the child's parents, guardian, or custodian and stay in the | 1269 |
child's home, subject to any conditions and limitations upon the | 1270 |
child, the child's parents, guardian, or custodian, or any other | 1271 |
person that the court prescribes, including supervision as | 1272 |
directed by the court for the protection of the child. | 1273 |
| 1274 |
5122.01 of the Revised Code. | 1275 |
| 1276 |
4732.01 of the Revised Code. | 1277 |
| 1278 |
care, physical custody, or control of children is accepted | 1279 |
overnight for recreational or recreational and educational | 1280 |
purposes. | 1281 |
| 1282 |
residence, or facility that is licensed by the department of | 1283 |
mental health under section 5119.22 of the Revised Code and that | 1284 |
provides care for a child. | 1285 |
| 1286 |
is licensed by the department of mental retardation and | 1287 |
developmental disabilities under section 5123.19 of the Revised | 1288 |
Code and in which a child with a developmental disability resides. | 1289 |
| 1290 |
responsibilities" means those rights, privileges, and | 1291 |
responsibilities remaining with the natural parent after the | 1292 |
transfer of legal custody of the child, including, but not | 1293 |
necessarily limited to, the privilege of reasonable visitation, | 1294 |
consent to adoption, the privilege to determine the child's | 1295 |
religious affiliation, and the responsibility for support. | 1296 |
| 1297 |
state board of education pursuant to section 3313.48 of the | 1298 |
Revised Code. | 1299 |
| 1300 |
meanings as in section 3313.62 of the Revised Code. | 1301 |
| 1302 |
under the direction of the department of youth services that is | 1303 |
designed to physically restrict the movement and activities of | 1304 |
children and used for the placement of children after adjudication | 1305 |
and disposition. | 1306 |
| 1307 |
2907.01 of the Revised Code. | 1308 |
| 1309 |
physically unrestricted facilities pending court adjudication or | 1310 |
disposition. | 1311 |
| 1312 |
same meaning as in section 3113.33 of the Revised Code. | 1313 |
| 1314 |
who is removed from the child's home, which custody may be | 1315 |
terminated at any time at the discretion of the court or, if the | 1316 |
legal custody is granted in an agreement for temporary custody, by | 1317 |
the person who executed the agreement. | 1318 |
(C) For the purposes of this chapter, a child shall be | 1319 |
presumed abandoned when the parents of the child have failed to | 1320 |
visit or maintain contact with the child for more than ninety | 1321 |
days, regardless of whether the parents resume contact with the | 1322 |
child after that period of ninety days. | 1323 |
Sec. 2151.281. (A) The court shall appoint a guardian ad | 1324 |
litem, subject to rules adopted by the supreme court, to protect | 1325 |
the interest of a child in any proceeding concerning an alleged or | 1326 |
adjudicated delinquent child or unruly child when either of the | 1327 |
following applies: | 1328 |
(1) The child has no parent, guardian, or legal custodian. | 1329 |
(2) The court finds that there is a conflict of interest | 1330 |
between the child and the child's parent, guardian, or legal | 1331 |
custodian. | 1332 |
(B)(1) The court shall appoint a guardian ad litem, subject | 1333 |
to rules adopted by the supreme court, to protect the interest of | 1334 |
a child in any proceeding concerning an alleged abused or | 1335 |
neglected child and in any proceeding held pursuant to section | 1336 |
2151.414 of the Revised Code. The guardian ad litem so appointed | 1337 |
shall not be the attorney responsible for presenting the evidence | 1338 |
alleging that the child is an abused or neglected child and shall | 1339 |
not be an employee of any party in the proceeding. | 1340 |
(2) The guardian ad litem appointed for an alleged or | 1341 |
adjudicated abused or neglected child may bring a civil action | 1342 |
against any person, who is required by division (A)(1) of section | 1343 |
2151.421 of the Revised Code to file a report of known or | 1344 |
suspected child abuse or child neglect, if that person knows or | 1345 |
suspects that the child for whom the guardian ad litem is | 1346 |
appointed is the subject of child abuse or child neglect and does | 1347 |
not file the required report and if the child suffers any injury | 1348 |
or harm as a result of the known or suspected child abuse or child | 1349 |
neglect or suffers additional injury or harm after the failure to | 1350 |
file the report. | 1351 |
(C) In any proceeding concerning an alleged or adjudicated | 1352 |
delinquent, unruly, abused, neglected, or dependent child in which | 1353 |
the parent appears to be mentally incompetent or is under eighteen | 1354 |
years of age, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to | 1355 |
protect the interest of that parent. | 1356 |
(D) The court shall require the guardian ad litem to | 1357 |
faithfully discharge the guardian ad litem's duties and, upon the | 1358 |
guardian ad litem's failure to faithfully discharge the guardian | 1359 |
ad litem's duties, shall discharge the guardian ad litem and | 1360 |
appoint another guardian ad litem. The court may fix the | 1361 |
compensation for the service of the guardian ad litem, which | 1362 |
compensation shall be paid from the treasury of the county, | 1363 |
subject to rules adopted by the supreme court. | 1364 |
(E) A parent who is eighteen years of age or older and not | 1365 |
mentally incompetent shall be deemed sui juris for the purpose of | 1366 |
any proceeding relative to a child of the parent who is alleged or | 1367 |
adjudicated to be an abused, neglected, or dependent child. | 1368 |
(F) In any case in which a parent of a child alleged or | 1369 |
adjudicated to be an abused, neglected, or dependent child is | 1370 |
under eighteen years of age, the parents of that parent shall be | 1371 |
summoned to appear at any hearing respecting the child, who is | 1372 |
alleged or adjudicated to be an abused, neglected, or dependent | 1373 |
child. | 1374 |
(G) In any case involving an alleged or adjudicated abused or | 1375 |
neglected child or an agreement for the voluntary surrender of | 1376 |
temporary or permanent custody of a child that is made in | 1377 |
accordance with section 5103.15 of the Revised Code, the court | 1378 |
shall appoint the guardian ad litem in each case as soon as | 1379 |
possible after the complaint is filed, the request for an | 1380 |
extension of the temporary custody agreement is filed with the | 1381 |
court, or the request for court approval of the permanent custody | 1382 |
agreement is filed. In any case involving an alleged dependent | 1383 |
child in which the parent of the child appears to be mentally | 1384 |
incompetent or is under eighteen years of age, there is a conflict | 1385 |
of interest between the child and the child's parents, guardian, | 1386 |
or custodian, or the court believes that the parent of the child | 1387 |
is not capable of representing the best interest of the child, the | 1388 |
court shall appoint a guardian ad litem for the child. The | 1389 |
guardian ad litem or the guardian ad litem's replacement shall | 1390 |
continue to serve until any of the following occur: | 1391 |
(1) The complaint is dismissed or the request for an | 1392 |
extension of a temporary custody agreement or for court approval | 1393 |
of the permanent custody agreement is withdrawn or denied; | 1394 |
(2) All dispositional orders relative to the child have | 1395 |
terminated; | 1396 |
(3) The legal custody of the child is granted to a relative | 1397 |
of the child, or to another person; | 1398 |
(4) The child is placed in an adoptive home or, at the | 1399 |
court's discretion, a final decree of adoption is issued with | 1400 |
respect to the child; | 1401 |
(5) The child reaches the age of eighteen if the child is not | 1402 |
mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, or physically | 1403 |
impaired or the child reaches the age of twenty-one if the child | 1404 |
is mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, or physically | 1405 |
impaired; | 1406 |
(6) The guardian ad litem resigns or is removed by the court | 1407 |
and a replacement is appointed by the court. | 1408 |
If a guardian ad litem ceases to serve a child pursuant to | 1409 |
division (G)(4) of this section and the petition for adoption with | 1410 |
respect to the child is denied or withdrawn prior to the issuance | 1411 |
of a final decree of adoption or prior to the date an | 1412 |
interlocutory order of adoption becomes final, the juvenile court | 1413 |
shall reappoint a guardian ad litem for that child. The public | 1414 |
children services agency or private child placing agency with | 1415 |
permanent custody of the child shall notify the juvenile court if | 1416 |
the petition for adoption is denied or withdrawn. | 1417 |
(H) If the guardian ad litem for an alleged or adjudicated | 1418 |
abused, neglected, or dependent child is an attorney admitted to | 1419 |
the practice of law in this state, the guardian ad litem also may | 1420 |
serve as counsel to the ward. | 1421 |
rules regarding service as a guardian ad litem that regulate | 1422 |
conflicts between a person's role as guardian ad litem and as | 1423 |
counsel, if a person is serving as guardian ad litem and counsel | 1424 |
for a child and either that person or the court finds that a | 1425 |
conflict may exist between the person's roles as guardian ad litem | 1426 |
and as counsel, the court shall relieve the person of duties as | 1427 |
guardian ad litem and appoint someone else as guardian ad litem | 1428 |
for the child. If the court appoints a person who is not an | 1429 |
attorney admitted to the practice of law in this state to be a | 1430 |
guardian ad litem, the court also may appoint an attorney admitted | 1431 |
to the practice of law in this state to serve as counsel for the | 1432 |
guardian ad litem. | 1433 |
(I) The guardian ad litem for an alleged or adjudicated | 1434 |
abused, neglected, or dependent child shall perform whatever | 1435 |
functions are necessary to protect the best interest of the child, | 1436 |
including, but not limited to, investigation, mediation, | 1437 |
monitoring court proceedings, and monitoring the services provided | 1438 |
the child by the public children services agency or private child | 1439 |
placing agency that has temporary or permanent custody of the | 1440 |
child, and shall file any motions and other court papers that are | 1441 |
in the best interest of the child. | 1442 |
The guardian ad litem shall be given notice of all hearings, | 1443 |
administrative reviews, and other proceedings in the same manner | 1444 |
as notice is given to parties to the action. | 1445 |
(J)(1) When the court appoints a guardian ad litem pursuant | 1446 |
to this section, it shall appoint a qualified volunteer or court | 1447 |
appointed special advocate whenever one is available and the | 1448 |
appointment is appropriate. | 1449 |
(2) Upon request, the department of job and family services | 1450 |
shall provide for the training of volunteer guardians ad litem. | 1451 |
Sec. 2151.353. (A) If a child is adjudicated an abused, | 1452 |
neglected, or dependent child, the court may make any of the | 1453 |
following orders of disposition: | 1454 |
(1) Place the child in protective supervision; | 1455 |
(2) Commit the child to the temporary custody of a public | 1456 |
children services agency, a private child placing agency, either | 1457 |
parent, a relative residing within or outside the state, or a | 1458 |
probation officer for placement in a certified foster home, or in | 1459 |
any other home approved by the court; | 1460 |
(3) Award legal custody of the child to either parent or to | 1461 |
any other person who, prior to the dispositional hearing, files a | 1462 |
motion requesting legal custody of the child | 1463 |
a proposed legal custodian in a complaint or motion filed prior to | 1464 |
the dispositional hearing by any party to the proceedings. A | 1465 |
person identified in a complaint or motion filed by a party to the | 1466 |
proceedings as a proposed legal guardian shall be awarded legal | 1467 |
custody of the child only if the person identified signs a | 1468 |
statement of understanding for legal custody that contains at | 1469 |
least the following provisions: | 1470 |
(a) That it is the intent of the person to become the legal | 1471 |
custodian of the child and the person is able to assume legal | 1472 |
responsibility for the care and supervision of the child; | 1473 |
(b) That the person understands that legal custody of the | 1474 |
child in question is intended to be permanent in nature and that | 1475 |
the person will be responsible as the custodian for the child | 1476 |
until the child reaches the age of majority, unless the person's | 1477 |
duty to see that the child receives an education, in accordance | 1478 |
with the standards prescribed in section 3321.03 of the Revised | 1479 |
Code, has not been excused; | 1480 |
(c) That the parents of the child have residual parental | 1481 |
rights, privileges, and responsibilities, including, but not | 1482 |
limited to, the privilege of reasonable visitation, consent to | 1483 |
adoption, the privilege to determine the child's religious | 1484 |
affiliation, and the responsibility for support; | 1485 |
(d) That the person understands that the person must be | 1486 |
present in court for the dispositional hearing in order to affirm | 1487 |
the person's intention to become legal custodian, to affirm that | 1488 |
the person understands the effect of the custodianship before the | 1489 |
court, and to answer any questions that the court or any parties | 1490 |
to the case may have. | 1491 |
(4) Commit the child to the permanent custody of a public | 1492 |
children services agency or private child placing agency, if the | 1493 |
court determines in accordance with division (E) of section | 1494 |
2151.414 of the Revised Code that the child cannot be placed with | 1495 |
one of the child's parents within a reasonable time or should not | 1496 |
be placed with either parent and determines in accordance with | 1497 |
division (D) of section 2151.414 of the Revised Code that the | 1498 |
permanent commitment is in the best interest of the child. If the | 1499 |
court grants permanent custody under this division, the court, | 1500 |
upon the request of any party, shall file a written opinion | 1501 |
setting forth its findings of fact and conclusions of law in | 1502 |
relation to the proceeding. | 1503 |
(5) Place the child in a planned permanent living arrangement | 1504 |
with a public children services agency or private child placing | 1505 |
agency, if a public children services agency or private child | 1506 |
placing agency requests the court to place the child in a planned | 1507 |
permanent living arrangement and if the court finds, by clear and | 1508 |
convincing evidence, that a planned permanent living arrangement | 1509 |
is in the best interest of the child and that one of the following | 1510 |
exists: | 1511 |
(a) The child, because of physical, mental, or psychological | 1512 |
problems or needs, is unable to function in a family-like setting | 1513 |
and must remain in residential or institutional care. | 1514 |
(b) The parents of the child have significant physical, | 1515 |
mental, or psychological problems and are unable to care for the | 1516 |
child because of those problems, adoption is not in the best | 1517 |
interest of the child, as determined in accordance with division | 1518 |
(D) of section 2151.414 of the Revised Code, and the child retains | 1519 |
a significant and positive relationship with a parent or relative. | 1520 |
(c) The child is sixteen years of age or older, has been | 1521 |
counseled on the permanent placement options available to the | 1522 |
child, is unwilling to accept or unable to adapt to a permanent | 1523 |
placement, and is in an agency program preparing the child for | 1524 |
independent living. | 1525 |
(6) Order the removal from the child's home until further | 1526 |
order of the court of the person who committed abuse as described | 1527 |
in section 2151.031 of the Revised Code against the child, who | 1528 |
caused or allowed the child to suffer neglect as described in | 1529 |
section 2151.03 of the Revised Code, or who is the parent, | 1530 |
guardian, or custodian of a child who is adjudicated a dependent | 1531 |
child and order any person not to have contact with the child or | 1532 |
the child's siblings. | 1533 |
(B) No order for permanent custody or temporary custody of a | 1534 |
child or the placement of a child in a planned permanent living | 1535 |
arrangement shall be made pursuant to this section unless the | 1536 |
complaint alleging the abuse, neglect, or dependency contains a | 1537 |
prayer requesting permanent custody, temporary custody, or the | 1538 |
placement of the child in a planned permanent living arrangement | 1539 |
as desired, the summons served on the parents of the child | 1540 |
contains as is appropriate a full explanation that the granting of | 1541 |
an order for permanent custody permanently divests them of their | 1542 |
parental rights, a full explanation that an adjudication that the | 1543 |
child is an abused, neglected, or dependent child may result in an | 1544 |
order of temporary custody that will cause the removal of the | 1545 |
child from their legal custody until the court terminates the | 1546 |
order of temporary custody or permanently divests the parents of | 1547 |
their parental rights, or a full explanation that the granting of | 1548 |
an order for a planned permanent living arrangement will result in | 1549 |
the removal of the child from their legal custody if any of the | 1550 |
conditions listed in divisions (A)(5)(a) to (c) of this section | 1551 |
are found to exist, and the summons served on the parents contains | 1552 |
a full explanation of their right to be represented by counsel and | 1553 |
to have counsel appointed pursuant to Chapter 120. of the Revised | 1554 |
Code if they are indigent. | 1555 |
If after making disposition as authorized by division (A)(2) | 1556 |
of this section, a motion is filed that requests permanent custody | 1557 |
of the child, the court may grant permanent custody of the child | 1558 |
to the movant in accordance with section 2151.414 of the Revised | 1559 |
Code. | 1560 |
(C) If the court issues an order for protective supervision | 1561 |
pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section, the court may place | 1562 |
any reasonable restrictions upon the child, the child's parents, | 1563 |
guardian, or custodian, or any other person, including, but not | 1564 |
limited to, any of the following: | 1565 |
(1) Order a party, within forty-eight hours after the | 1566 |
issuance of the order, to vacate the child's home indefinitely or | 1567 |
for a specified period of time; | 1568 |
(2) Order a party, a parent of the child, or a physical | 1569 |
custodian of the child to prevent any particular person from | 1570 |
having contact with the child; | 1571 |
(3) Issue an order restraining or otherwise controlling the | 1572 |
conduct of any person which conduct would not be in the best | 1573 |
interest of the child. | 1574 |
(D) As part of its dispositional order, the court shall | 1575 |
journalize a case plan for the child. The journalized case plan | 1576 |
shall not be changed except as provided in section 2151.412 of the | 1577 |
Revised Code. | 1578 |
(E)(1) The court shall retain jurisdiction over any child for | 1579 |
whom the court issues an order of disposition pursuant to division | 1580 |
(A) of this section or pursuant to section 2151.414 or 2151.415 of | 1581 |
the Revised Code until the child attains the age of eighteen years | 1582 |
if the child is not mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, | 1583 |
or physically impaired, the child attains the age of twenty-one | 1584 |
years if the child is mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, | 1585 |
or physically impaired, or the child is adopted and a final decree | 1586 |
of adoption is issued, except that the court may retain | 1587 |
jurisdiction over the child and continue any order of disposition | 1588 |
under division (A) of this section or under section 2151.414 or | 1589 |
2151.415 of the Revised Code for a specified period of time to | 1590 |
enable the child to graduate from high school or vocational | 1591 |
school. The court shall make an entry continuing its jurisdiction | 1592 |
under this division in the journal. | 1593 |
(2) Any public children services agency, any private child | 1594 |
placing agency, the department of job and family services, or any | 1595 |
party, other than any parent whose parental rights with respect to | 1596 |
the child have been terminated pursuant to an order issued under | 1597 |
division (A)(4) of this section, by filing a motion with the | 1598 |
court, may at any time request the court to modify or terminate | 1599 |
any order of disposition issued pursuant to division (A) of this | 1600 |
section or section 2151.414 or 2151.415 of the Revised Code. The | 1601 |
court shall hold a hearing upon the motion as if the hearing were | 1602 |
the original dispositional hearing and shall give all parties to | 1603 |
the action and the guardian ad litem notice of the hearing | 1604 |
pursuant to the Juvenile Rules. If applicable, the court shall | 1605 |
comply with section 2151.42 of the Revised Code. | 1606 |
(F) Any temporary custody order issued pursuant to division | 1607 |
(A) of this section shall terminate one year after the earlier of | 1608 |
the date on which the complaint in the case was filed or the child | 1609 |
was first placed into shelter care, except that, upon the filing | 1610 |
of a motion pursuant to section 2151.415 of the Revised Code, the | 1611 |
temporary custody order shall continue and not terminate until the | 1612 |
court issues a dispositional order under that section. | 1613 |
(G)(1) No later than one year after the earlier of the date | 1614 |
the complaint in the case was filed or the child was first placed | 1615 |
in shelter care, a party may ask the court to extend an order for | 1616 |
protective supervision for six months or to terminate the order. A | 1617 |
party requesting extension or termination of the order shall file | 1618 |
a written request for the extension or termination with the court | 1619 |
and give notice of the proposed extension or termination in | 1620 |
writing before the end of the day after the day of filing it to | 1621 |
all parties and the child's guardian ad litem. If a public | 1622 |
children services agency or private child placing agency requests | 1623 |
termination of the order, the agency shall file a written status | 1624 |
report setting out the facts supporting termination of the order | 1625 |
at the time it files the request with the court. If no party | 1626 |
requests extension or termination of the order, the court shall | 1627 |
notify the parties that the court will extend the order for six | 1628 |
months or terminate it and that it may do so without a hearing | 1629 |
unless one of the parties requests a hearing. All parties and the | 1630 |
guardian ad litem shall have seven days from the date a notice is | 1631 |
sent pursuant to this division to object to and request a hearing | 1632 |
on the proposed extension or termination. | 1633 |
(a) If it receives a timely request for a hearing, the court | 1634 |
shall schedule a hearing to be held no later than thirty days | 1635 |
after the request is received by the court. The court shall give | 1636 |
notice of the date, time, and location of the hearing to all | 1637 |
parties and the guardian ad litem. At the hearing, the court | 1638 |
shall determine whether extension or termination of the order is | 1639 |
in the child's best interest. If termination is in the child's | 1640 |
best interest, the court shall terminate the order. If extension | 1641 |
is in the child's best interest, the court shall extend the order | 1642 |
for six months. | 1643 |
(b) If it does not receive a timely request for a hearing, | 1644 |
the court may extend the order for six months or terminate it | 1645 |
without a hearing and shall journalize the order of extension or | 1646 |
termination not later than fourteen days after receiving the | 1647 |
request for extension or termination or after the date the court | 1648 |
notifies the parties that it will extend or terminate the order. | 1649 |
If the court does not extend or terminate the order, it shall | 1650 |
schedule a hearing to be held no later than thirty days after the | 1651 |
expiration of the applicable fourteen-day time period and give | 1652 |
notice of the date, time, and location of the hearing to all | 1653 |
parties and the child's guardian ad litem. At the hearing, the | 1654 |
court shall determine whether extension or termination of the | 1655 |
order is in the child's best interest. If termination is in the | 1656 |
child's best interest, the court shall terminate the order. If | 1657 |
extension is in the child's best interest, the court shall issue | 1658 |
an order extending the order for protective supervision six | 1659 |
months. | 1660 |
(2) If the court grants an extension of the order for | 1661 |
protective supervision pursuant to division (G)(1) of this | 1662 |
section, a party may, prior to termination of the extension, file | 1663 |
with the court a request for an additional extension of six months | 1664 |
or for termination of the order. The court and the parties shall | 1665 |
comply with division (G)(1) of this section with respect to | 1666 |
extending or terminating the order. | 1667 |
(3) If a court grants an extension pursuant to division | 1668 |
(G)(2) of this section, the court shall terminate the order for | 1669 |
protective supervision at the end of the extension. | 1670 |
(H) The court shall not issue a dispositional order pursuant | 1671 |
to division (A) of this section that removes a child from the | 1672 |
child's home unless the court complies with section 2151.419 of | 1673 |
the Revised Code and includes in the dispositional order the | 1674 |
findings of fact required by that section. | 1675 |
(I) If a motion or application for an order described in | 1676 |
division (A)(6) of this section is made, the court shall not issue | 1677 |
the order unless, prior to the issuance of the order, it provides | 1678 |
to the person all of the following: | 1679 |
(1) Notice and a copy of the motion or application; | 1680 |
(2) The grounds for the motion or application; | 1681 |
(3) An opportunity to present evidence and witnesses at a | 1682 |
hearing regarding the motion or application; | 1683 |
(4) An opportunity to be represented by counsel at the | 1684 |
hearing. | 1685 |
(J) The jurisdiction of the court shall terminate one year | 1686 |
after the date of the award or, if the court takes any further | 1687 |
action in the matter subsequent to the award, the date of the | 1688 |
latest further action subsequent to the award, if the court awards | 1689 |
legal custody of a child to either of the following: | 1690 |
(1) A legal custodian who, at the time of the award of legal | 1691 |
custody, resides in a county of this state other than the county | 1692 |
in which the court is located; | 1693 |
(2) A legal custodian who resides in the county in which the | 1694 |
court is located at the time of the award of legal custody, but | 1695 |
moves to a different county of this state prior to one year after | 1696 |
the date of the award or, if the court takes any further action in | 1697 |
the matter subsequent to the award, one year after the date of the | 1698 |
latest further action subsequent to the award. | 1699 |
The court in the county in which the legal custodian resides | 1700 |
then shall have jurisdiction in the matter. | 1701 |
Sec. 2151.416. (A) Each agency that is required by section | 1702 |
2151.412 of the Revised Code to prepare a case plan for a child | 1703 |
shall complete a semiannual administrative review of the case plan | 1704 |
no later than six months after the earlier of the date on which | 1705 |
the complaint in the case was filed or the child was first placed | 1706 |
in shelter care. After the first administrative review, the agency | 1707 |
shall complete semiannual administrative reviews no later than | 1708 |
every six months. If the court issues an order pursuant to section | 1709 |
2151.414 or 2151.415 of the Revised Code, the agency shall | 1710 |
complete an administrative review no later than six months after | 1711 |
the court's order and continue to complete administrative reviews | 1712 |
no later than every six months after the first review, except that | 1713 |
the court hearing held pursuant to section 2151.417 of the Revised | 1714 |
Code may take the place of any administrative review that would | 1715 |
otherwise be held at the time of the court hearing. When | 1716 |
conducting a review, the child's health and safety shall be the | 1717 |
paramount concern. | 1718 |
(B) Each administrative review required by division (A) of | 1719 |
this section shall be conducted by a review panel of at least | 1720 |
three persons, including, but not limited to, both of the | 1721 |
following: | 1722 |
(1) A caseworker with day-to-day responsibility for, or | 1723 |
familiarity with, the management of the child's case plan; | 1724 |
(2) A person who is not responsible for the management of the | 1725 |
child's case plan or for the delivery of services to the child or | 1726 |
the parents, guardian, or custodian of the child. | 1727 |
(C) Each semiannual administrative review shall include, but | 1728 |
not be limited to, a joint meeting by the review panel with the | 1729 |
parents, guardian, or custodian of the child, the guardian ad | 1730 |
litem of the child, and the child's foster care provider and shall | 1731 |
include an opportunity for those persons to submit any written | 1732 |
materials to be included in the case record of the child. If a | 1733 |
parent, guardian, custodian, guardian ad litem, or foster care | 1734 |
provider of the child cannot be located after reasonable efforts | 1735 |
to do so or declines to participate in the administrative review | 1736 |
after being contacted, the agency does not have to include them in | 1737 |
the joint meeting. | 1738 |
(D) The agency shall prepare a written summary of the | 1739 |
semiannual administrative review that shall include, but not be | 1740 |
limited to, all of the following: | 1741 |
(1) A conclusion regarding the safety and appropriateness of | 1742 |
the child's foster care placement; | 1743 |
(2) The extent of the compliance with the case plan of all | 1744 |
parties; | 1745 |
(3) The extent of progress that has been made toward | 1746 |
alleviating the circumstances that required the agency to assume | 1747 |
temporary custody of the child; | 1748 |
(4) An estimated date by which the child may be returned to | 1749 |
and safely maintained in the child's home or placed for adoption | 1750 |
or legal custody; | 1751 |
(5) An updated case plan that includes any changes that the | 1752 |
agency is proposing in the case plan; | 1753 |
(6) The recommendation of the agency as to which agency or | 1754 |
person should be given custodial rights over the child for the | 1755 |
six-month period after the administrative review; | 1756 |
(7) The names of all persons who participated in the | 1757 |
administrative review. | 1758 |
(E) The agency shall file the summary with the court no later | 1759 |
than seven days after the completion of the administrative review. | 1760 |
If the agency proposes a change to the case plan as a result of | 1761 |
the administrative review, the agency shall file the proposed | 1762 |
change with the court at the time it files the summary. The agency | 1763 |
shall give notice of the summary and proposed change in writing | 1764 |
before the end of the next day after filing them to all parties | 1765 |
and the child's guardian ad litem. All parties and the guardian ad | 1766 |
litem shall have seven days after the date the notice is sent to | 1767 |
object to and request a hearing on the proposed change. | 1768 |
(1) If the court receives a timely request for a hearing, the | 1769 |
court shall schedule a hearing pursuant to section 2151.417 of the | 1770 |
Revised Code to be held not later than thirty days after the court | 1771 |
receives the request. The court shall give notice of the date, | 1772 |
time, and location of the hearing to all parties and the guardian | 1773 |
ad litem. The agency may implement the proposed change after the | 1774 |
hearing, if the court approves it. The agency shall not implement | 1775 |
the proposed change unless it is approved by the court. | 1776 |
(2) If the court does not receive a timely request for a | 1777 |
hearing, the court may approve the proposed change without a | 1778 |
hearing. If the court approves the proposed change without a | 1779 |
hearing, it shall journalize the case plan with the change not | 1780 |
later than fourteen days after the change is filed with the court. | 1781 |
If the court does not approve the proposed change to the case | 1782 |
plan, it shall schedule a review hearing to be held pursuant to | 1783 |
section 2151.417 of the Revised Code no later than thirty days | 1784 |
after the expiration of the fourteen-day time period and give | 1785 |
notice of the date, time, and location of the hearing to all | 1786 |
parties and the guardian ad litem of the child. If, despite the | 1787 |
requirements of this division and division (D) of section 2151.417 | 1788 |
of the Revised Code, the court neither approves and journalizes | 1789 |
the proposed change nor conducts a hearing, the agency may | 1790 |
implement the proposed change not earlier than fifteen days after | 1791 |
it is submitted to the court. | 1792 |
(F) The director of job and family services may adopt rules | 1793 |
pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for procedures and | 1794 |
standard forms for conducting administrative reviews pursuant to | 1795 |
this section. | 1796 |
(G) The juvenile court that receives the written summary of | 1797 |
the administrative review, upon determining, either from the | 1798 |
written summary, case plan, or otherwise, that the custody or care | 1799 |
arrangement is not in the best interest of the child, may | 1800 |
terminate the custody of an agency and place the child in the | 1801 |
custody of another institution or association certified by the | 1802 |
department of job and family services under section 5103.03 of the | 1803 |
Revised Code. | 1804 |
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Sec. 2151.421. (A)(1)(a) No person described in division | 1823 |
(A)(1)(b) of this section who is acting in an official or | 1824 |
professional capacity and knows or suspects that a child under | 1825 |
eighteen years of age or a mentally retarded, developmentally | 1826 |
disabled, or physically impaired child under twenty-one years of | 1827 |
age has suffered or faces a threat of suffering any physical or | 1828 |
mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that | 1829 |
reasonably indicates abuse or neglect of the child, shall fail to | 1830 |
immediately report that knowledge or suspicion to the entity or | 1831 |
persons specified in this division. Except as provided in section | 1832 |
5120.173 of the Revised Code, the person making the report shall | 1833 |
make it to the public children services agency or a municipal or | 1834 |
county peace officer in the county in which the child resides or | 1835 |
in which the abuse or neglect is occurring or has occurred. In the | 1836 |
circumstances described in section 5120.173 of the Revised Code, | 1837 |
the person making the report shall make it to the entity specified | 1838 |
in that section. | 1839 |
(b) Division (A)(1)(a) of this section applies to any person | 1840 |
who is an attorney; physician, including a hospital intern or | 1841 |
resident; dentist; podiatrist; practitioner of a limited branch of | 1842 |
medicine as specified in section 4731.15 of the Revised Code; | 1843 |
registered nurse; licensed practical nurse; visiting nurse; other | 1844 |
health care professional; licensed psychologist; licensed school | 1845 |
psychologist; independent marriage and family therapist or | 1846 |
marriage and family therapist; speech pathologist or audiologist; | 1847 |
coroner; administrator or employee of a child day-care center; | 1848 |
administrator or employee of a residential camp or child day camp; | 1849 |
administrator or employee of a certified child care agency or | 1850 |
other public or private children services agency; school teacher; | 1851 |
school employee; school authority; person engaged in social work | 1852 |
or the practice of professional counseling; agent of a county | 1853 |
humane society; person rendering spiritual treatment through | 1854 |
prayer in accordance with the tenets of a well-recognized | 1855 |
religion; superintendent, board member, or employee of a county | 1856 |
board of mental retardation; investigative agent contracted with | 1857 |
by a county board of mental retardation; or employee of the | 1858 |
department of mental retardation and developmental disabilities. | 1859 |
(2) An attorney or a physician is not required to make a | 1860 |
report pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section concerning any | 1861 |
communication the attorney or physician receives from a client or | 1862 |
patient in an attorney-client or physician-patient relationship, | 1863 |
if, in accordance with division (A) or (B) of section 2317.02 of | 1864 |
the Revised Code, the attorney or physician could not testify with | 1865 |
respect to that communication in a civil or criminal proceeding, | 1866 |
except that the client or patient is deemed to have waived any | 1867 |
testimonial privilege under division (A) or (B) of section 2317.02 | 1868 |
of the Revised Code with respect to that communication and the | 1869 |
attorney or physician shall make a report pursuant to division | 1870 |
(A)(1) of this section with respect to that communication, if all | 1871 |
of the following apply: | 1872 |
(a) The client or patient, at the time of the communication, | 1873 |
is either a child under eighteen years of age or a mentally | 1874 |
retarded, developmentally disabled, or physically impaired person | 1875 |
under twenty-one years of age. | 1876 |
(b) The attorney or physician knows or suspects, as a result | 1877 |
of the communication or any observations made during that | 1878 |
communication, that the client or patient has suffered or faces a | 1879 |
threat of suffering any physical or mental wound, injury, | 1880 |
disability, or condition of a nature that reasonably indicates | 1881 |
abuse or neglect of the client or patient. | 1882 |
(c) The attorney-client or physician-patient relationship | 1883 |
does not arise out of the client's or patient's attempt to have an | 1884 |
abortion without the notification of her parents, guardian, or | 1885 |
custodian in accordance with section 2151.85 of the Revised Code. | 1886 |
(B) Anyone, who knows or suspects that a child under eighteen | 1887 |
years of age or a mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, or | 1888 |
physically impaired person under twenty-one years of age has | 1889 |
suffered or faces a threat of suffering any physical or mental | 1890 |
wound, injury, disability, or other condition of a nature that | 1891 |
reasonably indicates abuse or neglect of the child may report or | 1892 |
cause reports to be made of that knowledge or suspicion to the | 1893 |
entity or persons specified in this division. Except as provided | 1894 |
in section 5120.173 of the Revised Code, a person making a report | 1895 |
or causing a report to be made under this division shall make it | 1896 |
or cause it to be made to the public children services agency or | 1897 |
to a municipal or county peace officer. In the circumstances | 1898 |
described in section 5120.173 of the Revised Code, a person making | 1899 |
a report or causing a report to be made under this division shall | 1900 |
make it or cause it to be made to the entity specified in that | 1901 |
section. | 1902 |
(C) Any report made pursuant to division (A) or (B) of this | 1903 |
section shall be made forthwith either by telephone or in person | 1904 |
and shall be followed by a written report, if requested by the | 1905 |
receiving agency or officer. The written report shall contain: | 1906 |
(1) The names and addresses of the child and the child's | 1907 |
parents or the person or persons having custody of the child, if | 1908 |
known; | 1909 |
(2) The child's age and the nature and extent of the child's | 1910 |
known or suspected injuries, abuse, or neglect or of the known or | 1911 |
suspected threat of injury, abuse, or neglect, including any | 1912 |
evidence of previous injuries, abuse, or neglect; | 1913 |
(3) Any other information that might be helpful in | 1914 |
establishing the cause of the known or suspected injury, abuse, or | 1915 |
neglect or of the known or suspected threat of injury, abuse, or | 1916 |
neglect. | 1917 |
Any person, who is required by division (A) of this section | 1918 |
to report known or suspected child abuse or child neglect, may | 1919 |
take or cause to be taken color photographs of areas of trauma | 1920 |
visible on a child and, if medically indicated, cause to be | 1921 |
performed radiological examinations of the child. | 1922 |
(D) As used in this division, "children's advocacy center" | 1923 |
and "sexual abuse of a child" have the same meanings as in section | 1924 |
2151.425 of the Revised Code. | 1925 |
(1) When a municipal or county peace officer receives a | 1926 |
report concerning the possible abuse or neglect of a child or the | 1927 |
possible threat of abuse or neglect of a child, upon receipt of | 1928 |
the report, the municipal or county peace officer who receives the | 1929 |
report shall refer the report to the appropriate public children | 1930 |
services agency. | 1931 |
(2) When a public children services agency receives a report | 1932 |
pursuant to this division or division (A) or (B) of this section, | 1933 |
upon receipt of the report, the public children services agency | 1934 |
shall do both of the following: | 1935 |
(a) Comply with section 2151.422 of the Revised Code; | 1936 |
(b) If the county served by the agency is also served by a | 1937 |
children's advocacy center and the report alleges sexual abuse of | 1938 |
a child or another type of abuse of a child that is specified in | 1939 |
the memorandum of understanding that creates the center as being | 1940 |
within the center's jurisdiction, comply regarding the report with | 1941 |
the protocol and procedures for referrals and investigations, with | 1942 |
the coordinating activities, and with the authority or | 1943 |
responsibility for performing or providing functions, activities, | 1944 |
and services stipulated in the interagency agreement entered into | 1945 |
under section 2151.428 of the Revised Code relative to that | 1946 |
center. | 1947 |
(E) No township, municipal, or county peace officer shall | 1948 |
remove a child about whom a report is made pursuant to this | 1949 |
section from the child's parents, stepparents, or guardian or any | 1950 |
other persons having custody of the child without consultation | 1951 |
with the public children services agency, unless, in the judgment | 1952 |
of the officer, and, if the report was made by physician, the | 1953 |
physician, immediate removal is considered essential to protect | 1954 |
the child from further abuse or neglect. The agency that must be | 1955 |
consulted shall be the agency conducting the investigation of the | 1956 |
report as determined pursuant to section 2151.422 of the Revised | 1957 |
Code. | 1958 |
(F)(1) Except as provided in section 2151.422 of the Revised | 1959 |
Code or in an interagency agreement entered into under section | 1960 |
2151.428 of the Revised Code that applies to the particular | 1961 |
report, the public children services agency shall investigate, | 1962 |
within twenty-four hours, each report of known or suspected child | 1963 |
abuse or child neglect and of a known or suspected threat of child | 1964 |
abuse or child neglect that is referred to it under this section | 1965 |
to determine the circumstances surrounding the injuries, abuse, or | 1966 |
neglect or the threat of injury, abuse, or neglect, the cause of | 1967 |
the injuries, abuse, neglect, or threat, and the person or persons | 1968 |
responsible. The investigation shall be made in cooperation with | 1969 |
the law enforcement agency and in accordance with the memorandum | 1970 |
of understanding prepared under division (J) of this section. A | 1971 |
representative of the public children services agency shall, at | 1972 |
the time of initial contact with the person subject to the | 1973 |
investigation, inform the person of the specific complaints or | 1974 |
allegations made against the person. The information shall be | 1975 |
given in a manner that is consistent with division (H)(1) of this | 1976 |
section and protects the rights of the person making the report | 1977 |
under this section. | 1978 |
A failure to make the investigation in accordance with the | 1979 |
memorandum is not grounds for, and shall not result in, the | 1980 |
dismissal of any charges or complaint arising from the report or | 1981 |
the suppression of any evidence obtained as a result of the report | 1982 |
and does not give, and shall not be construed as giving, any | 1983 |
rights or any grounds for appeal or post-conviction relief to any | 1984 |
person. The public children services agency shall report each case | 1985 |
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welfare information system that the department of job and family | 1987 |
services
shall maintain in | 1988 |
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the Revised Code. The public children services agency shall submit | 1991 |
a report of its investigation, in writing, to the law enforcement | 1992 |
agency. | 1993 |
(2) The public children services agency shall make any | 1994 |
recommendations to the county prosecuting attorney or city | 1995 |
director of law that it considers necessary to protect any | 1996 |
children that are brought to its attention. | 1997 |
(G)(1)(a) Except as provided in division (H)(3) of this | 1998 |
section, anyone or any hospital, institution, school, health | 1999 |
department, or agency participating in the making of reports under | 2000 |
division (A) of this section, anyone or any hospital, institution, | 2001 |
school, health department, or agency participating in good faith | 2002 |
in the making of reports under division (B) of this section, and | 2003 |
anyone participating in good faith in a judicial proceeding | 2004 |
resulting from the reports, shall be immune from any civil or | 2005 |
criminal liability for injury, death, or loss to person or | 2006 |
property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result | 2007 |
of the making of the reports or the participation in the judicial | 2008 |
proceeding. | 2009 |
(b) Notwithstanding section 4731.22 of the Revised Code, the | 2010 |
physician-patient privilege shall not be a ground for excluding | 2011 |
evidence regarding a child's injuries, abuse, or neglect, or the | 2012 |
cause of the injuries, abuse, or neglect in any judicial | 2013 |
proceeding resulting from a report submitted pursuant to this | 2014 |
section. | 2015 |
(2) In any civil or criminal action or proceeding in which it | 2016 |
is alleged and proved that participation in the making of a report | 2017 |
under this section was not in good faith or participation in a | 2018 |
judicial proceeding resulting from a report made under this | 2019 |
section was not in good faith, the court shall award the | 2020 |
prevailing party reasonable attorney's fees and costs and, if a | 2021 |
civil action or proceeding is voluntarily dismissed, may award | 2022 |
reasonable attorney's fees and costs to the party against whom the | 2023 |
civil action or proceeding is brought. | 2024 |
(H)(1) Except as provided in divisions (H)(4) and (M) of this | 2025 |
section, a report made under this section is confidential. The | 2026 |
information provided in a report made pursuant to this section and | 2027 |
the name of the person who made the report shall not be released | 2028 |
for use, and shall not be used, as evidence in any civil action or | 2029 |
proceeding brought against the person who made the report. In a | 2030 |
criminal proceeding, the report is admissible in evidence in | 2031 |
accordance with the Rules of Evidence and is subject to discovery | 2032 |
in accordance with the Rules of Criminal Procedure. | 2033 |
(2) No person shall permit or encourage the unauthorized | 2034 |
dissemination of the contents of any report made under this | 2035 |
section. | 2036 |
(3) A person who knowingly makes or causes another person to | 2037 |
make a false report under division (B) of this section that | 2038 |
alleges that any person has committed an act or omission that | 2039 |
resulted in a child being an abused child or a neglected child is | 2040 |
guilty of a violation of section 2921.14 of the Revised Code. | 2041 |
(4) If a report is made pursuant to division (A) or (B) of | 2042 |
this section and the child who is the subject of the report dies | 2043 |
for any reason at any time after the report is made, but before | 2044 |
the child attains eighteen years of age, the public children | 2045 |
services agency or municipal or county peace officer to which the | 2046 |
report was made or referred, on the request of the child fatality | 2047 |
review board, shall submit a summary sheet of information | 2048 |
providing a summary of the report to the review board of the | 2049 |
county in which the deceased child resided at the time of death. | 2050 |
On the request of the review board, the agency or peace officer | 2051 |
may, at its discretion, make the report available to the review | 2052 |
board. If the county served by the public children services agency | 2053 |
is also served by a children's advocacy center and the report of | 2054 |
alleged sexual abuse of a child or another type of abuse of a | 2055 |
child is specified in the memorandum of understanding that creates | 2056 |
the center as being within the center's jurisdiction, the agency | 2057 |
or center shall perform the duties and functions specified in this | 2058 |
division in accordance with the interagency agreement entered into | 2059 |
under section 2151.428 of the Revised Code relative to that | 2060 |
advocacy center. | 2061 |
(5) A public children services agency shall advise a person | 2062 |
alleged to have inflicted abuse or neglect on a child who is the | 2063 |
subject of a report made pursuant to this section, including a | 2064 |
report alleging sexual abuse of a child or another type of abuse | 2065 |
of a child referred to a children's advocacy center pursuant to an | 2066 |
interagency agreement entered into under section 2151.428 of the | 2067 |
Revised Code, in writing of the disposition of the investigation. | 2068 |
The agency shall not provide to the person any information that | 2069 |
identifies the person who made the report, statements of | 2070 |
witnesses, or police or other investigative reports. | 2071 |
(I) Any report that is required by this section, other than a | 2072 |
report that is made to the state highway patrol as described in | 2073 |
section 5120.173 of the Revised Code, shall result in protective | 2074 |
services and emergency supportive services being made available by | 2075 |
the public children services agency on behalf of the children | 2076 |
about whom the report is made, in an effort to prevent further | 2077 |
neglect or abuse, to enhance their welfare, and, whenever | 2078 |
possible, to preserve the family unit intact. The agency required | 2079 |
to provide the services shall be the agency conducting the | 2080 |
investigation of the report pursuant to section 2151.422 of the | 2081 |
Revised Code. | 2082 |
(J)(1) Each public children services agency shall prepare a | 2083 |
memorandum of understanding that is signed by all of the | 2084 |
following: | 2085 |
(a) If there is only one juvenile judge in the county, the | 2086 |
juvenile judge of the county or the juvenile judge's | 2087 |
representative; | 2088 |
(b) If there is more than one juvenile judge in the county, a | 2089 |
juvenile judge or the juvenile judges' representative selected by | 2090 |
the juvenile judges or, if they are unable to do so for any | 2091 |
reason, the juvenile judge who is senior in point of service or | 2092 |
the senior juvenile judge's representative; | 2093 |
(c) The county peace officer; | 2094 |
(d) All chief municipal peace officers within the county; | 2095 |
(e) Other law enforcement officers handling child abuse and | 2096 |
neglect cases in the county; | 2097 |
(f) The prosecuting attorney of the county; | 2098 |
(g) If the public children services agency is not the county | 2099 |
department of job and family services, the county department of | 2100 |
job and family services; | 2101 |
(h) The county humane society; | 2102 |
(i) If the public children services agency participated in | 2103 |
the execution of a memorandum of understanding under section | 2104 |
2151.426 of the Revised Code establishing a children's advocacy | 2105 |
center, each participating member of the children's advocacy | 2106 |
center established by the memorandum. | 2107 |
(2) A memorandum of understanding shall set forth the normal | 2108 |
operating procedure to be employed by all concerned officials in | 2109 |
the execution of their respective responsibilities under this | 2110 |
section and division (C) of section 2919.21, division (B)(1) of | 2111 |
section 2919.22, division (B) of section 2919.23, and section | 2112 |
2919.24 of the Revised Code and shall have as two of its primary | 2113 |
goals the elimination of all unnecessary interviews of children | 2114 |
who are the subject of reports made pursuant to division (A) or | 2115 |
(B) of this section and, when feasible, providing for only one | 2116 |
interview of a child who is the subject of any report made | 2117 |
pursuant to division (A) or (B) of this section. A failure to | 2118 |
follow the procedure set forth in the memorandum by the concerned | 2119 |
officials is not grounds for, and shall not result in, the | 2120 |
dismissal of any charges or complaint arising from any reported | 2121 |
case of abuse or neglect or the suppression of any evidence | 2122 |
obtained as a result of any reported child abuse or child neglect | 2123 |
and does not give, and shall not be construed as giving, any | 2124 |
rights or any grounds for appeal or post-conviction relief to any | 2125 |
person. | 2126 |
(3) A memorandum of understanding shall include all of the | 2127 |
following: | 2128 |
(a) The roles and responsibilities for handling emergency and | 2129 |
nonemergency cases of abuse and neglect; | 2130 |
(b) Standards and procedures to be used in handling and | 2131 |
coordinating investigations of reported cases of child abuse and | 2132 |
reported cases of child neglect, methods to be used in | 2133 |
interviewing the child who is the subject of the report and who | 2134 |
allegedly was abused or neglected, and standards and procedures | 2135 |
addressing the categories of persons who may interview the child | 2136 |
who is the subject of the report and who allegedly was abused or | 2137 |
neglected. | 2138 |
(4) If a public children services agency participated in the | 2139 |
execution of a memorandum of understanding under section 2151.426 | 2140 |
of the Revised Code establishing a children's advocacy center, the | 2141 |
agency shall incorporate the contents of that memorandum in the | 2142 |
memorandum prepared pursuant to this section. | 2143 |
(K)(1) Except as provided in division (K)(4) of this section, | 2144 |
a person who is required to make a report pursuant to division (A) | 2145 |
of this section may make a reasonable number of requests of the | 2146 |
public children services agency that receives or is referred the | 2147 |
report, or of the children's advocacy center that is referred the | 2148 |
report if the report is referred to a children's advocacy center | 2149 |
pursuant to an interagency agreement entered into under section | 2150 |
2151.428 of the Revised Code, to be provided with the following | 2151 |
information: | 2152 |
(a) Whether the agency or center has initiated an | 2153 |
investigation of the report; | 2154 |
(b) Whether the agency or center is continuing to investigate | 2155 |
the report; | 2156 |
(c) Whether the agency or center is otherwise involved with | 2157 |
the child who is the subject of the report; | 2158 |
(d) The general status of the health and safety of the child | 2159 |
who is the subject of the report; | 2160 |
(e) Whether the report has resulted in the filing of a | 2161 |
complaint in juvenile court or of criminal charges in another | 2162 |
court. | 2163 |
(2) A person may request the information specified in | 2164 |
division (K)(1) of this section only if, at the time the report is | 2165 |
made, the person's name, address, and telephone number are | 2166 |
provided to the person who receives the report. | 2167 |
When a municipal or county peace officer or employee of a | 2168 |
public children services agency receives a report pursuant to | 2169 |
division (A) or (B) of this section the recipient of the report | 2170 |
shall inform the person of the right to request the information | 2171 |
described in division (K)(1) of this section. The recipient of the | 2172 |
report shall include in the initial child abuse or child neglect | 2173 |
report that the person making the report was so informed and, if | 2174 |
provided at the time of the making of the report, shall include | 2175 |
the person's name, address, and telephone number in the report. | 2176 |
Each request is subject to verification of the identity of | 2177 |
the person making the report. If that person's identity is | 2178 |
verified, the agency shall provide the person with the information | 2179 |
described in division (K)(1) of this section a reasonable number | 2180 |
of times, except that the agency shall not disclose any | 2181 |
confidential information regarding the child who is the subject of | 2182 |
the report other than the information described in those | 2183 |
divisions. | 2184 |
(3) A request made pursuant to division (K)(1) of this | 2185 |
section is not a substitute for any report required to be made | 2186 |
pursuant to division (A) of this section. | 2187 |
(4) If an agency other than the agency that received or was | 2188 |
referred the report is conducting the investigation of the report | 2189 |
pursuant to section 2151.422 of the Revised Code, the agency | 2190 |
conducting the investigation shall comply with the requirements of | 2191 |
division (K) of this section. | 2192 |
(L) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules | 2193 |
in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement | 2194 |
this section. The department of job and family services may enter | 2195 |
into a plan of cooperation with any other governmental entity to | 2196 |
aid in ensuring that children are protected from abuse and | 2197 |
neglect. The department shall make recommendations to the attorney | 2198 |
general that the department determines are necessary to protect | 2199 |
children from child abuse and child neglect. | 2200 |
(M)(1) As used in this division: | 2201 |
(a) "Out-of-home care" includes a nonchartered nonpublic | 2202 |
school if the alleged child abuse or child neglect, or alleged | 2203 |
threat of child abuse or child neglect, described in a report | 2204 |
received by a public children services agency allegedly occurred | 2205 |
in or involved the nonchartered nonpublic school and the alleged | 2206 |
perpetrator named in the report holds a certificate, permit, or | 2207 |
license issued by the state board of education under section | 2208 |
3301.071 or Chapter 3319. of the Revised Code. | 2209 |
(b) "Administrator, director, or other chief administrative | 2210 |
officer" means the superintendent of the school district if the | 2211 |
out-of-home care entity subject to a report made pursuant to this | 2212 |
section is a school operated by the district. | 2213 |
(2) No later than the end of the day following the day on | 2214 |
which a public children services agency receives a report of | 2215 |
alleged child abuse or child neglect, or a report of an alleged | 2216 |
threat of child abuse or child neglect, that allegedly occurred in | 2217 |
or involved an out-of-home care entity, the agency shall provide | 2218 |
written notice of the allegations contained in and the person | 2219 |
named as the alleged perpetrator in the report to the | 2220 |
administrator, director, or other chief administrative officer of | 2221 |
the out-of-home care entity that is the subject of the report | 2222 |
unless the administrator, director, or other chief administrative | 2223 |
officer is named as an alleged perpetrator in the report. If the | 2224 |
administrator, director, or other chief administrative officer of | 2225 |
an out-of-home care entity is named as an alleged perpetrator in a | 2226 |
report of alleged child abuse or child neglect, or a report of an | 2227 |
alleged threat of child abuse or child neglect, that allegedly | 2228 |
occurred in or involved the out-of-home care entity, the agency | 2229 |
shall provide the written notice to the owner or governing board | 2230 |
of the out-of-home care entity that is the subject of the report. | 2231 |
The agency shall not provide witness statements or police or other | 2232 |
investigative reports. | 2233 |
(3) No later than three days after the day on which a public | 2234 |
children services agency that conducted the investigation as | 2235 |
determined pursuant to section 2151.422 of the Revised Code makes | 2236 |
a disposition of an investigation involving a report of alleged | 2237 |
child abuse or child neglect, or a report of an alleged threat of | 2238 |
child abuse or child neglect, that allegedly occurred in or | 2239 |
involved an out-of-home care entity, the agency shall send written | 2240 |
notice of the disposition of the investigation to the | 2241 |
administrator, director, or other chief administrative officer and | 2242 |
the owner or governing board of the out-of-home care entity. The | 2243 |
agency shall not provide witness statements or police or other | 2244 |
investigative reports. | 2245 |
Sec. 2151.423. A public children services agency shall | 2246 |
disclose confidential information discovered during an | 2247 |
investigation conducted pursuant to section 2151.421 or 2151.422 | 2248 |
of the Revised Code to any federal, state, or local government | 2249 |
entity that needs the information to carry out its | 2250 |
responsibilities to protect children from abuse or neglect. | 2251 |
Information disclosed pursuant to this section is | 2252 |
confidential and is not subject to disclosure pursuant to section | 2253 |
149.43 or 1347.08 of the Revised Code by the agency to whom the | 2254 |
information was disclosed. The agency receiving the information | 2255 |
shall maintain the confidentiality of information disclosed | 2256 |
pursuant to this section. | 2257 |
Sec. 3107.014. (A) Except as provided in division (B) of | 2258 |
this section, only an individual who meets all of the following | 2259 |
requirements may perform the duties of an assessor under sections | 2260 |
3107.031, 3107.082, 3107.09, 3107.12, 5103.0324, and 5103.152 of | 2261 |
the Revised Code: | 2262 |
(1) The individual must be in the employ of, appointed by, or | 2263 |
under contract with a court, public children services agency, | 2264 |
private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency; | 2265 |
(2) The individual must be one of the following: | 2266 |
(a) A professional counselor | 2267 |
and family therapist licensed under Chapter 4757. of the Revised | 2268 |
Code; | 2269 |
(b) A psychologist licensed under Chapter 4732. of the | 2270 |
Revised Code; | 2271 |
(c) A student working to earn a four-year, post-secondary | 2272 |
degree in a social or behavior science, or both, who conducts | 2273 |
assessor's duties under the supervision of a professional | 2274 |
counselor | 2275 |
licensed under Chapter 4757. of the Revised Code or a psychologist | 2276 |
licensed under Chapter
4732. of the Revised Code | 2277 |
1, 2009, a student is eligible under this division only if the | 2278 |
supervising professional counselor, social worker, marriage and | 2279 |
family therapist, or psychologist has completed training in | 2280 |
accordance with rules adopted under section 3107.015 of the | 2281 |
Revised Code. | 2282 |
(d) A civil service employee engaging in social work without | 2283 |
a license under Chapter 4757. of the Revised Code, as permitted by | 2284 |
division (A)(5) of section 4757.41 of the Revised Code; | 2285 |
(e) A former employee of a public children services agency | 2286 |
who, while so employed, conducted the duties of an assessor. | 2287 |
(3) The individual must complete | 2288 |
in accordance with rules adopted under section 3107.015 of the | 2289 |
Revised Code. | 2290 |
(B) An individual in the employ of, appointed by, or under | 2291 |
contract with a court prior to September 18, 1996, to conduct | 2292 |
adoption investigations of prospective adoptive parents may | 2293 |
perform the duties of an assessor under sections 3107.031, | 2294 |
3107.082, 3107.09, 3107.12, 5103.0324, and 5103.152 of the Revised | 2295 |
Code if the individual complies with division (A)(3) of this | 2296 |
section regardless of whether the individual meets the requirement | 2297 |
of division (A)(2) of this section. | 2298 |
(C) A court, public children services agency, private child | 2299 |
placing agency, or private noncustodial agency may employ, | 2300 |
appoint, or contract with an assessor in the county in which a | 2301 |
petition for adoption is filed and in any other county or location | 2302 |
outside this state where information needed to complete or | 2303 |
supplement the assessor's duties may be obtained. More than one | 2304 |
assessor may be utilized for an adoption. | 2305 |
Sec. 3107.015. | 2306 |
2307 | |
rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code | 2308 |
governing the | 2309 |
complete for the purpose of division (A)(3) of section 3107.014 of | 2310 |
the Revised
Code. The | 2311 |
courses on adoption placement practice, federal and state adoption | 2312 |
assistance programs, and post adoption support services. | 2313 |
Sec. 3107.016. The department of job and family services | 2314 |
shall
develop a schedule of | 2315 |
meets the requirements established in rules adopted pursuant to | 2316 |
section 3107.015 of the Revised Code. The schedule shall include | 2317 |
enough | 2318 |
the | 2319 |
schedule to all agencies. | 2320 |
Sec. 3107.031. Except as otherwise provided in this section, | 2321 |
an assessor shall conduct a home study for the purpose of | 2322 |
ascertaining whether a person seeking to adopt a minor is suitable | 2323 |
to adopt. The person seeking to adopt a minor shall complete | 2324 |
training specified in rules adopted under section 3107.032 of the | 2325 |
Revised Code as part of the home study. A written report of the | 2326 |
home study shall be filed with the court at least ten days before | 2327 |
the petition for adoption is heard. | 2328 |
The report shall contain the opinion of the assessor as to | 2329 |
whether the person who is the subject of the report is suitable to | 2330 |
adopt a minor | 2331 |
and documents specified in rules adopted by the director of job | 2332 |
and family services under section 3107.032 of the Revised Code, | 2333 |
including documents showing that the person who is the subject of | 2334 |
the report has completed training specified in the rules. The | 2335 |
assessor shall not consider the person's age when determining | 2336 |
whether the person is suitable to adopt if the person is old | 2337 |
enough to adopt as provided by section 3107.03 of the Revised | 2338 |
Code. | 2339 |
An assessor may request departments or agencies within or | 2340 |
outside this state to assist in the home study as may be | 2341 |
appropriate and to make a written report to be included with and | 2342 |
attached to the report to the court. The assessor shall make | 2343 |
similar home studies and reports on behalf of other assessors | 2344 |
designated by the courts of this state or another place. | 2345 |
Upon order of the court, the costs of the home study and | 2346 |
other proceedings shall be paid by the person seeking to adopt, | 2347 |
and, if the home study is conducted by a public agency or public | 2348 |
employee, the part of the cost representing any services and | 2349 |
expenses shall be taxed as costs and paid into the state treasury | 2350 |
or county treasury, as the court may direct. | 2351 |
On request, the assessor shall provide the person seeking to | 2352 |
adopt a copy of the report of the home study. The assessor shall | 2353 |
delete from that copy any provisions concerning the opinion of | 2354 |
other persons, excluding the assessor, of the person's suitability | 2355 |
to adopt a minor. | 2356 |
This section does not apply to a foster caregiver seeking to | 2357 |
adopt the foster caregiver's foster child if the foster child has | 2358 |
resided in the foster caregiver's home for at least twelve months | 2359 |
prior to the date the foster caregiver submits an application | 2360 |
prescribed under division (B) of section 3107.012 of the Revised | 2361 |
Code to the agency arranging the adoption. | 2362 |
Sec. 3107.032. | 2363 |
2364 | |
rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code | 2365 |
specifying | 2366 |
(A) The
manner in which a home study
is to be conducted | 2367 |
2368 |
(B) Training that a person seeking to adopt a minor must | 2369 |
complete as part of the home study; | 2370 |
(C) The information and documents to be included in a home | 2371 |
study report, including documents showing completion of the | 2372 |
training specified in division (B) of this section. | 2373 |
Sec. 3107.17. (A) All hearings held under sections 3107.01 | 2374 |
to 3107.19 of the Revised Code shall be held in closed court | 2375 |
without the admittance of any person other than essential officers | 2376 |
of the court, the parties, the witnesses of the parties, counsel, | 2377 |
persons who have not previously consented to an adoption but who | 2378 |
are required to consent, and representatives of the agencies | 2379 |
present to perform their official duties. | 2380 |
(B)(1) Except as provided in divisions (B)(2) and (D) of this | 2381 |
section and sections 3107.39 to 3107.44 and 3107.60 to 3107.68 of | 2382 |
the Revised Code, no person or governmental entity shall knowingly | 2383 |
reveal any information contained in a paper, book, or record | 2384 |
pertaining to a permanent placement under section 5103.16 of the | 2385 |
Revised Code or to an adoption that is part of the permanent | 2386 |
record of a court or maintained by the department of job and | 2387 |
family services, an agency, or attorney without the consent of a | 2388 |
court. | 2389 |
(2) An agency or attorney may examine the agency's or | 2390 |
attorney's own papers, books, and records pertaining to a | 2391 |
permanent placement or adoption without a court's consent for | 2392 |
official administrative purposes. The department of job and family | 2393 |
services may examine its own papers, books, and records pertaining | 2394 |
to a permanent placement or adoption, or such papers, books, and | 2395 |
records of an agency, without a court's consent for official | 2396 |
administrative, certification, and eligibility determination | 2397 |
purposes. | 2398 |
(C) The petition, the interlocutory order, the final decree | 2399 |
of adoption, and other adoption proceedings shall be recorded in a | 2400 |
book kept for such purposes and shall be separately indexed. The | 2401 |
book shall be a part of the records of the court, and all | 2402 |
consents, affidavits, and other papers shall be properly filed. | 2403 |
(D) All forms that pertain to the social or medical histories | 2404 |
of the biological parents of an adopted person and that were | 2405 |
completed pursuant to section 3107.09 or 3107.091 of the Revised | 2406 |
Code shall be filed only in the permanent record kept by the | 2407 |
court. During the minority of the adopted person, only the | 2408 |
adoptive parents of the person may inspect the forms. When an | 2409 |
adopted person reaches majority, only the adopted person may | 2410 |
inspect the forms. Under the circumstances described in this | 2411 |
division, an adopted person or the adoptive parents are entitled | 2412 |
to inspect the forms upon requesting the clerk of the court to | 2413 |
produce them. | 2414 |
(E)(1) The department of job and family services shall | 2415 |
prescribe a form that permits any person who is authorized by | 2416 |
division (D) of this section to inspect forms that pertain to the | 2417 |
social or medical histories of the biological parents and that | 2418 |
were completed pursuant to section 3107.09 or 3107.091 of the | 2419 |
Revised Code to request notice if any correction or expansion of | 2420 |
either such history, made pursuant to division (D) of section | 2421 |
3107.09 of the Revised Code, is made a part of the permanent | 2422 |
record kept by the court. The form shall be designed to facilitate | 2423 |
the provision of the information and statements described in | 2424 |
division (E)(3) of this section. The department shall provide | 2425 |
copies of the form to each court. A court shall provide a copy of | 2426 |
the request form to each adoptive parent when a final decree of | 2427 |
adoption is entered and shall explain to each adoptive parent at | 2428 |
that time that an adoptive parent who completes and files the form | 2429 |
will be notified of any correction or expansion of either the | 2430 |
social or medical history of the biological parents of the adopted | 2431 |
person made during the minority of the adopted person that is made | 2432 |
a part of the permanent record kept by the court, and that, during | 2433 |
the adopted person's minority, the adopted person may inspect the | 2434 |
forms that pertain to those histories. Upon request, the court | 2435 |
also shall provide a copy of the request form to any adoptive | 2436 |
parent during the minority of the adopted person and to an adopted | 2437 |
person who has reached the age of majority. | 2438 |
(2) Any person who is authorized to inspect forms pursuant to | 2439 |
division (D) of this section who wishes to be notified of | 2440 |
corrections or expansions pursuant to division (D) of section | 2441 |
3107.09 of the Revised Code that are made a part of the permanent | 2442 |
record kept by the court shall file with the court, on a copy of | 2443 |
the form prescribed by the department of job and family services | 2444 |
pursuant to division (E)(1) of this section, a request for such | 2445 |
notification that contains the information and statements required | 2446 |
by division (E)(3) of this section. A request may be filed at any | 2447 |
time if the person who files the request is authorized at that | 2448 |
time to inspect forms that pertain to the social or medical | 2449 |
histories. | 2450 |
(3) A request for notification as described in division | 2451 |
(E)(2) of this section shall contain all of the following | 2452 |
information: | 2453 |
(a) The adopted person's name and mailing address at that | 2454 |
time; | 2455 |
(b) The name of each adoptive parent, and if the adoptive | 2456 |
person is a minor at the time of the filing of the request, the | 2457 |
mailing address of each adoptive parent at that time; | 2458 |
(c) The adopted person's date of birth; | 2459 |
(d) The date of entry of the final decree of adoption; | 2460 |
(e) A statement requesting the court to notify the person who | 2461 |
files the request, at the address provided in the request, if any | 2462 |
correction or expansion of either the social or medical history of | 2463 |
the biological parents is made a part of the permanent record kept | 2464 |
by the court; | 2465 |
(f) A statement that the person who files the request is | 2466 |
authorized, at the time of the filing, to inspect the forms that | 2467 |
pertain to the social and medical histories of the biological | 2468 |
parents; | 2469 |
(g) The signature of the person who files the request. | 2470 |
(4) Upon the filing of a request for notification in | 2471 |
accordance with division (E)(2) of this section, the clerk of the | 2472 |
court in which it is filed immediately shall insert the request in | 2473 |
the permanent record of the case. A person who has filed the | 2474 |
request and who wishes to update it with respect to a new mailing | 2475 |
address may inform the court in writing of the new address. Upon | 2476 |
its receipt, the court promptly shall insert the new address into | 2477 |
the permanent record by attaching it to the request. Thereafter, | 2478 |
any notification described in this division shall be sent to the | 2479 |
new address. | 2480 |
(5) Whenever a social or medical history of a biological | 2481 |
parent is corrected or expanded and the correction or expansion is | 2482 |
made a part of the permanent record kept by the court, the court | 2483 |
shall ascertain whether a request for notification has been filed | 2484 |
in accordance with division (E)(2) of this section. If such a | 2485 |
request has been filed, the court shall determine whether, at that | 2486 |
time, the person who filed the request is authorized, under | 2487 |
division (D) of this section, to inspect the forms that pertain to | 2488 |
the social or medical history of the biological parents. If the | 2489 |
court determines that the person who filed the request is so | 2490 |
authorized, it immediately shall notify the person that the social | 2491 |
or medical history has been corrected or expanded, that it has | 2492 |
been made a part of the permanent record kept by the court, and | 2493 |
that the forms that pertain to the records may be inspected in | 2494 |
accordance with division (D) of this section. | 2495 |
Sec. 3109.16. The children's trust fund board, upon the | 2496 |
recommendation of the director of job and family services, shall | 2497 |
approve the employment of an executive director who will | 2498 |
administer the programs of the board. The department of job and | 2499 |
family services shall provide budgetary, procurement, accounting, | 2500 |
and other related management functions for the board and may adopt | 2501 |
rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for | 2502 |
these purposes. An amount not to exceed three per cent of the | 2503 |
total amount of fees deposited in the children's trust fund in | 2504 |
each fiscal year may be used for costs directly related to these | 2505 |
administrative functions of the department. Each fiscal year, the | 2506 |
board shall approve a budget for administrative expenditures for | 2507 |
the next fiscal year. | 2508 |
The board shall meet at least quarterly at the call of the | 2509 |
chairperson to conduct its official business. All business | 2510 |
transactions of the board shall be conducted in public meetings. | 2511 |
Eight members of the board constitute a quorum. A majority of the | 2512 |
board members is required to adopt the state plan for the | 2513 |
allocation of funds from the children's trust fund. A majority of | 2514 |
the quorum is required to make all other decisions of the board. | 2515 |
The board may apply for and accept federal and other funds | 2516 |
for the purpose of funding child abuse and child neglect | 2517 |
prevention programs. In addition, the board may accept gifts and | 2518 |
donations from any source, including individuals, philanthropic | 2519 |
foundations or organizations, corporations, or corporation | 2520 |
endowments. The acceptance and use of federal funds shall not | 2521 |
entail any commitment or pledge of state funds, nor obligate the | 2522 |
general assembly to continue the programs or activities for which | 2523 |
the federal funds are made available. All funds received in the | 2524 |
manner described in this section shall be transmitted to the | 2525 |
treasurer of state, who shall credit them to the children's trust | 2526 |
fund created in section 3109.14 of the Revised Code. | 2527 |
Sec. 3109.17. (A) For each fiscal biennium, the children's | 2528 |
trust fund board shall establish a biennial state plan for | 2529 |
comprehensive child abuse and child neglect prevention. The plan | 2530 |
shall be transmitted to the governor, the president and minority | 2531 |
leader of the senate, and the speaker and minority leader of the | 2532 |
house of representatives and shall be made available to the | 2533 |
general public. The board may define in the state plan the term | 2534 |
"effective public notice." If the board does not define that term | 2535 |
in the state plan, the board shall include in the state plan the | 2536 |
definition of "effective public notice" specified in rules adopted | 2537 |
by the department of job and family services. | 2538 |
(B) In developing and carrying out the state plan, the | 2539 |
children's trust fund board shall, in accordance with rules | 2540 |
adopted by the department pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised | 2541 |
Code, do all of the following: | 2542 |
(1) Ensure that an opportunity exists for assistance through | 2543 |
child abuse and child neglect prevention programs to persons | 2544 |
throughout the state of various social and economic backgrounds; | 2545 |
(2) Before the thirtieth day of October of each year, notify | 2546 |
each child abuse and child neglect prevention advisory board of | 2547 |
the amount estimated to be allocated to that advisory board for | 2548 |
the following fiscal year; | 2549 |
(3) Develop criteria for county or district local allocation | 2550 |
plans, including criteria for determining the plans' | 2551 |
effectiveness; | 2552 |
(4) Review, and approve or disapprove, county or district | 2553 |
local allocation plans, as described in section 3109.171 of the | 2554 |
Revised Code; | 2555 |
(5) Allocate funds to each child abuse and child neglect | 2556 |
prevention advisory board for the purpose of funding child abuse | 2557 |
and child neglect prevention programs. Funds shall be allocated | 2558 |
among advisory boards according to a formula based on the ratio of | 2559 |
the number of children under age eighteen in the county or | 2560 |
multicounty district to the number of children under age eighteen | 2561 |
in the state, as shown in the most recent federal decennial census | 2562 |
of population. Subject to the availability of funds and except as | 2563 |
provided in section 3109.171 of the Revised Code, each advisory | 2564 |
board shall receive a minimum of ten thousand dollars per fiscal | 2565 |
year. In the case of an advisory board that serves a multicounty | 2566 |
district, the advisory board shall receive, subject to available | 2567 |
funds and except as provided in section 3109.171 of the Revised | 2568 |
Code, a minimum of ten thousand dollars per fiscal year for each | 2569 |
county in the district. Funds shall be disbursed to the advisory | 2570 |
boards twice annually. At least fifty per cent of the funds | 2571 |
allocated to an advisory board for a fiscal year shall be | 2572 |
disbursed to the advisory board not later than the thirtieth day | 2573 |
of September. The remainder of the funds allocated to the | 2574 |
advisory board for that fiscal year shall be disbursed before the | 2575 |
thirty-first day of March. | 2576 |
The board shall specify the criteria child abuse and child | 2577 |
neglect prevention advisory boards are to use in reviewing | 2578 |
applications under division (F)(3) of section 3109.18 of the | 2579 |
Revised Code. | 2580 |
(6) Allocate funds to entities other than child abuse and | 2581 |
child neglect prevention advisory boards for the purpose of | 2582 |
funding child abuse and child neglect prevention programs that | 2583 |
have statewide significance and that have been approved by the | 2584 |
children's trust fund board; | 2585 |
(7) Provide for the monitoring of expenditures from the | 2586 |
children's trust fund and of programs that receive money from the | 2587 |
children's trust fund; | 2588 |
(8) Establish reporting requirements for advisory boards; | 2589 |
(9) Collaborate with appropriate persons and government | 2590 |
entities and facilitate the exchange of information among those | 2591 |
persons and entities for the purpose of child abuse and child | 2592 |
neglect prevention; | 2593 |
(10) Provide for the education of the public and | 2594 |
professionals for the purpose of child abuse and child neglect | 2595 |
prevention; | 2596 |
(11) Create and provide to each advisory board a children's | 2597 |
trust fund grant application form; | 2598 |
(12) Specify the information to be included in a | 2599 |
semiannual and an annual report completed by a children's advocacy | 2600 |
center for which a child abuse and child neglect prevention | 2601 |
advisory board uses funds allocated to the advisory board under | 2602 |
section 3109.172 of the Revised Code, and each other person or | 2603 |
entity that is a recipient of a children's trust fund grant under | 2604 |
division (K)(1) of section 3109.18 of the Revised Code. | 2605 |
(C) The children's trust fund board shall prepare a report | 2606 |
for each fiscal biennium that delineates the expenditure of money | 2607 |
from the children's trust fund. On or before January 1, 2002, and | 2608 |
on or before the first day of January of a year that follows the | 2609 |
end of a fiscal biennium of this state, the board shall file a | 2610 |
copy of the report with the governor, the president and minority | 2611 |
leader of the senate, and the speaker and minority leader of the | 2612 |
house of representatives. | 2613 |
(D) The children's trust fund board shall develop a list of | 2614 |
all state and federal sources of funding that might be available | 2615 |
for establishing, operating, or establishing and operating a | 2616 |
children's advocacy center under sections 2151.425 to 2151.428 of | 2617 |
the Revised Code. The board periodically shall update the list as | 2618 |
necessary. The board shall maintain, or provide for the | 2619 |
maintenance of, the list at an appropriate location. That location | 2620 |
may be the offices of the department of job and family services. | 2621 |
The board shall provide the list upon request to any children's | 2622 |
advocacy center or to any person or entity identified in section | 2623 |
2151.426 of the Revised Code as a person or entity that may | 2624 |
participate in the establishment of a children's advocacy center. | 2625 |
Sec. 5101.13. (A) The department of job and family services | 2626 |
shall establish and maintain a uniform statewide automated child | 2627 |
welfare information system in accordance with the requirements of | 2628 |
42 U.S.C.A. 674(a)(3)(C) and related federal regulations and | 2629 |
guidelines. The information system shall contain records regarding | 2630 |
any of the following: | 2631 |
(1) Investigations of children and families, and children's | 2632 |
care in out-of-home care, in accordance with sections 2151.421 and | 2633 |
5153.16 of the Revised Code; | 2634 |
(2) Care and treatment provided to children and families; | 2635 |
(3) Any other information related to children and families | 2636 |
that state or federal law, regulation, or rule requires the | 2637 |
department or a public children services agency to maintain. | 2638 |
(B) The department shall plan implementation of the | 2639 |
information system on a county by county basis and shall finalize | 2640 |
statewide implementation not later than January 1, 2008. | 2641 |
(C) The department shall promptly notify all public children | 2642 |
services agencies of the initiation and completion of statewide | 2643 |
implementation of the statewide information system established | 2644 |
under division (A) of this section. | 2645 |
(D) "Out-of-home care" has the same meaning as in section | 2646 |
2151.011 of the Revised Code. | 2647 |
Sec. 5101.131. Except as provided in section 5101.132 of the | 2648 |
Revised Code, information contained in or obtained from the | 2649 |
information system established and maintained under section | 2650 |
5101.13 of the Revised Code is confidential and is not subject to | 2651 |
disclosure pursuant to section 149.43 or 1347.08 of the Revised | 2652 |
Code. | 2653 |
Sec. 5101.132. Information contained in the information | 2654 |
system established and maintained under section 5101.13 of the | 2655 |
Revised Code may be accessed only as follows: | 2656 |
(A) The department of job and family services and a public | 2657 |
children services agency may access the information when either of | 2658 |
the following is the case: | 2659 |
(1) The access is directly connected with assessment, | 2660 |
investigation, or services regarding a child or family; | 2661 |
(2) The access is permitted by state or federal law. | 2662 |
(B) A person may access the information in a manner, to the | 2663 |
extent, and for the purposes authorized by rules adopted by the | 2664 |
department. | 2665 |
Sec. 5101.133. No person shall access or use information | 2666 |
contained in the information system established and maintained | 2667 |
under section 5101.13 of the Revised Code other than in accordance | 2668 |
with section 5101.132 of the Revised Code or rules authorized by | 2669 |
that section. | 2670 |
No person shall disclose information obtained from the | 2671 |
information system established and maintained under section | 2672 |
5101.13 of the Revised Code in a manner not specified by rules | 2673 |
authorized by section 5101.134 of the Revised Code. | 2674 |
Sec. 5101.134. (A)(1) The department of job and family | 2675 |
services may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the | 2676 |
Revised Code, as if they were internal management rules, as | 2677 |
necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 5101.13 to | 2678 |
5101.133 of the Revised Code. | 2679 |
(2) The department may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter | 2680 |
119. of the Revised Code as necessary to carry out the purposes of | 2681 |
division (B) of section 5101.132 of the Revised Code. | 2682 |
(B) Public children services agencies shall implement and use | 2683 |
the information system established pursuant to section 5101.13 of | 2684 |
the Revised Code in accordance with rules adopted by the | 2685 |
department. | 2686 |
Sec. 5101.141. (A) As used in sections 5101.141 to 5101.1410 | 2687 |
of the Revised Code, "Title IV-E" means Title IV-E of the "Social | 2688 |
Security Act," 94 Stat. 501, 42 U.S.C. 670 (1980), as amended. | 2689 |
(B) The department of job and family services shall act as | 2690 |
the single state agency to administer federal payments for foster | 2691 |
care and adoption assistance made pursuant to Title IV-E. The | 2692 |
director of job and family services shall adopt rules to implement | 2693 |
this authority. Rules governing financial and administrative | 2694 |
requirements applicable to public children services agencies and | 2695 |
government entities that provide Title IV-E reimbursable placement | 2696 |
services to children shall be adopted in accordance with section | 2697 |
111.15 of the Revised Code, as if they were internal management | 2698 |
rules. Rules governing requirements applicable to private child | 2699 |
placing agencies and private noncustodial agencies and rules | 2700 |
establishing eligibility, program participation, and other | 2701 |
requirements concerning Title IV-E shall be adopted in accordance | 2702 |
with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. A public children services | 2703 |
agency to which the department distributes Title IV-E funds shall | 2704 |
administer the funds in accordance with those rules. | 2705 |
(C)(1) The county, on behalf of each child eligible for | 2706 |
foster care maintenance payments under Title IV-E, shall make | 2707 |
payments to cover the cost of providing all of the following: | 2708 |
(a) The child's food, clothing, shelter, daily supervision, | 2709 |
and school supplies; | 2710 |
(b) The child's personal incidentals; | 2711 |
(c) Reasonable travel to the child's home for visitation. | 2712 |
(2) In addition to payments made under division (C)(1) of | 2713 |
this section, the county may, on behalf of each child eligible for | 2714 |
foster care maintenance payments under Title IV-E, make payments | 2715 |
to cover the cost of providing the following: | 2716 |
(a) Liability insurance with respect to the child; | 2717 |
(b) If the county is participating in the demonstration | 2718 |
project established under division (A) of section 5101.142 of the | 2719 |
Revised Code, services provided under the project. | 2720 |
(3) With respect to a child who is in a child-care | 2721 |
institution, including any type of group home designed for the | 2722 |
care of children or any privately operated program consisting of | 2723 |
two or more certified foster homes operated by a common | 2724 |
administrative unit, the foster care maintenance payments made by | 2725 |
the county on behalf of the child shall include the reasonable | 2726 |
cost of the administration and operation of the institution, group | 2727 |
home, or program, as necessary to provide the items described in | 2728 |
divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section. | 2729 |
(D) To the extent that either foster care maintenance | 2730 |
payments under division (C) of this section or Title IV-E adoption | 2731 |
assistance payments for maintenance costs require the expenditure | 2732 |
of county funds, the board of county commissioners shall report | 2733 |
the nature and amount of each expenditure of county funds to the | 2734 |
department. | 2735 |
(E) The department shall distribute to public children | 2736 |
services agencies that incur and report such expenditures federal | 2737 |
financial participation received for administrative and training | 2738 |
costs incurred in the operation of foster care maintenance and | 2739 |
adoption assistance programs. The department may withhold not more | 2740 |
than three per cent of the federal financial participation | 2741 |
received. The funds withheld may be used only to fund the Ohio | 2742 |
child welfare
training program established under
section | 2743 |
5103.30 of the Revised Code and the university partnership program | 2744 |
for college and university students majoring in social work who | 2745 |
have committed to work for a public children services agency upon | 2746 |
graduation. The funds withheld shall be in addition to any | 2747 |
administration and training cost for which the department is | 2748 |
reimbursed through its own cost allocation plan. | 2749 |
(F) All federal financial participation funds received by a | 2750 |
county pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the | 2751 |
county's children services fund created pursuant to section | 2752 |
5101.144 of the Revised Code. | 2753 |
(G) The department shall periodically publish and distribute | 2754 |
the maximum amounts that the department will reimburse public | 2755 |
children services agencies for making payments on behalf of | 2756 |
children eligible for foster care maintenance payments. | 2757 |
(H) The department, by and through its director, is hereby | 2758 |
authorized to develop, participate in the development of, | 2759 |
negotiate, and enter into one or more interstate compacts on | 2760 |
behalf of this state with agencies of any other states, for the | 2761 |
provision of medical assistance and other social services to | 2762 |
children in relation to whom all of the following apply: | 2763 |
(1) They have special needs. | 2764 |
(2) This state or another state that is a party to the | 2765 |
interstate compact is providing adoption assistance on their | 2766 |
behalf. | 2767 |
(3) They move into this state from another state or move out | 2768 |
of this state to another state. | 2769 |
Sec. 5101.29. When contained in a record held by the | 2770 |
department of job and family services or a county agency, the | 2771 |
following are not public records for purposes of section 149.43 of | 2772 |
the Revised Code: | 2773 |
(A) Names and other identifying information regarding | 2774 |
children enrolled in or attending a child day-care center or home | 2775 |
subject to licensure, certification, or registration under Chapter | 2776 |
5104. of the Revised Code; | 2777 |
(B) Names and other identifying information regarding | 2778 |
children placed with an institution or association certified under | 2779 |
section 5103.03 of the Revised Code; | 2780 |
(C) Names and other identifying information regarding a | 2781 |
person who makes an oral or
written complaint regarding | 2782 |
institution, association, child day-care center, or home subject | 2783 |
to licensure, certification, or registration to the department or | 2784 |
other state or county entity responsible for enforcing Chapter | 2785 |
5103. or 5104. of the Revised Code. | 2786 |
Sec. 5101.35. (A) As used in this section: | 2787 |
(1) "Agency" means the following entities that administer a | 2788 |
family services program: | 2789 |
(a) The department of job and family services; | 2790 |
(b) A county department of job and family services; | 2791 |
(c) A public children services agency; | 2792 |
(d) A private or government entity administering, in whole or | 2793 |
in part, a family services program for or on behalf of the | 2794 |
department of job and family services or a county department of | 2795 |
job and family services or public children services agency. | 2796 |
(2) "Appellant" means an applicant, participant, former | 2797 |
participant, recipient, or former recipient of a family services | 2798 |
program who is entitled by federal or state law to a hearing | 2799 |
regarding a decision or order of the agency that administers the | 2800 |
program. | 2801 |
(3) "Family services program" means assistance provided under | 2802 |
a Title IV-A program as defined in section 5101.80 of the Revised | 2803 |
Code or under Chapter 5104., 5111., or 5115. or section 173.35, | 2804 |
5101.141, 5101.46, 5101.461, 5101.54, 5153.163, or 5153.165 of the | 2805 |
Revised Code, other than assistance provided under section 5101.46 | 2806 |
of the Revised Code by the department of mental health, the | 2807 |
department of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, a | 2808 |
board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, or a | 2809 |
county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities. | 2810 |
(B) Except as provided by divisions (G) and (H) of this | 2811 |
section, an appellant who appeals under federal or state law a | 2812 |
decision or order of an agency administering a family services | 2813 |
program shall, at the appellant's request, be granted a state | 2814 |
hearing by the department of job and family services. This state | 2815 |
hearing shall be conducted in accordance with rules adopted under | 2816 |
this section.
The
state hearing shall be | 2817 |
but neither the recording nor a transcript of the recording shall | 2818 |
be part of the official record of the proceeding. A state hearing | 2819 |
decision is binding upon the agency and department, unless it is | 2820 |
reversed or modified on appeal to the director of job and family | 2821 |
services or a court of common pleas. | 2822 |
(C) Except as provided by division (G) of this section, an | 2823 |
appellant who disagrees with a state hearing decision may make an | 2824 |
administrative appeal to the director of job and family services | 2825 |
in accordance with rules adopted under this section. This | 2826 |
administrative appeal does not require a hearing, but the director | 2827 |
or the director's designee shall review the state hearing decision | 2828 |
and previous administrative action and may affirm, modify, remand, | 2829 |
or reverse the state hearing decision. Any person designated to | 2830 |
make an administrative appeal decision on behalf of the director | 2831 |
shall have been admitted to the practice of law in this state. An | 2832 |
administrative appeal decision is the final decision of the | 2833 |
department and is binding upon the department and agency, unless | 2834 |
it is reversed or modified on appeal to the court of common pleas. | 2835 |
(D) An agency shall comply with a decision issued pursuant to | 2836 |
division (B) or (C) of this section within the time limits | 2837 |
established by rules adopted under this section. If a county | 2838 |
department of job and family services or a public children | 2839 |
services agency fails to comply within these time limits, the | 2840 |
department may take action pursuant to section 5101.24 of the | 2841 |
Revised Code. If another agency fails to comply within the time | 2842 |
limits, the department may force compliance by withholding funds | 2843 |
due the agency or imposing another sanction established by rules | 2844 |
adopted under this section. | 2845 |
(E) An appellant who disagrees with an administrative appeal | 2846 |
decision of the director of job and family services or the | 2847 |
director's designee issued under division (C) of this section may | 2848 |
appeal from the decision to the court of common pleas pursuant to | 2849 |
section 119.12 of the Revised Code. The appeal shall be governed | 2850 |
by section 119.12 of the Revised Code except that: | 2851 |
(1) The person may appeal to the court of common pleas of the | 2852 |
county in which the person resides, or to the court of common | 2853 |
pleas of Franklin county if the person does not reside in this | 2854 |
state. | 2855 |
(2) The person may apply to the court for designation as an | 2856 |
indigent and, if the court grants this application, the appellant | 2857 |
shall not be required to furnish the costs of the appeal. | 2858 |
(3) The appellant shall mail the notice of appeal to the | 2859 |
department of job and family services and file notice of appeal | 2860 |
with the court within thirty days after the department mails the | 2861 |
administrative appeal decision to the appellant. For good cause | 2862 |
shown, the court may extend the time for mailing and filing notice | 2863 |
of appeal, but such time shall not exceed six months from the date | 2864 |
the department mails the administrative appeal decision. Filing | 2865 |
notice of appeal with the court shall be the only act necessary to | 2866 |
vest jurisdiction in the court. | 2867 |
(4) The department shall be required to file a transcript of | 2868 |
the testimony of the state hearing with the court only if the | 2869 |
court orders the department to file the transcript. The court | 2870 |
shall make such an order only if it finds that the department and | 2871 |
the appellant are unable to stipulate to the facts of the case and | 2872 |
that the transcript is essential to a determination of the appeal. | 2873 |
The department shall file the transcript not later than thirty | 2874 |
days after the day such an order is issued. | 2875 |
(F) The department of job and family services shall adopt | 2876 |
rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to | 2877 |
implement this section, including rules governing the following: | 2878 |
(1) State hearings under division (B) of this section. The | 2879 |
rules shall include provisions regarding notice of eligibility | 2880 |
termination and the opportunity of an appellant appealing a | 2881 |
decision or order of a county department of job and family | 2882 |
services to request a county conference with the county department | 2883 |
before the state hearing is held. | 2884 |
(2) Administrative appeals under division (C) of this | 2885 |
section; | 2886 |
(3) Time limits for complying with a decision issued under | 2887 |
division (B) or (C) of this section; | 2888 |
(4) Sanctions that may be applied against an agency under | 2889 |
division (D) of this section. | 2890 |
(G) The department of job and family services may adopt rules | 2891 |
in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing | 2892 |
an appeals process for an appellant who appeals a decision or | 2893 |
order regarding a Title IV-A program identified under division | 2894 |
(A)(4)(c), (d), (e), or (f) of section 5101.80 of the Revised Code | 2895 |
that is different from the appeals process established by this | 2896 |
section. The different appeals process may include having a state | 2897 |
agency that administers the Title IV-A program pursuant to an | 2898 |
interagency agreement entered into under section 5101.801 of the | 2899 |
Revised Code administer the appeals process. | 2900 |
(H) If an appellant receiving medicaid through a health | 2901 |
insuring corporation that holds a certificate of authority under | 2902 |
Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code is appealing a denial of | 2903 |
medicaid services based on lack of medical necessity or other | 2904 |
clinical issues regarding coverage by the health insuring | 2905 |
corporation, the person hearing the appeal may order an | 2906 |
independent medical review if that person determines that a review | 2907 |
is necessary. The review shall be performed by a health care | 2908 |
professional with appropriate clinical expertise in treating the | 2909 |
recipient's condition or disease. The department shall pay the | 2910 |
costs associated with the review. | 2911 |
A review ordered under this division shall be part of the | 2912 |
record of the hearing and shall be given appropriate evidentiary | 2913 |
consideration by the person hearing the appeal. | 2914 |
(I) The requirements of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code | 2915 |
apply to a state hearing or administrative appeal under this | 2916 |
section only to the extent, if any, specifically provided by rules | 2917 |
adopted under this section. | 2918 |
Sec. 5101.72. The department of job and family services, to | 2919 |
the extent of available funds, may reimburse county departments of | 2920 |
job and family services for all or part of the costs they incur in | 2921 |
implementing sections 5101.60 to 5101.71 of the Revised Code. The | 2922 |
director of job and family services shall
adopt | 2923 |
2924 | |
section 111.15 of the Revised Code that provide for reimbursement | 2925 |
of county departments of job and family services under this | 2926 |
section. | 2927 |
The director shall adopt internal management rules in | 2928 |
accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code that do both of | 2929 |
the following: | 2930 |
(A) Implement sections 5101.60 to 5101.71 of the Revised | 2931 |
Code; | 2932 |
(B) Require the county departments to collect and submit to | 2933 |
the department, or ensure that a designated agency collects and | 2934 |
submits to the department, data concerning the implementation of | 2935 |
sections 5101.60 to 5101.71 of the Revised Code. | 2936 |
Sec. 5101.99. (A) Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of | 2937 |
section 5101.61 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than | 2938 |
five hundred dollars. | 2939 |
(B) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5101.27 of the | 2940 |
Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. | 2941 |
(C) Whoever violates section 5101.133 of the Revised Code is | 2942 |
guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. | 2943 |
Sec. 5103.031. Except as provided in section 5103.033 of the | 2944 |
Revised Code, the department of job and family services may not | 2945 |
issue a certificate under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code to a | 2946 |
foster home unless the prospective foster caregiver successfully | 2947 |
completes the following amount of preplacement training through a | 2948 |
preplacement training
program
| 2949 |
of job and family services under section | 2950 |
Revised Code or | 2951 |
division (C) of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code: | 2952 |
(A) If the foster home is a family foster home, at least | 2953 |
twenty-four hours; | 2954 |
(B) If the foster home is a specialized foster home, at least | 2955 |
thirty-six hours. | 2956 |
Sec. 5103.033. (A) The department of job and family services | 2957 |
may issue or renew a certificate under section 5103.03 of the | 2958 |
Revised Code to a foster home for the care of a child who is in | 2959 |
the custody of a public children services agency or private child | 2960 |
placing agency pursuant to an agreement entered into under section | 2961 |
5103.15 of the Revised Code regarding a child who was less than | 2962 |
six months of age on the date the agreement was executed if the | 2963 |
prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver successfully | 2964 |
completes the following amount of training: | 2965 |
(1) For an initial certificate, at least twelve hours of | 2966 |
preplacement training through a preplacement training program | 2967 |
2968 | |
under section
| 2969 |
preplacement training provided under division (C) of section | 2970 |
5103.30 of the Revised Code; | 2971 |
(2) For renewal of a certificate, at least twenty-four hours | 2972 |
of continuing training in the preceding two-year period in | 2973 |
accordance with the foster caregiver's needs assessment and | 2974 |
continuing training plan developed and implemented under section | 2975 |
5103.035 of the Revised Code. | 2976 |
(B) A foster caregiver to whom either division (B)(1) or (2) | 2977 |
of this section applies shall be given an additional amount of | 2978 |
time within which to complete the continuing training required | 2979 |
under division (A)(2) of this section in accordance with rules | 2980 |
adopted by the department of job and family services: | 2981 |
(1) The foster caregiver has served in active duty outside | 2982 |
this state with a branch of the armed forces of the United States | 2983 |
for more than thirty days in the preceding two-year period. | 2984 |
(2) The foster caregiver has served in active duty as a | 2985 |
member of the Ohio organized militia, as defined in section | 2986 |
5923.01 of the Revised Code, for more than thirty days in the | 2987 |
preceding two-year period and that active duty relates to either | 2988 |
an emergency in or outside of this state or to military duty in or | 2989 |
outside of this state. | 2990 |
Sec. 5103.034. (A) | 2991 |
agencies and
private noncustodial | 2992 |
preplacement | 2993 |
approved by the department of job and family services under | 2994 |
section
5103.038 of the Revised Code | 2995 |
2996 | |
2997 | |
2998 | |
foster caregiver or
foster | 2999 |
3000 | |
of recommending agency from which | 3001 |
caregiver or foster caregiver seeks a recommendation. | 3002 |
(B) A private child placing agency or private noncustodial | 3003 |
agency operating a preplacement | 3004 |
training program approved by the department of job and family | 3005 |
services under section 5103.038 of the Revised Code may condition | 3006 |
the enrollment of a prospective foster caregiver or foster | 3007 |
caregiver in | 3008 |
(1) Availability of space in the training program; | 3009 |
(2) | 3010 |
registration fee, if any, by the prospective foster caregiver or | 3011 |
foster caregiver's recommending agency. | 3012 |
(C) | 3013 |
3014 | |
3015 | |
3016 | |
3017 | |
3018 | |
3019 |
| 3020 |
| 3021 |
3022 | |
3023 |
| 3024 |
agency | 3025 |
3026 | |
continuing training program | 3027 |
the department of job and family services under section 5103.038 | 3028 |
of the Revised Code may contract with a person or governmental | 3029 |
entity to administer the program. | 3030 |
Sec. 5103.035. A public children services agency, private | 3031 |
child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency acting as a | 3032 |
recommending agency for a foster
caregiver | 3033 |
3034 | |
implement a written needs assessment and continuing training plan | 3035 |
for the foster caregiver. Each needs assessment and continuing | 3036 |
training plan shall satisfy all of the following requirements: | 3037 |
(A) Be effective for the two-year period the foster | 3038 |
caregiver's certificate is in effect; | 3039 |
(B) Be appropriate for the type of foster home the foster | 3040 |
caregiver operates; | 3041 |
(C) Require the foster caregiver to successfully complete the | 3042 |
training required by the department in rules adopted pursuant to | 3043 |
section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code and any other courses the | 3044 |
agency considers appropriate; | 3045 |
(D) Include criteria the agency is to use to determine | 3046 |
whether the foster caregiver has successfully completed the | 3047 |
courses; | 3048 |
(E) Guarantee that the courses the foster caregiver is | 3049 |
required to complete are available to the foster caregiver at | 3050 |
reasonable times and places; | 3051 |
(F) Specify | 3052 |
training, if any, the agency will waive | 3053 |
3054 | |
to division (B) of section 5103.032
of the Revised Code | 3055 |
3056 | |
3057 | |
3058 | |
3059 | |
3060 |
Sec. 5103.036. (A) For the purpose of determining whether a | 3061 |
prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver has satisfied the | 3062 |
requirement of section 5103.031 or 5103.032 of the Revised Code, a | 3063 |
recommending agency shall
accept training
obtained
from | 3064 |
of the following: | 3065 |
(1) Any preplacement | 3066 |
program | 3067 |
services
under section | 3068 |
Code; | 3069 |
(2) The Ohio child welfare training program pursuant to | 3070 |
divisions (C) and (D) of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code | 3071 |
3072 | |
3073 |
(B) A recommending agency may require that | 3074 |
foster caregiver or foster caregiver successfully complete | 3075 |
additional training as a condition of the agency recommending that | 3076 |
the department of job and family services certify or recertify the | 3077 |
prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver's foster home | 3078 |
under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code. | 3079 |
Sec. 5103.038. (A) Every other year by a date specified in | 3080 |
rules adopted under section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code, each | 3081 |
private child placing agency and private noncustodial agency that | 3082 |
seeks to operate a preplacement training program or continuing | 3083 |
training program under section 5103.034 of the Revised Code shall | 3084 |
submit to the department of job and family services a proposal | 3085 |
outlining the program. The proposal may be the same as, a | 3086 |
modification of, or different from, a model design developed
| 3087 |
3088 |
(B) Not later than thirty days after receiving a proposal | 3089 |
under division (A) of this section, the department shall either | 3090 |
approve or disapprove the proposed program. The department shall | 3091 |
approve a proposed preplacement training program if it complies | 3092 |
with section 5103.039 or 5103.0311 of the Revised Code, as | 3093 |
appropriate, and, in the case of a proposal submitted by an agency | 3094 |
operating a preplacement training program at the time the proposal | 3095 |
is submitted, the department is satisfied with the agency's | 3096 |
operation of the program. The department shall approve a proposed | 3097 |
continuing training program if it complies with rules adopted | 3098 |
pursuant to division (C) of section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code | 3099 |
and, in the case of a proposal submitted by an agency operating a | 3100 |
continuing training program at the time the proposal is submitted, | 3101 |
the department is satisfied with the agency's operation of the | 3102 |
program. If the department disapproves a proposal, it shall | 3103 |
provide the reason for disapproval to the agency that submitted | 3104 |
the proposal and advise the agency of how to revise the proposal | 3105 |
so that the department can approve it. | 3106 |
(C) The department's approval under division (B) of this | 3107 |
section of a proposed preplacement training program or continuing | 3108 |
training program is valid only for two years following the year | 3109 |
the proposal for the program is submitted to the department under | 3110 |
division (A) of this section. | 3111 |
Sec. 5103.039. Except for preplacement training programs | 3112 |
described in section 5103.0311 of the Revised Code, a preplacement | 3113 |
training program shall consist of courses in the role of foster | 3114 |
caregivers as a part of the care and treatment of foster children. | 3115 |
A prospective foster caregiver shall complete all of the courses, | 3116 |
which shall address all of the following: | 3117 |
(A) The legal rights and responsibilities of foster | 3118 |
caregivers; | 3119 |
(B) Public children services agencies, private child placing | 3120 |
agencies, and private noncustodial agencies' policies and | 3121 |
procedures regarding foster caregivers; | 3122 |
(C) The department of job and family services' requirements | 3123 |
for certifying foster homes; | 3124 |
(D) The effects placement, separation, and attachment issues | 3125 |
have on children, their families, and foster caregivers; | 3126 |
(E) Foster caregivers' involvement in permanency planning for | 3127 |
children and their families; | 3128 |
(F) The effects of physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional | 3129 |
abuse, neglect, and substance abuse on normal human growth and | 3130 |
development; | 3131 |
(G) Behavior management techniques; | 3132 |
(H) Effects of caregiving on children's families; | 3133 |
(I) Cultural issues in placement; | 3134 |
(J) Prevention, recognition, and management of communicable | 3135 |
diseases; | 3136 |
(K) Community health and social services available to | 3137 |
children and their families; | 3138 |
(L) The substance of section 2152.72 of the Revised Code. A | 3139 |
course addressing section 2152.72 of the Revised Code shall be not | 3140 |
less than one hour long. | 3141 |
(M) In the case of a preplacement training program for a | 3142 |
prospective foster caregiver seeking certification for a | 3143 |
specialized foster home, additional issues specific to the types | 3144 |
of children placed in specialized foster homes, including | 3145 |
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid, appropriate | 3146 |
behavioral intervention techniques, such as de-escalation, | 3147 |
self-defense, and physical restraint techniques and the | 3148 |
appropriate use of such techniques. | 3149 |
Sec. 5103.0311. (A) A preplacement training program for | 3150 |
prospective foster caregivers described in section 5103.033 of the | 3151 |
Revised Code shall consist of courses that address all of the | 3152 |
following: | 3153 |
(1) The legal rights and responsibilities of foster | 3154 |
caregivers; | 3155 |
(2) The policies and procedures of public children services | 3156 |
agencies, private child placing agencies, and private noncustodial | 3157 |
agencies regarding foster caregivers; | 3158 |
(3) The department of job and family services' requirements | 3159 |
for certifying foster homes; | 3160 |
(4) Infant care; | 3161 |
(5) Early childhood development. | 3162 |
(B) A continuing training program for foster caregivers | 3163 |
described in section 5103.033 of the Revised Code shall meet the | 3164 |
requirements of rules adopted pursuant to section 5103.0316 of the | 3165 |
Revised Code. | 3166 |
Sec. 5103.0312. A public children services agency, private | 3167 |
child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency acting as a | 3168 |
recommending agency for a
foster | 3169 |
3170 | |
pay
| 3171 |
3172 | |
3173 | |
5103.034 or | 3174 |
be based on a stipend rate established by the department of job | 3175 |
and family services. The stipend rate shall be the same regardless | 3176 |
of the type of
recommending agency from
which
| 3177 |
caregiver seeks a recommendation. The department shall, pursuant | 3178 |
to rules adopted under section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code, | 3179 |
reimburse the recommending agency for stipend payments it makes in | 3180 |
accordance with this section. No payment shall be made to an | 3181 |
individual for attending a preplacement training program if the | 3182 |
individual fails to obtain a foster home certificate under section | 3183 |
5103.03 of the Revised Code. | 3184 |
Sec. 5103.0313. | 3185 |
of the Revised Code, the department of job and family services | 3186 |
shall compensate a private child placing agency or private | 3187 |
noncustodial agency for the cost of procuring or operating | 3188 |
preplacement and continuing training programs approved by the | 3189 |
department of job and family services under
section
| 3190 |
5103.038 of the Revised Code for prospective foster caregivers and | 3191 |
foster caregivers who are recommended for initial certification or | 3192 |
recertification by the agency. | 3193 |
The compensation shall be paid to the agency in the form of | 3194 |
an allowance for each hour of preplacement and continuing training | 3195 |
provided or received. | 3196 |
Sec. 5103.0315. The department of job and family services | 3197 |
shall seek federal financial participation for the cost of making | 3198 |
payments under section 5103.0312 of the Revised Code and | 3199 |
allowances under | 3200 |
Revised Code. The department shall notify the governor, president | 3201 |
of the senate, minority leader of the senate, speaker of the house | 3202 |
of representatives, and minority leader of the house of | 3203 |
representatives of any proposed federal legislation that endangers | 3204 |
the federal financial participation. | 3205 |
Sec. 5103.07. The department of job and family services | 3206 |
shall administer funds received under Title IV-B of the "Social | 3207 |
Security Act," | 3208 |
as amended, and the "Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act," 88 | 3209 |
Stat. 4 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 5101, as amended. In administering | 3210 |
these funds, the department may establish a child welfare services | 3211 |
program and a child abuse and neglect prevention and adoption | 3212 |
reform program. The department has all powers necessary for the | 3213 |
adequate administration of these funds and programs. The director | 3214 |
of job and
family services may adopt
| 3215 |
3216 | |
carry out the purposes of this section. | 3217 |
| 3218 |
program is hereby established in the department of job and family | 3219 |
services
| 3220 |
program shall provide all of the following: | 3221 |
| 3222 |
requires an assessor to complete; | 3223 |
(B) The training that section 3107.031 of the Revised Code | 3224 |
requires a person utilizing a public children services agency to | 3225 |
arrange the adoption of a minor to complete as part of a home | 3226 |
study; | 3227 |
(C) The preplacement training that sections 5103.031 and | 3228 |
5103.033 of the Revised Code require a prospective foster | 3229 |
caregiver to complete; | 3230 |
(D) The continuing training that sections 5103.032 and | 3231 |
5103.033 of the Revised Code require a foster caregiver to | 3232 |
complete; | 3233 |
(E) The training that section 5153.122 of the Revised Code | 3234 |
requires | 3235 |
3236 |
| 3237 |
3238 | |
3239 | |
3240 |
| 3241 |
3242 | |
5153.123 of the Revised Code requires a PCSA caseworker supervisor | 3243 |
to complete. | 3244 |
| 3245 |
3246 |
Sec. 5103.301. The Ohio child welfare training program shall | 3247 |
make its preplacement and continuing training provided under | 3248 |
divisions (C) and (D) of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code | 3249 |
available to a prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver | 3250 |
without regard to the type of recommending agency from which the | 3251 |
prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver seeks a | 3252 |
recommendation. | 3253 |
Sec. 5103.302. The Ohio child welfare training program may | 3254 |
condition a prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver's | 3255 |
enrollment in its preplacement and continuing training provided | 3256 |
under divisions (C) and (D) of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code | 3257 |
on the availability of space in the training if the prospective | 3258 |
foster caregiver or foster caregiver's recommending agency is a | 3259 |
private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency. | 3260 |
Sec. 5103.303. When the Ohio child welfare training program | 3261 |
provides preplacement or continuing training to a prospective | 3262 |
foster caregiver or foster caregiver whose recommending agency is | 3263 |
a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency, the | 3264 |
department of job and family services shall not pay the Ohio child | 3265 |
welfare training program the allowance the department would | 3266 |
otherwise pay to the private child placing agency or private | 3267 |
noncustodial agency under section 5103.0313 of the Revised Code | 3268 |
for the training. | 3269 |
Sec. 5103.31. Training provided under section 5103.30 of the | 3270 |
Revised Code shall provide the knowledge, skill, and ability | 3271 |
needed to do the jobs that the training is for. The Ohio child | 3272 |
welfare training program coordinator shall identify the | 3273 |
competencies needed to do the jobs that the training is for so | 3274 |
that the training helps the development of those competencies. In | 3275 |
addition, the training shall do all of the following: | 3276 |
(A) In the case of the training provided under division (A) | 3277 |
of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code, comply with the rules | 3278 |
adopted under section 3107.015 of the Revised Code; | 3279 |
(B) In the case of the training provided under division (B) | 3280 |
of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code, comply with rules adopted | 3281 |
under division (B) of section 3107.032 of the Revised Code; | 3282 |
(C) In the case of the preplacement training provided under | 3283 |
division (C) of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code, comply with | 3284 |
section 5103.039 of the Revised Code and division (A) of section | 3285 |
5103.0311 of the Revised Code; | 3286 |
(D) In the case of the continuing training provided under | 3287 |
division (D) of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code, comply with | 3288 |
rules adopted under division (C) of section 5103.0316 of the | 3289 |
Revised Code; | 3290 |
(E) In the case of the training provided under divisions (E) | 3291 |
and (F) of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code, comply with rules | 3292 |
adopted under section 5153.124 of the Revised Code. | 3293 |
| 3294 |
(1) "Title IV-B" means Title IV-B of the "Social Security Act | 3295 |
of 1967," 81 Stat. 821, 42 U.S.C. 620, as amended. | 3296 |
(2) "Title IV-E" means Title IV-E of the "Social Security | 3297 |
Act," 94 Stat. 501, 42 U.S.C. 670(1980). | 3298 |
(3) "Title XX" has the same meaning as in section 5101.46 of | 3299 |
the Revised Code. | 3300 |
(B) For purposes of adequately funding the Ohio child welfare | 3301 |
training program, the department of job and family services may | 3302 |
use any of the following: | 3303 |
(1) The federal financial participation funds withheld | 3304 |
pursuant to division (E) of section 5101.141 of the Revised Code | 3305 |
in an amount determined by the department; | 3306 |
(2) Funds available under Title XX, Title IV-B, and Title | 3307 |
IV-E to pay for training costs; | 3308 |
(3) Other available state or federal funds; | 3309 |
(4) Funds that a person, including a foundation, makes | 3310 |
available for the program. | 3311 |
Sec. 5103.33. The director of job and family services shall | 3312 |
adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to | 3313 |
implement the Ohio child welfare training program. | 3314 |
Sec. 5103.34. The department of job and family services | 3315 |
shall monitor and evaluate the Ohio child welfare training program | 3316 |
to ensure that the program satisfies all of the requirements | 3317 |
established by law enacted by the general assembly regarding the | 3318 |
program and rules adopted under section 5103.33 of the Revised | 3319 |
Code. As part of the monitoring and evaluation, the department | 3320 |
shall ensure that the training provided under section 5103.30 of | 3321 |
the Revised Code meets all of the requirements of section 5103.31 | 3322 |
of the Revised Code, including the requirement that the training | 3323 |
be competency based. | 3324 |
| 3325 |
of job and family services shall contract with an entity to serve | 3326 |
as the | 3327 |
program coordinator. | 3328 |
3329 | |
select the entity with which to contract from the
| 3330 |
3331 | |
as determined under section 5103.362 of the Revised Code, the | 3332 |
requirements of the request for proposals issued under section | 3333 |
3334 | |
with the entity the department contracted with the previous fiscal | 3335 |
biennium even though no request for proposals is issued if, as | 3336 |
specified in section 5103.361 of the Revised Code, a request for | 3337 |
proposals is not required for the upcoming fiscal biennium. | 3338 |
A contract entered into under this section shall be effective | 3339 |
on the first day of the fiscal biennium for which it is entered | 3340 |
into and terminate on the last day of that fiscal biennium. The | 3341 |
contract shall require the coordinator to perform the duties | 3342 |
specified in section 5103.37 of the Revised Code. | 3343 |
| 3344 |
3345 | |
develop and issue or cause to be issued a request for proposals | 3346 |
for | 3347 |
3348 | |
training program
| 3349 |
shall develop the request for proposals in consultation with | 3350 |
individuals | 3351 |
the Revised Code. The request for proposals shall explain the | 3352 |
types of duties of the coordinator. | 3353 |
Sec. 5103.361. (A) Except as provided in division (B) of | 3354 |
this section, the request for proposals required by section | 3355 |
5103.36 of the Revised Code shall be developed and issued before | 3356 |
the beginning of each fiscal biennium. | 3357 |
(B) The department is not required to develop and issue or | 3358 |
cause to be issued the request for proposals before the beginning | 3359 |
of a fiscal biennium if both of the following are the case: | 3360 |
(1) The department developed and issued or caused to be | 3361 |
issued such a request for proposals before at least one of the | 3362 |
three previous fiscal biennia; | 3363 |
(2) The department and entity under contract to serve as the | 3364 |
Ohio child welfare training program coordinator contract for that | 3365 |
entity to continue serving as the coordinator for the upcoming | 3366 |
fiscal biennium. | 3367 |
| 3368 |
3369 | |
3370 | |
Code, the department of job and family services shall
| 3371 |
3372 | |
response to a request for proposals issued under section
| 3373 |
5103.36 of the Revised Code | 3374 |
3375 | |
requirements of the request. | 3376 |
| 3377 |
services shall
| 3378 |
following organizations to perform the consultation and | 3379 |
recommendation duties under sections | 3380 |
5103.362 of the Revised Code: | 3381 |
(A) Regional training centers established under section | 3382 |
3383 |
(B) Staff of public children services agencies; | 3384 |
(C) Staff of the state department of job and family services; | 3385 |
(D) A statewide organization that represents the interests of | 3386 |
public children services agencies. | 3387 |
| 3388 |
3389 | |
program coordinator
shall do all the following | 3390 |
3391 | |
5103.35 of the Revised Code: | 3392 |
(A) | 3393 |
program's training | 3394 |
under section 5103.30 of the Revised Code; | 3395 |
(B) Develop | 3396 |
the training; | 3397 |
(C) Provide fiscal management and technical assistance to | 3398 |
regional training centers established under section | 3399 |
5103.42 of the Revised Code; | 3400 |
(D) Cooperate with the regional training centers to schedule | 3401 |
3402 | |
training sessions, and provide training materials for the | 3403 |
sessions; | 3404 |
(E) Employ and compensate | 3405 |
the training; | 3406 |
(F) Create individual training needs | 3407 |
assessments for use
pursuant to sections | 3408 |
3409 |
(G) Provide staff for the Ohio child welfare training program | 3410 |
steering committee established under section 5103.39 of the | 3411 |
Revised Code; | 3412 |
(H) Conduct any other activities necessary for the | 3413 |
development,
implementation, and management of the | 3414 |
program as specified in the contract. | 3415 |
| 3416 |
services shall
oversee the | 3417 |
3418 | |
welfare training program coordinator's development, | 3419 |
implementation, and management of the Ohio child welfare training | 3420 |
program. | 3421 |
| 3422 |
services shall establish the Ohio child welfare training program | 3423 |
steering committee. Sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code | 3424 |
do not apply to the committee. | 3425 |
| 3426 |
services shall appoint all of the following to serve on the Ohio | 3427 |
child welfare training program steering committee: | 3428 |
| 3429 |
services; | 3430 |
| 3431 |
regional training centers established
under section | 3432 |
5103.42 of the Revised Code; | 3433 |
| 3434 |
that represents the interests of public children services | 3435 |
agencies; | 3436 |
| 3437 |
3438 | |
training program coordinator; | 3439 |
| 3440 |
agencies. | 3441 |
| 3442 |
3443 | |
3444 |
| 3445 |
3446 | |
3447 | |
3448 |
| 3449 |
3450 | |
3451 | |
3452 | |
3453 |
Sec. 5103.40. The Ohio child welfare training program | 3454 |
steering committee shall do all of the following: | 3455 |
(A) Following procedures the committee shall establish, | 3456 |
adopt, amend, and rescind by-laws as necessary regarding the | 3457 |
committee's governance, frequency of meetings, and other matters | 3458 |
concerning the committee's operation; | 3459 |
(B) Conduct strategic planning activities regarding the Ohio | 3460 |
child welfare training program; | 3461 |
(C) Provide the department of job and family services and | 3462 |
Ohio child welfare training program coordinator recommendations | 3463 |
regarding the program's operation; | 3464 |
(D) After reviewing individual training needs assessments | 3465 |
completed under sections 5153.125 and 5153.126 of the Revised | 3466 |
Code, consult with the Ohio child welfare training program | 3467 |
coordinator on the design and content of the training that the | 3468 |
program provides pursuant to divisions (E) and (F) of section | 3469 |
5103.30 of the Revised Code; | 3470 |
(E) Review curricula created for the training provided under | 3471 |
section 5103.30 of the Revised Code; | 3472 |
(F) Provide the department recommendations regarding the | 3473 |
curricula reviewed under division (E) of this section as the | 3474 |
committee determines necessary for the training to be relevant to | 3475 |
the needs of the child welfare field; | 3476 |
(G) Evaluate the training and provide the department | 3477 |
recommendations as the committee determines necessary for the | 3478 |
training to be able to enable all of the following: | 3479 |
(1) Assessors to satisfy the training requirement of section | 3480 |
3107.014 of the Revised Code; | 3481 |
(2) Persons utilizing a public children services agency to | 3482 |
adopt a minor to satisfy the training that must be completed as | 3483 |
part of a home study under section 3107.031 of the Revised Code; | 3484 |
(3) Prospective foster caregivers and foster caregivers to | 3485 |
satisfy the preplacement and continuing training requirements of | 3486 |
sections 5103.031, 5103.032, and 5103.033 of the Revised Code; | 3487 |
(4) PCSA caseworkers to satisfy the training requirements of | 3488 |
section 5153.122 of the Revised Code; | 3489 |
(5) PCSA caseworker supervisors to satisfy the training | 3490 |
requirements of section 5153.123 of the Revised Code. | 3491 |
| 3492 |
biennium that first
follows
| 3493 |
October 5, 2000, the department of job and family services, in | 3494 |
consultation with the Ohio child welfare training program steering | 3495 |
committee, shall designate eight training regions in the state. | 3496 |
The department, at times it selects, shall review the composition | 3497 |
of the training regions. The committee, at times it selects, shall | 3498 |
also review the training regions' composition and provide the | 3499 |
department recommendations on changes. The department may change | 3500 |
the composition of the training regions as | 3501 |
considers necessary. Each training region shall contain only one | 3502 |
regional training center established and maintained under section | 3503 |
3504 |
| 3505 |
biennium that first follows October 5, 2000, the public children | 3506 |
services agencies of Athens, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Greene, Guernsey, | 3507 |
Hamilton, Lucas, and Summit counties shall each establish and | 3508 |
maintain a regional training center. At any time after the | 3509 |
beginning of that biennium, the department of job and family | 3510 |
services, on the recommendation of the Ohio child welfare training | 3511 |
program steering committee, may direct a public children services | 3512 |
agency to establish and maintain a training center to replace the | 3513 |
center established by an agency under this section. There may be | 3514 |
no more and no less than eight centers in existence at any time. | 3515 |
The department may make a grant to a public children services | 3516 |
agency that establishes and maintains a regional training center | 3517 |
under this section for the purpose of wholly or partially | 3518 |
subsidizing the operation of the center. The department shall | 3519 |
specify in the grant all of the center's duties, including the | 3520 |
duties specified in section 5103.422 of the Revised Code. | 3521 |
| 3522 |
children services agency required to establish and maintain a | 3523 |
regional training center shall appoint a manager to operate the | 3524 |
training center in
accordance with section | 3525 |
Revised Code. | 3526 |
| 3527 |
responsibilities shall include all of the following: | 3528 |
(A) | 3529 |
training | 3530 |
the Revised Code; | 3531 |
(B) | 3532 |
all administrative costs related to the conduct of the training | 3533 |
3534 |
(C) | 3535 |
the individual training needs assessments for each PCSA caseworker | 3536 |
and PCSA caseworker supervisor employed by a public children | 3537 |
services agency located in the training region served by the | 3538 |
center; | 3539 |
(D) | 3540 |
PCSA caseworker supervisors employed by a public children services | 3541 |
agency located in the training region served by the center; | 3542 |
(E) | 3543 |
3544 | |
3545 | |
training program coordinator. | 3546 |
Sec. 5104.01. As used in this chapter: | 3547 |
(A) "Administrator" means the person responsible for the | 3548 |
daily operation of a center or type A home. The administrator and | 3549 |
the owner may be the same person. | 3550 |
(B) "Approved child day camp" means a child day camp approved | 3551 |
pursuant to section 5104.22 of the Revised Code. | 3552 |
(C) "Authorized provider" means a person authorized by a | 3553 |
county director of job and family services to operate a certified | 3554 |
type B family day-care home. | 3555 |
(D) "Border state child care provider" means a child care | 3556 |
provider that is located in a state bordering Ohio and that is | 3557 |
licensed, certified, or otherwise approved by that state to | 3558 |
provide child care. | 3559 |
(E) "Caretaker parent" means the father or mother of a child | 3560 |
whose presence in the home is needed as the caretaker of the | 3561 |
child, a person who has legal custody of a child and whose | 3562 |
presence in the home is needed as the caretaker of the child, a | 3563 |
guardian of a child whose presence in the home is needed as the | 3564 |
caretaker of the child, and any other person who stands in loco | 3565 |
parentis with respect to the child and whose presence in the home | 3566 |
is needed as the caretaker of the child. | 3567 |
(F) "Certified type B family day-care home" and "certified | 3568 |
type B home" mean a type B family day-care home that is certified | 3569 |
by the director of the county department of job and family | 3570 |
services pursuant to section 5104.11 of the Revised Code to | 3571 |
receive public funds for providing child care pursuant to this | 3572 |
chapter and any rules adopted under it. | 3573 |
(G) "Chartered nonpublic school" means a school that meets | 3574 |
standards for nonpublic schools prescribed by the state board of | 3575 |
education for nonpublic schools pursuant to section 3301.07 of the | 3576 |
Revised Code. | 3577 |
(H) "Child" includes an infant, toddler, preschool child, or | 3578 |
school child. | 3579 |
(I) "Child care block grant act" means the "Child Care and | 3580 |
Development Block Grant Act of 1990," established in section 5082 | 3581 |
of the "Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990," 104 Stat. | 3582 |
1388-236 (1990), 42 U.S.C. 9858, as amended. | 3583 |
(J) "Child day camp" means a program in which only school | 3584 |
children attend or participate, that operates for no more than | 3585 |
seven hours per day, that operates only during one or more public | 3586 |
school district's regular vacation periods or for no more than | 3587 |
fifteen weeks during the summer, and that operates outdoor | 3588 |
activities for each child who attends or participates in the | 3589 |
program for a minimum of fifty per cent of each day that children | 3590 |
attend or participate in the program, except for any day when | 3591 |
hazardous weather conditions prevent the program from operating | 3592 |
outdoor activities for a minimum of fifty per cent of that day. | 3593 |
For purposes of this division, the maximum seven hours of | 3594 |
operation time does not include transportation time from a child's | 3595 |
home to a child day camp and from a child day camp to a child's | 3596 |
home. | 3597 |
(K) "Child care" means administering to the needs of infants, | 3598 |
toddlers, preschool children, and school children outside of | 3599 |
school hours by persons other than their parents or guardians, | 3600 |
custodians, or relatives by blood, marriage, or adoption for any | 3601 |
part of the twenty-four-hour day in a place or residence other | 3602 |
than a child's own home. | 3603 |
(L) "Child day-care center" and "center" mean any place in | 3604 |
which child care or publicly funded child care is provided for | 3605 |
thirteen or more children at one time or any place that is not the | 3606 |
permanent residence of the licensee or administrator in which | 3607 |
child care or publicly funded child care is provided for seven to | 3608 |
twelve children at one time. In counting children for the | 3609 |
purposes of this division, any children under six years of age who | 3610 |
are related to a licensee, administrator, or employee and who are | 3611 |
on the premises of the center shall be counted. "Child day-care | 3612 |
center" and "center" do not include any of the following: | 3613 |
(1) A place located in and operated by a hospital, as defined | 3614 |
in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code, in which the needs of | 3615 |
children are administered to, if all the children whose needs are | 3616 |
being administered to are monitored under the on-site supervision | 3617 |
of a physician licensed under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code or | 3618 |
a registered nurse licensed under Chapter 4723. of the Revised | 3619 |
Code, and the services are provided only for children who, in the | 3620 |
opinion of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian, are | 3621 |
exhibiting symptoms of a communicable disease or other illness or | 3622 |
are injured; | 3623 |
(2) A child day camp; | 3624 |
(3) A place that provides child care, but not publicly funded | 3625 |
child care, if all of the following apply: | 3626 |
(a) An organized religious body provides the child care; | 3627 |
(b) A parent, custodian, or guardian of at least one child | 3628 |
receiving child care is on the premises and readily accessible at | 3629 |
all times; | 3630 |
(c) The child care is not provided for more than thirty days | 3631 |
a year; | 3632 |
(d) The child care is provided only for preschool and school | 3633 |
children. | 3634 |
(M) "Child care resource and referral service organization" | 3635 |
means a community-based nonprofit organization that provides child | 3636 |
care resource and referral services but not child care. | 3637 |
(N) "Child care resource and referral services" means all of | 3638 |
the following services: | 3639 |
(1) Maintenance of a uniform data base of all child care | 3640 |
providers in the community that are in compliance with this | 3641 |
chapter, including current occupancy and vacancy data; | 3642 |
(2) Provision of individualized consumer education to | 3643 |
families seeking child care; | 3644 |
(3) Provision of timely referrals of available child care | 3645 |
providers to families seeking child care; | 3646 |
(4) Recruitment of child care providers; | 3647 |
(5) Assistance in the development, conduct, and dissemination | 3648 |
of training for child care providers and provision of technical | 3649 |
assistance to current and potential child care providers, | 3650 |
employers, and the community; | 3651 |
(6) Collection and analysis of data on the supply of and | 3652 |
demand for child care in the community; | 3653 |
(7) Technical assistance concerning locally, state, and | 3654 |
federally funded child care and early childhood education | 3655 |
programs; | 3656 |
(8) Stimulation of employer involvement in making child care | 3657 |
more affordable, more available, safer, and of higher quality for | 3658 |
their employees and for the community; | 3659 |
(9) Provision of written educational materials to caretaker | 3660 |
parents and informational resources to child care providers; | 3661 |
(10) Coordination of services among child care resource and | 3662 |
referral service organizations to assist in developing and | 3663 |
maintaining a statewide system of child care resource and referral | 3664 |
services if required by the department of job and family services; | 3665 |
(11) Cooperation with the county department of job and family | 3666 |
services in encouraging the establishment of parent cooperative | 3667 |
child care centers and parent cooperative type A family day-care | 3668 |
homes. | 3669 |
(O) "Child-care staff member" means an employee of a child | 3670 |
day-care center or type A family day-care home who is primarily | 3671 |
responsible for the care and supervision of children. The | 3672 |
administrator may be a part-time child-care staff member when not | 3673 |
involved in other duties. | 3674 |
(P) "Drop-in child day-care center," "drop-in center," | 3675 |
"drop-in type A family day-care home," and "drop-in type A home" | 3676 |
mean a center or type A home that provides child care or publicly | 3677 |
funded child care for children on a temporary, irregular basis. | 3678 |
(Q) "Employee" means a person who either: | 3679 |
(1) Receives compensation for duties performed in a child | 3680 |
day-care center or type A family day-care home; | 3681 |
(2) Is assigned specific working hours or duties in a child | 3682 |
day-care center or type A family day-care home. | 3683 |
(R) "Employer" means a person, firm, institution, | 3684 |
organization, or agency that operates a child day-care center or | 3685 |
type A family day-care home subject to licensure under this | 3686 |
chapter. | 3687 |
(S) "Federal poverty line" means the official poverty | 3688 |
guideline as revised annually in accordance with section 673(2) of | 3689 |
the "Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981," 95 Stat. 511, 42 | 3690 |
U.S.C. 9902, as amended, for a family size equal to the size of | 3691 |
the family of the person whose income is being determined. | 3692 |
(T) "Head start program" means a comprehensive child | 3693 |
development program that receives funds distributed under the | 3694 |
"Head Start Act," 95 Stat. 499 (1981), 42 U.S.C.A. 9831, as | 3695 |
amended, and is licensed as a child day-care center. | 3696 |
(U) "Income" means gross income, as defined in section | 3697 |
5107.10 of the Revised Code, less any amounts required by federal | 3698 |
statutes or regulations to be disregarded. | 3699 |
(V) "Indicator checklist" means an inspection tool, used in | 3700 |
conjunction with an instrument-based program monitoring | 3701 |
information system, that contains selected licensing requirements | 3702 |
that are statistically reliable indicators or predictors of a | 3703 |
child day-care center or type A family day-care home's compliance | 3704 |
with licensing requirements. | 3705 |
(W) "Infant" means a child who is less than eighteen months | 3706 |
of age. | 3707 |
(X) "In-home aide" means a person who does not reside with | 3708 |
the child but provides care in the child's home and is certified | 3709 |
by a county director of job and family services pursuant to | 3710 |
section 5104.12 of the Revised Code to provide publicly funded | 3711 |
child care to a child in a child's own home pursuant to this | 3712 |
chapter and any rules adopted under it. | 3713 |
(Y) "Instrument-based program monitoring information system" | 3714 |
means a method to assess compliance with licensing requirements | 3715 |
for child day-care centers and type A family day-care homes in | 3716 |
which each licensing requirement is assigned a weight indicative | 3717 |
of the relative importance of the requirement to the health, | 3718 |
growth, and safety of the children that is used to develop an | 3719 |
indicator checklist. | 3720 |
(Z) "License capacity" means the maximum number in each age | 3721 |
category of children who may be cared for in a child day-care | 3722 |
center or type A family day-care home at one time as determined by | 3723 |
the director of job and family services considering building | 3724 |
occupancy limits established by the department of commerce, number | 3725 |
of available child-care staff members, amount of available indoor | 3726 |
floor space and outdoor play space, and amount of available play | 3727 |
equipment, materials, and supplies. | 3728 |
(AA) "Licensed preschool program" or "licensed school child | 3729 |
program" means a preschool program or school child program, as | 3730 |
defined in section 3301.52 of the Revised Code, that is licensed | 3731 |
by the department of education pursuant to sections 3301.52 to | 3732 |
3301.59 of the Revised Code. | 3733 |
(BB) "Licensee" means the owner of a child day-care center or | 3734 |
type A family day-care home that is licensed pursuant to this | 3735 |
chapter and who is responsible for ensuring its compliance with | 3736 |
this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. | 3737 |
(CC) "Operate a child day camp" means to operate, establish, | 3738 |
manage, conduct, or maintain a child day camp. | 3739 |
(DD) "Owner" includes a person, as defined in section 1.59 of | 3740 |
the Revised Code, or government entity. | 3741 |
(EE) "Parent cooperative child day-care center," "parent | 3742 |
cooperative center," "parent cooperative type A family day-care | 3743 |
home," and "parent cooperative type A home" mean a corporation or | 3744 |
association organized for providing educational services to the | 3745 |
children of members of the corporation or association, without | 3746 |
gain to the corporation or association as an entity, in which the | 3747 |
services of the corporation or association are provided only to | 3748 |
children of the members of the corporation or association, | 3749 |
ownership and control of the corporation or association rests | 3750 |
solely with the members of the corporation or association, and at | 3751 |
least one parent-member of the corporation or association is on | 3752 |
the premises of the center or type A home during its hours of | 3753 |
operation. | 3754 |
(FF) "Part-time child day-care center," "part-time center," | 3755 |
"part-time type A family day-care home," and "part-time type A | 3756 |
home" mean a center or type A home that provides child care or | 3757 |
publicly funded child care for no more than four hours a day for | 3758 |
any child. | 3759 |
(GG) "Place of worship" means a building where activities of | 3760 |
an organized religious group are conducted and includes the | 3761 |
grounds and any other buildings on the grounds used for such | 3762 |
activities. | 3763 |
(HH) "Preschool child" means a child who is three years old | 3764 |
or older but is not a school child. | 3765 |
(II) "Protective child care" means publicly funded child care | 3766 |
for the direct care and protection of a child to whom either of | 3767 |
the following applies: | 3768 |
(1) A case plan prepared and maintained for the child | 3769 |
pursuant to section 2151.412 of the Revised Code indicates a need | 3770 |
for protective care and the child resides with a parent, | 3771 |
stepparent, guardian, or another person who stands in loco | 3772 |
parentis as defined in rules adopted under section 5104.38 of the | 3773 |
Revised Code; | 3774 |
(2) The child and the child's caretaker either temporarily | 3775 |
reside in a facility providing emergency shelter for homeless | 3776 |
families or are determined by the county department of job and | 3777 |
family services to be homeless, and are otherwise ineligible for | 3778 |
publicly funded child care. | 3779 |
(JJ) "Publicly funded child care" means administering to the | 3780 |
needs of infants, toddlers, preschool children, and school | 3781 |
children under age thirteen during any part of the | 3782 |
twenty-four-hour day by persons other than their caretaker parents | 3783 |
for remuneration wholly or in part with federal or state funds, | 3784 |
including funds available under the child care block grant act, | 3785 |
Title IV-A, and Title XX, distributed by the department of job and | 3786 |
family services. | 3787 |
(KK) "Religious activities" means any of the following: | 3788 |
worship or other religious services; religious instruction; Sunday | 3789 |
school classes or other religious classes conducted during or | 3790 |
prior to worship or other religious services; youth or adult | 3791 |
fellowship activities; choir or other musical group practices or | 3792 |
programs; meals; festivals; or meetings conducted by an organized | 3793 |
religious group. | 3794 |
(LL) "School child" means a child who is enrolled in or is | 3795 |
eligible to be enrolled in a grade of kindergarten or above but is | 3796 |
less than fifteen years old. | 3797 |
(MM) "School child day-care center," "school child center," | 3798 |
"school child type A family day-care home," and "school child type | 3799 |
A family home" mean a center or type A home that provides child | 3800 |
care for school children only and that does either or both of the | 3801 |
following: | 3802 |
(1) Operates only during that part of the day that | 3803 |
immediately precedes or follows the public school day of the | 3804 |
school district in which the center or type A home is located; | 3805 |
(2) Operates only when the public schools in the school | 3806 |
district in which the center or type A home is located are not | 3807 |
open for instruction with pupils in attendance. | 3808 |
(NN) "State median income" means the state median income | 3809 |
calculated by the department of development pursuant to division | 3810 |
(A)(1)(g) of section 5709.61 of the Revised Code. | 3811 |
(OO) "Title IV-A" means Title IV-A of the "Social Security | 3812 |
Act," 110 Stat. 2113 (1996), 42 U.S.C. 601, as amended. | 3813 |
(PP) "Title XX" means Title XX of the "Social Security Act," | 3814 |
88 Stat. 2337 (1974), 42 U.S.C. 1397, as amended. | 3815 |
(QQ) "Toddler" means a child who is at least eighteen months | 3816 |
of age but less than three years of age. | 3817 |
(RR) "Type A family day-care home" and "type A home" mean a | 3818 |
permanent residence of the administrator in which child care or | 3819 |
publicly funded child care is provided for seven to twelve | 3820 |
children at one time or a permanent residence of the administrator | 3821 |
in which child care is provided for four to twelve children at one | 3822 |
time if four or more children at one time are under two years of | 3823 |
age. In counting children for the purposes of this division, any | 3824 |
children under six years of age who are related to a licensee, | 3825 |
administrator, or employee and who are on the premises of the type | 3826 |
A home shall be counted.
| 3827 |
3828 | |
3829 | |
3830 | |
3831 | |
home" and "type A home" do not include any child day camp. | 3832 |
(SS) "Type B family day-care home" and "type B home" mean a | 3833 |
permanent residence of the provider in which child care is | 3834 |
provided for one to six children at one time and in which no more | 3835 |
than three children are under two years of age at one time. In | 3836 |
counting children for the purposes of this division, any children | 3837 |
under six years of age who are related to the provider and who are | 3838 |
on the premises of the type B home shall be counted.
| 3839 |
3840 | |
3841 | |
3842 | |
3843 | |
"Type B family day-care home" and "type B home" do not include any | 3844 |
child day camp. | 3845 |
Sec. 5104.11. (A)(1) Every person desiring to receive | 3846 |
certification for a type B family day-care home to provide | 3847 |
publicly funded child care shall apply for certification to the | 3848 |
county director of job and family services on such forms as the | 3849 |
director of job and family services prescribes. The county | 3850 |
director shall provide at no charge to each applicant a copy of | 3851 |
rules for certifying type B family day-care homes adopted pursuant | 3852 |
to this chapter. | 3853 |
(2) Except as provided in division (G)(1) of section 5104.011 | 3854 |
of the Revised Code, after receipt of an application for | 3855 |
certification from a type B family day-care home, the county | 3856 |
director of job and family services shall inspect the home. If it | 3857 |
complies with this chapter and any applicable rules adopted under | 3858 |
this chapter, the county department shall certify the type B | 3859 |
family day-care home to provide publicly funded child care | 3860 |
pursuant to this chapter and any rules adopted under it. The | 3861 |
director of job and family services or a county director of job | 3862 |
and family services may contract with a government entity or a | 3863 |
private nonprofit entity for that entity to inspect and certify | 3864 |
type B family day-care homes pursuant to this section. The county | 3865 |
department of job and family services, government entity, or | 3866 |
nonprofit entity shall conduct the inspection prior to the | 3867 |
issuance of a certificate for the type B home and, as part of that | 3868 |
inspection, ensure that the type B home is safe and sanitary. | 3869 |
(3)(a) On receipt of an application for certification for a | 3870 |
type B family day-care home to provide publicly funded child care | 3871 |
or for renewal of such certification, the county department shall | 3872 |
request from | 3873 |
following information concerning any abuse or neglect report made | 3874 |
pursuant to section 2151.421 of the Revised Code of which the | 3875 |
applicant, any other adult residing in the applicant's home, or a | 3876 |
person designated by the applicant to be an emergency or | 3877 |
substitute caregiver for the applicant is the subject | 3878 |
(i) The public children services agency, until the county | 3879 |
department is notified by the department of job and family | 3880 |
services that the uniform statewide automated child welfare | 3881 |
information system has been finalized statewide; | 3882 |
(ii) Upon receipt of notification under division (D) of | 3883 |
section 5101.13 of the Revised Code that the uniform statewide | 3884 |
automated child welfare information system has been implemented | 3885 |
statewide, the uniform statewide automated child welfare | 3886 |
information system via the department. | 3887 |
(b) The county department shall consider any information | 3888 |
provided by the agency or the department pursuant to section | 3889 |
5153.175 of the Revised Code. If the county department determines | 3890 |
that the information, when viewed within the totality of the | 3891 |
circumstances, reasonably leads to the conclusion that the | 3892 |
applicant may directly or indirectly endanger the health, safety, | 3893 |
or welfare of children, the county department shall deny the | 3894 |
application for certification or renewal of certification, or | 3895 |
revoke the certification of an authorized provider. | 3896 |
(c) As used in division (A)(3) of this section, "public | 3897 |
children services agency" means either an entity separate from the | 3898 |
county department or the part of the county department that serves | 3899 |
as the county's public children services agency, as appropriate. | 3900 |
(4) Except as provided in division (A)(5) of this section, an | 3901 |
authorized provider of a type B family day-care home that receives | 3902 |
a certificate pursuant to this section to provide publicly funded | 3903 |
child care is an independent contractor and is not an employee of | 3904 |
the county department of job and family services that issues the | 3905 |
certificate. | 3906 |
(5) For purposes of Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code, | 3907 |
determinations concerning the employment of an authorized provider | 3908 |
of a type B family day-care home that receives a certificate | 3909 |
pursuant to this section shall be determined under Chapter 4141. | 3910 |
of the Revised Code. | 3911 |
(B) If the county director of job and family services | 3912 |
determines that the type B family day-care home complies with this | 3913 |
chapter and any rules adopted under it, the county director shall | 3914 |
issue to the provider a certificate to provide publicly funded | 3915 |
child care, which certificate is valid for twelve months, unless | 3916 |
revoked earlier. The county director may revoke the certificate | 3917 |
after determining that revocation is necessary. The authorized | 3918 |
provider shall post the certificate in a conspicuous place in the | 3919 |
certified type B home that is accessible to parents, custodians, | 3920 |
or guardians at all times. The certificate shall state the name | 3921 |
and address of the authorized provider, the maximum number of | 3922 |
children who may be cared for at any one time in the certified | 3923 |
type B home, the expiration date of the certification, and the | 3924 |
name and telephone number of the county director who issued the | 3925 |
certificate. | 3926 |
(C)(1) The county director shall inspect every certified type | 3927 |
B family day-care home at least twice within each twelve-month | 3928 |
period of the operation of the certified type B home. A minimum of | 3929 |
one inspection shall be unannounced and all inspections may be | 3930 |
unannounced. Upon receipt of a complaint, the county director | 3931 |
shall investigate the certified type B home, and division (C)(2) | 3932 |
of this section applies regarding the complaint. The authorized | 3933 |
provider shall permit the county director to inspect any part of | 3934 |
the certified type B home. The county director shall prepare a | 3935 |
written inspection report and furnish one copy to the authorized | 3936 |
provider within a reasonable time after the inspection. | 3937 |
(2) Upon receipt of a complaint as described in division | 3938 |
(C)(1) of this section, in addition to the investigation that is | 3939 |
required under that division, both of the following apply: | 3940 |
(a) If the complaint alleges that a child suffered physical | 3941 |
harm while receiving child care at the certified type B family | 3942 |
day-care home or that the noncompliance with law or act alleged in | 3943 |
the complaint involved, resulted in, or poses a substantial risk | 3944 |
of physical harm to a child receiving child care at the home, the | 3945 |
county director shall inspect the home. | 3946 |
(b) If division (C)(2)(a) of this section does not apply | 3947 |
regarding the complaint, the county director may inspect the | 3948 |
certified type B family day-care home. | 3949 |
(3) Division (C)(2) of this section does not limit, restrict, | 3950 |
or negate any duty of the county director to inspect a certified | 3951 |
type B family day-care home that otherwise is imposed under this | 3952 |
section, or any authority of the county director to inspect a home | 3953 |
that otherwise is granted under this section when the county | 3954 |
director believes the inspection is necessary and it is permitted | 3955 |
under the grant. | 3956 |
(D) The county director of job and family services, in | 3957 |
accordance with rules adopted pursuant to section 5104.052 of the | 3958 |
Revised Code regarding fire safety and fire prevention, shall | 3959 |
inspect each type B home that applies to be certified that is | 3960 |
providing or is to provide publicly funded child care. | 3961 |
(E) All materials that are supplied by the department of job | 3962 |
and family services to type A family day-care home providers, type | 3963 |
B family day-care home providers, in-home aides, persons who | 3964 |
desire to be type A family day-care home providers, type B family | 3965 |
day-care home providers, or in-home aides, and caretaker parents | 3966 |
shall be written at no higher than the sixth grade reading level. | 3967 |
The department may employ a readability expert to verify its | 3968 |
compliance with this division. | 3969 |
Sec. 5104.31. (A) Publicly funded child care may be provided | 3970 |
only by the following: | 3971 |
| 3972 |
home, including a parent cooperative child day-care center or | 3973 |
parent cooperative type A family day-care home, licensed by the | 3974 |
department of job and family services pursuant to section 5104.03 | 3975 |
of the Revised Code; | 3976 |
| 3977 |
department of job and family services pursuant to section 5104.11 | 3978 |
of the Revised Code; | 3979 |
| 3980 |
limited certification pursuant to rules adopted under division | 3981 |
(G)(1) of section 5104.011 of the Revised Code; | 3982 |
| 3983 |
department of job and family services pursuant to section 5104.12 | 3984 |
of the Revised Code; | 3985 |
| 3986 |
of the Revised Code; | 3987 |
| 3988 |
| 3989 |
| 3990 |
border state child care provider may provide publicly funded child | 3991 |
care only to an individual who resides in an Ohio county that | 3992 |
borders the state in which the provider is located. | 3993 |
(B) Publicly funded child day-care may be provided in a | 3994 |
child's own home only by an in-home aide. | 3995 |
Sec. 5153.01. (A) As used in the Revised Code, "public | 3996 |
children services agency" means an entity specified in section | 3997 |
5153.02 of the Revised Code that has assumed the powers and duties | 3998 |
of the children services function prescribed by this chapter for a | 3999 |
county. | 4000 |
(B) As used in this chapter: | 4001 |
(1) "Certified foster home" means a foster home, as defined | 4002 |
in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, certified under section | 4003 |
5103.03 of the Revised Code. | 4004 |
(2) "Certified organization" means any organization holding a | 4005 |
certificate issued pursuant to section 5103.03 of the Revised Code | 4006 |
that is in full force and effect. | 4007 |
(3) "Child" means any person under eighteen years of age or a | 4008 |
mentally or physically handicapped person, as defined by rule | 4009 |
adopted by the director of job and family services, under | 4010 |
twenty-one years of age. | 4011 |
(4) "Executive director" means the person charged with the | 4012 |
responsibility of administering the powers and duties of a public | 4013 |
children services agency appointed pursuant to section 5153.10 of | 4014 |
the Revised Code. | 4015 |
(5) "Organization" means any public, semipublic, or private | 4016 |
institution, including maternity homes and day nurseries, and any | 4017 |
private association, society, or agency, located or operating in | 4018 |
this state, incorporated or unincorporated, having among its | 4019 |
functions the furnishing of protective services or care for | 4020 |
children or the placement of children in certified foster homes or | 4021 |
elsewhere. | 4022 |
(6) "PCSA caseworker" means an individual employed by a | 4023 |
public children services agency as a caseworker. | 4024 |
(7) "PCSA caseworker supervisor" means an individual employed | 4025 |
by a public children services agency to supervise PCSA | 4026 |
caseworkers. | 4027 |
Sec. 5153.111. (A)(1) The executive director of a public | 4028 |
children services agency shall request the superintendent of the | 4029 |
bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a | 4030 |
criminal records check with respect to any applicant who has | 4031 |
applied to the agency for employment as a person responsible for | 4032 |
the care, custody, or control of a child. If the applicant does | 4033 |
not present proof that the applicant has been a resident of this | 4034 |
state for the five-year period immediately prior to the date upon | 4035 |
which the criminal records check is requested or does not provide | 4036 |
evidence that within that five-year period the superintendent has | 4037 |
requested information about the applicant from the federal bureau | 4038 |
of investigation in a criminal records check, the executive | 4039 |
director shall request that the superintendent obtain information | 4040 |
from the federal bureau of investigation as a part of the criminal | 4041 |
records check for the applicant. If the applicant presents proof | 4042 |
that the applicant has been a resident of this state for that | 4043 |
five-year period, the executive director may request that the | 4044 |
superintendent include information from the federal bureau of | 4045 |
investigation in the criminal records check. | 4046 |
(2) Any person required by division (A)(1) of this section to | 4047 |
request a criminal records check shall provide to each applicant a | 4048 |
copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section | 4049 |
109.572 of the Revised Code, provide to each applicant a standard | 4050 |
impression sheet to obtain fingerprint impressions prescribed | 4051 |
pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 109.572 of the Revised | 4052 |
Code, obtain the completed form and impression sheet from each | 4053 |
applicant, and forward the completed form and impression sheet to | 4054 |
the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and | 4055 |
investigation at the time the person requests a criminal records | 4056 |
check pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section. | 4057 |
(3) Any applicant who receives pursuant to division (A)(2) of | 4058 |
this section a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division | 4059 |
(C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and a copy of an | 4060 |
impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that | 4061 |
section and who is requested to complete the form and provide a | 4062 |
set of fingerprint impressions shall complete the form or provide | 4063 |
all the information necessary to complete the form and shall | 4064 |
provide the impression sheet with the impressions of the | 4065 |
applicant's fingerprints. If an applicant, upon request, fails to | 4066 |
provide the information necessary to complete the form or fails to | 4067 |
provide impressions of the applicant's fingerprints, that agency | 4068 |
shall not employ that applicant for any position for which a | 4069 |
criminal records check is required by division (A)(1) of this | 4070 |
section. | 4071 |
(B)(1) Except as provided in rules adopted by the director of | 4072 |
job and family services in accordance with division (E) of this | 4073 |
section, no public children services agency shall employ a person | 4074 |
as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a | 4075 |
child if the person previously has been convicted of or pleaded | 4076 |
guilty to any of the following: | 4077 |
(a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, | 4078 |
2903.04, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.16, 2903.21, 2903.34, | 4079 |
2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.05, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, 2907.05, | 4080 |
2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.23, | 4081 |
2907.25, 2907.31, 2907.32, 2907.321, 2907.322, 2907.323, 2909.02, | 4082 |
2909.03, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, 2919.12, 2919.22, | 4083 |
2919.24, 2919.25, 2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, 2925.03, | 4084 |
2925.04, 2925.05, 2925.06, or 3716.11 of the Revised Code, a | 4085 |
violation of section 2905.04 of the Revised Code as it existed | 4086 |
prior to July 1, 1996, a violation of section 2919.23 of the | 4087 |
Revised Code that would have been a violation of section 2905.04 | 4088 |
of the Revised Code as it existed prior to July 1, 1996, had the | 4089 |
violation occurred prior to that date, a violation of section | 4090 |
2925.11 of the Revised Code that is not a minor drug possession | 4091 |
offense, or felonious sexual penetration in violation of former | 4092 |
section 2907.12 of the Revised Code; | 4093 |
(b) A violation of an existing or former law of this state, | 4094 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 4095 |
equivalent to any of the offenses or violations described in | 4096 |
division (B)(1)(a) of this section. | 4097 |
(2) A public children services agency may employ an applicant | 4098 |
conditionally until the criminal records check required by this | 4099 |
section is completed and the agency receives the results of the | 4100 |
criminal records check. If the results of the criminal records | 4101 |
check indicate that, pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section, | 4102 |
the applicant does not qualify for employment, the agency shall | 4103 |
release the applicant from employment. | 4104 |
(C)(1) Each public children services agency shall pay to the | 4105 |
bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee | 4106 |
prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the | 4107 |
Revised Code for each criminal records check conducted in | 4108 |
accordance with that section upon the request pursuant to division | 4109 |
(A)(1) of this section of the executive director of the agency. | 4110 |
(2) A public children services agency may charge an applicant | 4111 |
a fee for the costs it incurs in obtaining a criminal records | 4112 |
check under this section. A fee charged under this division shall | 4113 |
not exceed the amount of fees the agency pays under division | 4114 |
(C)(1) of this section. If a fee is charged under this division, | 4115 |
the agency shall notify the applicant at the time of the | 4116 |
applicant's initial application for employment of the amount of | 4117 |
the fee and that, unless the fee is paid, the agency will not | 4118 |
consider the applicant for employment. | 4119 |
(D) The report of any criminal records check conducted by the | 4120 |
bureau of criminal identification and investigation in accordance | 4121 |
with section 109.572 of the Revised Code and pursuant to a request | 4122 |
under division (A)(1) of this section is not a public record for | 4123 |
the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not | 4124 |
be made available to any person other than the applicant who is | 4125 |
the subject of the criminal records check or the applicant's | 4126 |
representative, the public children services agency requesting the | 4127 |
criminal records check or its representative, and any court, | 4128 |
hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case | 4129 |
dealing with the denial of employment to the applicant. | 4130 |
(E) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules | 4131 |
pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this | 4132 |
section, including rules specifying circumstances under which a | 4133 |
public children services agency may hire a person who has been | 4134 |
convicted of an offense listed in division (B)(1) of this section | 4135 |
but who meets standards in regard to rehabilitation set by the | 4136 |
department. | 4137 |
(F) Any person required by division (A)(1) of this section to | 4138 |
request a criminal records check shall inform each person, at the | 4139 |
time of the person's initial application for employment, that the | 4140 |
person is required to provide a set of impressions of the person's | 4141 |
fingerprints and that a criminal records check is required to be | 4142 |
conducted and satisfactorily completed in accordance with section | 4143 |
109.572 of the Revised Code if the person comes under final | 4144 |
consideration for appointment or employment as a precondition to | 4145 |
employment for that position. | 4146 |
(G) As used in this section: | 4147 |
(1) "Applicant" means a person who is under final | 4148 |
consideration for appointment or employment in a position with the | 4149 |
agency as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control | 4150 |
of a child. | 4151 |
(2) "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in | 4152 |
section 109.572 of the Revised Code. | 4153 |
(3) "Minor drug possession offense" has the same meaning as | 4154 |
in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. | 4155 |
Sec. 5153.122. | 4156 |
4157 | |
in-service training during the first year of the caseworker's | 4158 |
continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker, except that the | 4159 |
executive director of the public children services agency may | 4160 |
waive the training requirement for a school of social work | 4161 |
graduate who participated in the university partnership program | 4162 |
described in division (D) of section 5101.141 of the Revised Code. | 4163 |
The training shall consist of courses in recognizing and | 4164 |
preventing child abuse and
neglect, assessing
| 4165 |
risk, interviewing persons, investigating cases, intervening, | 4166 |
providing services to children and their families, the importance | 4167 |
of and need for accurate data, preparation for court, maintenance | 4168 |
of case record information, and other topics relevant to child | 4169 |
abuse and neglect. The training shall also include courses in the | 4170 |
legal duties of PCSA caseworkers to protect the constitutional and | 4171 |
statutory rights of children and families from the initial time of | 4172 |
contact during investigation through treatment that shall include | 4173 |
instruction regarding parents' rights and the limitations that the | 4174 |
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution places upon | 4175 |
caseworkers and their investigations. | 4176 |
After | 4177 |
employment as a PCSA caseworker, | 4178 |
shall complete thirty-six hours of training in areas relevant to | 4179 |
the caseworker's assigned duties. | 4180 |
| 4181 |
4182 | |
4183 | |
4184 | |
4185 | |
4186 |
| 4187 |
4188 | |
4189 |
During the first two years of continuous employment as a PCSA | 4190 |
caseworker, each PCSA caseworker shall complete at least twelve | 4191 |
hours of training in recognizing the signs of domestic violence | 4192 |
and its relationship to child abuse as established in rules the | 4193 |
director of job and family services shall adopt pursuant to | 4194 |
Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The twelve hours may be in | 4195 |
addition to the ninety hours of training required during the | 4196 |
caseworker's first year of employment or part of the thirty-six | 4197 |
hours of training required during the second year of employment. | 4198 |
Sec. 5153.123. Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall | 4199 |
complete at least sixty hours of in-service training during the | 4200 |
first year of the supervisor's continuous employment as a PCSA | 4201 |
caseworker supervisor. After a PCSA caseworker supervisor's first | 4202 |
year of continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor, the | 4203 |
supervisor annually shall complete thirty hours of training in | 4204 |
areas relevant to the supervisor's assigned duties. During the | 4205 |
first two years of continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker | 4206 |
supervisor, each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall complete at | 4207 |
least twelve hours of training in recognizing the signs of | 4208 |
domestic violence and its relationship to child abuse as | 4209 |
established in rules the director of job and family services shall | 4210 |
adopt pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The twelve | 4211 |
hours may be in addition to the sixty hours of training required | 4212 |
during the supervisor's first year of employment or part of the | 4213 |
thirty hours of training required during the second year of | 4214 |
employment. | 4215 |
Sec. 5153.124. (A) The director of job and family services | 4216 |
shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the training | 4217 |
requirements of sections 5153.122 and 5153.123 of the Revised | 4218 |
Code. | 4219 |
(B) Notwithstanding sections 5103.33 to 5103.422 and sections | 4220 |
5153.122 to 5153.127 of the Revised Code, the department of job | 4221 |
and family services may require additional training for PCSA | 4222 |
caseworkers and PCSA caseworker supervisors as necessary to comply | 4223 |
with federal requirements. | 4224 |
| 4225 |
4226 | |
4227 | |
each PCSA caseworker the supervisor supervises to determine the | 4228 |
caseworker's training needs in accordance with, and ensure the | 4229 |
caseworker's compliance with, the training requirements of section | 4230 |
5153.122 of the Revised Code. Once every two years, each PCSA | 4231 |
caseworker and the caseworker's supervisor shall jointly complete | 4232 |
4233 | |
created
under section | 4234 |
4235 |
| 4236 |
children services agency or a person designated by the executive | 4237 |
director shall work with each PCSA caseworker supervisor employed | 4238 |
by the agency to determine the supervisor's training needs in | 4239 |
accordance with, and ensure the supervisor's compliance with, the | 4240 |
training
requirements of section | 4241 |
Code. Once every two years, each PCSA caseworker supervisor and | 4242 |
the executive director of the public children services agency | 4243 |
employing the supervisor, or | 4244 |
the executive director, shall jointly complete
| 4245 |
individual training needs
assessment | 4246 |
4247 |
| 4248 |
children services agency or a person designated by the executive | 4249 |
director shall collect and maintain the data from individual | 4250 |
training
needs | 4251 |
sections | 4252 |
for each PCSA caseworker and PCSA caseworker supervisor | 4253 |
4254 | |
designated person shall compile and forward the data collected | 4255 |
from the completed
| 4256 |
training center | 4257 |
the Revised Code for the
| 4258 |
located in. | 4259 |
Sec. 5153.16. (A) Except as provided in section 2151.422 of | 4260 |
the Revised
Code, in accordance with rules | 4261 |
4262 | |
Revised Code, and on behalf of children in the county whom the | 4263 |
public children services agency considers to be in need of public | 4264 |
care or protective services, the public children services agency | 4265 |
shall do all of the following: | 4266 |
(1) Make an investigation concerning any child alleged to be | 4267 |
an abused, neglected, or dependent child; | 4268 |
(2) Enter into agreements with the parent, guardian, or other | 4269 |
person having legal custody of any child, or with the department | 4270 |
of job and family services, department of mental health, | 4271 |
department of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, | 4272 |
other department, any certified organization within or outside the | 4273 |
county, or any agency or institution outside the state, having | 4274 |
legal custody of any child, with respect to the custody, care, or | 4275 |
placement of any child, or with respect to any matter, in the | 4276 |
interests of the child, provided the permanent custody of a child | 4277 |
shall not be transferred by a parent to the public children | 4278 |
services agency without the consent of the juvenile court; | 4279 |
(3) Accept custody of children committed to the public | 4280 |
children services agency by a court exercising juvenile | 4281 |
jurisdiction; | 4282 |
(4) Provide such care as the public children services agency | 4283 |
considers to be in the best interests of any child adjudicated to | 4284 |
be an abused, neglected, or dependent child the agency finds to be | 4285 |
in need of public care or service; | 4286 |
(5) Provide social services to any unmarried girl adjudicated | 4287 |
to be an abused, neglected, or dependent child who is pregnant | 4288 |
with or has been delivered of a child; | 4289 |
(6) Make available to the bureau for children with medical | 4290 |
handicaps of the department of health at its request any | 4291 |
information concerning a crippled child found to be in need of | 4292 |
treatment under sections 3701.021 to 3701.028 of the Revised Code | 4293 |
who is receiving services from the public children services | 4294 |
agency; | 4295 |
(7) Provide temporary emergency care for any child considered | 4296 |
by the public children services agency to be in need of such care, | 4297 |
without agreement or commitment; | 4298 |
(8) Find certified foster homes, within or outside the | 4299 |
county, for the care of children, including handicapped children | 4300 |
from other counties attending special schools in the county; | 4301 |
(9) Subject to the approval of the board of county | 4302 |
commissioners and the state department of job and family services, | 4303 |
establish and operate a training school or enter into an agreement | 4304 |
with any municipal corporation or other political subdivision of | 4305 |
the county respecting the operation, acquisition, or maintenance | 4306 |
of any children's home, training school, or other institution for | 4307 |
the care of children maintained by such municipal corporation or | 4308 |
political subdivision; | 4309 |
(10) Acquire and operate a county children's home, establish, | 4310 |
maintain, and operate a receiving home for the temporary care of | 4311 |
children, or procure certified foster homes for this purpose; | 4312 |
(11) Enter into an agreement with the trustees of any | 4313 |
district children's home, respecting the operation of the district | 4314 |
children's home in cooperation with the other county boards in the | 4315 |
district; | 4316 |
(12) Cooperate with, make its services available to, and act | 4317 |
as the agent of persons, courts, the department of job and family | 4318 |
services, the department of health, and other organizations within | 4319 |
and outside the state, in matters relating to the welfare of | 4320 |
children, except that the public children services agency shall | 4321 |
not be required to provide supervision of or other services | 4322 |
related to the exercise of parenting time rights granted pursuant | 4323 |
to section 3109.051 or 3109.12 of the Revised Code or | 4324 |
companionship or visitation rights granted pursuant to section | 4325 |
3109.051, 3109.11, or 3109.12 of the Revised Code unless a | 4326 |
juvenile court, pursuant to Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code, or | 4327 |
a common pleas court, pursuant to division (E)(6) of section | 4328 |
3113.31 of the Revised Code, requires the provision of supervision | 4329 |
or other services related to the exercise of the parenting time | 4330 |
rights or companionship or visitation rights; | 4331 |
(13) Make investigations at the request of any superintendent | 4332 |
of schools in the county or the principal of any school concerning | 4333 |
the application of any child adjudicated to be an abused, | 4334 |
neglected, or dependent child for release from school, where such | 4335 |
service is not provided through a school attendance department; | 4336 |
(14) Administer funds provided under Title IV-E of the | 4337 |
"Social Security Act," 94 Stat. 501 (1980), 42 U.S.C.A. 671, as | 4338 |
amended, in accordance with rules adopted under section 5101.141 | 4339 |
of the Revised Code; | 4340 |
(15) In addition to administering Title IV-E adoption | 4341 |
assistance funds, enter into agreements to make adoption | 4342 |
assistance payments under section 5153.163 of the Revised Code; | 4343 |
(16) Implement a system of safety and risk assessment, in | 4344 |
accordance with rules adopted by the director of job and family | 4345 |
services, to assist the public children services agency in | 4346 |
determining the risk of abuse or neglect to a child; | 4347 |
(17) Enter into a plan of cooperation with the board of | 4348 |
county commissioners under section 307.983 of the Revised Code and | 4349 |
comply with each fiscal agreement the board enters into under | 4350 |
section 307.98 of the Revised Code that include family services | 4351 |
duties of public children services agencies and contracts the | 4352 |
board enters into under sections 307.981 and 307.982 of the | 4353 |
Revised Code that affect the public children services agency; | 4354 |
(18) Make reasonable efforts to prevent the removal of an | 4355 |
alleged or adjudicated abused, neglected, or dependent child from | 4356 |
the child's home, eliminate the continued removal of the child | 4357 |
from the child's home, or make it possible for the child to return | 4358 |
home safely, except that reasonable efforts of that nature are not | 4359 |
required when a court has made a determination under division | 4360 |
(A)(2) of section 2151.419 of the Revised Code; | 4361 |
(19) Make reasonable efforts to place the child in a timely | 4362 |
manner in accordance with the permanency plan approved under | 4363 |
division (E) of section 2151.417 of the Revised Code and to | 4364 |
complete whatever steps are necessary to finalize the permanent | 4365 |
placement of the child; | 4366 |
(20) Administer a Title IV-A program identified under | 4367 |
division (A)(4)(c) or (f) of section 5101.80 of the Revised Code | 4368 |
that the department of job and family services provides for the | 4369 |
public children services agency to administer under the | 4370 |
department's supervision pursuant to section 5101.801 of the | 4371 |
Revised Code; | 4372 |
(21) Administer the kinship permanency incentive program | 4373 |
created under section 5101.802 of the Revised Code under the | 4374 |
supervision of the director of job and family services; | 4375 |
(22) Provide independent living services pursuant to sections | 4376 |
2151.81 to 2151.84 of the Revised Code. | 4377 |
(B) The public children services agency shall use the system | 4378 |
implemented pursuant to division | 4379 |
connection with an investigation undertaken pursuant to division | 4380 |
(F)(1) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code | 4381 |
4382 | |
4383 | |
assess both of the following: | 4384 |
(1) The ongoing safety of the child; | 4385 |
(2) The appropriateness of the intensity and duration of the | 4386 |
services provided to meet child and family needs throughout the | 4387 |
duration of a case. | 4388 |
(C) Except as provided in section 2151.422 of the Revised | 4389 |
Code, in accordance with rules of the director of job and family | 4390 |
services, and on behalf of children in the county whom the public | 4391 |
children services agency considers to be in need of public care or | 4392 |
protective services, the public children services agency may do | 4393 |
the following: | 4394 |
(1) Provide or find, with other child serving systems, | 4395 |
specialized foster care for the care of children in a specialized | 4396 |
foster home, as defined in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, | 4397 |
certified under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code; | 4398 |
(2)(a) Except as limited by divisions (C)(2)(b) and (c) of | 4399 |
this section, contract with the following for the purpose of | 4400 |
assisting the agency with its duties: | 4401 |
(i) County departments of job and family services; | 4402 |
(ii) Boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health | 4403 |
services; | 4404 |
(iii) County boards of mental retardation and developmental | 4405 |
disabilities; | 4406 |
(iv) Regional councils of political subdivisions established | 4407 |
under Chapter 167. of the Revised Code; | 4408 |
(v) Private and government providers of services; | 4409 |
(vi) Managed care organizations and prepaid health plans. | 4410 |
(b) A public children services agency contract under division | 4411 |
(C)(2)(a) of this section regarding the agency's duties under | 4412 |
section 2151.421 of the Revised Code may not provide for the | 4413 |
entity under contract with the agency to perform any service not | 4414 |
authorized by the department's rules. | 4415 |
(c) Only a county children services board appointed under | 4416 |
section 5153.03 of the Revised Code that is a public children | 4417 |
services agency may contract under division (C)(2)(a) of this | 4418 |
section. If an entity specified in division (B) or (C) of section | 4419 |
5153.02 of the Revised Code is the public children services agency | 4420 |
for a county, the board of county commissioners may enter into | 4421 |
contracts pursuant to section 307.982 of the Revised Code | 4422 |
regarding the agency's duties. | 4423 |
Sec. 5153.166. In addition to other rules specifically | 4424 |
authorized by the Revised Code, the director of job and family | 4425 |
services may adopt rules governing public children services | 4426 |
agencies' performance of their family services duties, including | 4427 |
the family services duties that public children services agencies | 4428 |
have under sections 5153.16 to 5153.19 of the Revised Code. | 4429 |
Sec. 5153.17. The public children services agency shall | 4430 |
prepare and keep written records of investigations of families, | 4431 |
children, and foster homes, and of the care, training, and | 4432 |
treatment afforded children, and shall prepare and keep such other | 4433 |
records as are required by the department of job and family | 4434 |
services. Such records shall be confidential, but, except as | 4435 |
provided by division (B) of section 3107.17 of the Revised Code, | 4436 |
shall be open to inspection by the agency, the director of job and | 4437 |
family services, the director of the county department of job and | 4438 |
family services, and by other persons, upon the written permission | 4439 |
of the executive | 4440 |
Section 2. That existing sections 109.57, 109.572, 109.60, | 4441 |
1347.08, 1717.14, 2151.011, 2151.281, 2151.353, 2151.416, | 4442 |
2151.421, 3107.014, 3107.015, 3107.016, 3107.031, 3107.032, | 4443 |
3107.17, 3109.16, 3109.17, 5101.141, 5101.29, 5101.35, 5101.72, | 4444 |
5101.99, 5103.031, 5103.033, 5103.034, 5103.035, 5103.036, | 4445 |
5103.038, 5103.039, 5103.0311, 5103.0312, 5103.0313, 5103.0315, | 4446 |
5103.07, 5104.01, 5104.11, 5104.31, 5153.01, 5153.111, 5153.122, | 4447 |
5153.16, 5153.17, 5153.60, 5153.61, 5153.62, 5153.63, 5153.64, | 4448 |
5153.65, 5153.66, 5153.67, 5153.70, 5153.71, 5153.72, 5153.73, | 4449 |
5153.74, 5153.75, 5153.76, 5153.77, and 5153.78 and sections | 4450 |
5103.037, 5153.68, and 5153.69 of the Revised Code are hereby | 4451 |
repealed. | 4452 |
Section 3. The Department of Job and Family Services shall | 4453 |
develop, implement, oversee, and evaluate, on a pilot basis, an | 4454 |
"Alternative Response" approach to reports of child abuse, | 4455 |
neglect, and dependency. The pilot program shall be implemented in | 4456 |
not more than ten counties that are selected by the Department and | 4457 |
that agree to participate in the pilot program. | 4458 |
The pilot program shall last eighteen months, not including | 4459 |
time expended in preparation for the implementation of the pilot | 4460 |
program and any post-pilot program evaluation activity. | 4461 |
The Department shall assure that the Alternative Response | 4462 |
pilot is independently evaluated with respect to outcomes for | 4463 |
children and families, costs, worker satisfaction, and any other | 4464 |
criteria the Department determines will be useful in the | 4465 |
consideration of statewide implementation of an Alternative | 4466 |
Response approach to child protection. The measure associated with | 4467 |
the eighteen-month pilot program shall, for the purposes of the | 4468 |
evaluation, be compared with those same measures in the pilot | 4469 |
counties during the eighteen-month period immediately preceding | 4470 |
the beginning of the pilot-program period. | 4471 |
The Department may adopt rules in accordance with section | 4472 |
111.15 of the Revised Code, as if they were internal management | 4473 |
rules, as necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. | 4474 |
Section 4. The General Assembly hereby respectfully requests | 4475 |
that the Supreme Court adopt rules regarding the standards, | 4476 |
qualifications, and service of guardians ad litem. | 4477 |
Section 5. Section 109.572 of the Revised Code is presented | 4478 |
in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. | 4479 |
Sub. H.B. 11 and Am. Sub. H.B. 117 of the 125th General Assembly | 4480 |
and Am. Sub. H.B. 68 of the 126th General Assembly. Section | 4481 |
2151.011 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a | 4482 |
composite of the section as amended by both Am. Sub. H.B. 11 and | 4483 |
Am. Sub. H.B. 106 of the 125th General Assembly. Section 2151.421 | 4484 |
of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the | 4485 |
section as amended by both Sub. S.B. 66 and Sub. S.B. 185 of the | 4486 |
125th General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the | 4487 |
principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised | 4488 |
Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of | 4489 |
simultaneous operation, finds that the composites are the | 4490 |
resulting version of the sections in effect prior to the effective | 4491 |
dates of the sections as presented in this act. | 4492 |