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H. B. No. 607 As IntroducedAs Introduced
127th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2007-2008 |
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Representative Stewart, J.
A BILL
To amend sections 2950.02, 2950.034, and 2950.04 of
the Revised
Code to specify that the restriction
against
offenders convicted of a sexually
oriented offense
or child-victim oriented offense
living near
school, preschool, or child day-care
premises
applies regardless of when the offense
was
committed or the offender began living in the
residence and that a registration requirement for
children adjudicated delinquent for a sexually
oriented offense and classified a juvenile
offender registrant applies regardless of when the
offense was committed.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 2950.02, 2950.034, and 2950.04 of
the Revised
Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2950.02. (A) The general assembly
hereby determines
and
declares that it recognizes and finds all of the
following:
(1) If the public is provided adequate notice and
information
about
offenders
and delinquent children who
commit
sexually
oriented offenses or who commit child-victim oriented offenses,
members of the public
and
communities
can
develop constructive
plans to prepare themselves
and their
children for the
offender's
or
delinquent child's
release from
imprisonment,
a prison term, or
other
confinement
or detention.
This allows
members of the public
and
communities to meet with
members of law
enforcement agencies
to prepare and obtain
information about
the
rights and
responsibilities of the public
and the communities and
to
provide
education and counseling to
their children.
(2) Sex offenders and child-victim
offenders pose a
risk of
engaging in further
sexually abusive behavior even after being
released
from
imprisonment, a prison term, or other confinement
or
detention,
and
protection of
members of the public from sex
offenders and
child-victim offenders is a
paramount governmental
interest.
(3) The penal,
juvenile, and mental health components of
the
justice system of
this state are largely hidden from public view,
and a lack of information
from
any component may result in
the
failure of
the system to satisfy
this paramount
governmental
interest of public safety described in division
(A)(2) of this
section.
(4) Overly restrictive confidentiality and liability laws
governing
the release of information about sex
offenders and
child-victim offenders have
reduced the willingness to release
information that could be
appropriately released under the public
disclosure laws and have
increased risks of public safety.
(5) A person who is found to be a sex offender or a
child-victim offender has a reduced
expectation of privacy
because
of the public's interest in public
safety and in the
effective
operation of
government.
(6) The release of information about sex offenders and
child-victim offenders to
public agencies and the general public
will further the
governmental interests of public safety and
public scrutiny
of the
criminal,
juvenile, and mental health
systems as
long as the
information released
is rationally related
to the furtherance of
those goals.
(B) The general assembly hereby
declares that, in providing
in this chapter for registration regarding
offenders
and certain
delinquent
children who
have
committed sexually oriented offenses
or who
have committed child-victim oriented offenses, for a
limited restriction on the locales at which offenders who have
committed any such offenses may reside, and for
community
notification regarding
tier
III sex
offenders/child-victim
offenders who are criminal
offenders,
public registry-qualified
juvenile offender
registrants, and
certain other juvenile
offender registrants who
are about to be
or have been released
from
imprisonment, a
prison
term, or other
confinement
or
detention and
who
will live
in
or
near
a
particular neighborhood
or who
otherwise will live in
or
near a
particular
neighborhood,
it is
the general assembly's
intent to
protect the safety and
general
welfare of the people of
this
state. The general assembly
further
declares that it is the
policy
of this state to require
the
exchange in
accordance with
this
chapter of relevant
information
about sex offenders and
child-victim offenders
among public
agencies and
officials and, to
authorize the release
in accordance
with this chapter of
necessary
and relevant
information about
sex
offenders and
child-victim offenders to
members of the
general
public as a
means of
assuring
public
protection, and to provide a limited residency restriction and
other safeguards under this chapter
from the potential acts of
sex offenders and child-victim
offenders, and that
the
exchange
or
release of that
information
is, and the residency
restriction and other safeguards, are not punitive.
Sec. 2950.034. (A) No Regardless of whether the person
committed the offense prior to, on, or after the effective date of
this amendment, no person who has been convicted
of, is
convicted
of, has pleaded guilty to, or pleads guilty to
a
sexually
oriented offense or a child-victim
oriented offense
shall
establish do any of the following:
(1) Establish a residence or occupy
residential
premises
within
one
thousand feet of any school
premises or any
preschool or child
day-care center premises;
(2) Regardless of whether the occupancy began prior to, on,
or after the effective date of this amendment, occupy residential
premises within one thousand feet of any school premises or any
preschool or child day-care center premises.
(B) If a person to whom division (A) of this section applies
violates
division (A) of this section by establishing a residence
or
occupying residential premises within
one thousand feet of any
school premises or any preschool or child day-care center
premises, an
owner or lessee of real property that is
located
within one
thousand feet of those school premises or preschool or
child
day-care center premises, or the
prosecuting attorney,
village
solicitor, city or township director
of law, similar
chief legal
officer of a municipal corporation or
township, or
official
designated as a prosecutor in a municipal
corporation
that has
jurisdiction over the place at which the
person
establishes the
residence or occupies the residential
premises
in question, has a
cause of action for injunctive relief
against
the person. The
plaintiff
shall not be required to
prove
irreparable harm in
order to obtain
the relief.
(C) As used in this section:
(1) "Child day-care center" has the same meaning as in
section 5104.01 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Preschool" means any public or private institution or
center that provides early childhood instructional or educational
services to children who are at least three years of age but less
than six years of age and who are not enrolled in or are not
eligible to be enrolled in kindergarten, whether or not those
services are provided in a child day-care setting. "Preschool"
does not include any place that is the permanent residence of the
person who is providing the early childhood instructional or
educational services to the children described in this division.
(3) "Preschool or child day-care center premises" means all
of the following:
(a) Any building in which any preschool or child day-care
center activities are conducted if the building has signage that
indicates that the building houses a preschool or child day-care
center, is clearly visible and discernable without obstruction,
and meets any local zoning ordinances which may apply;
(b) The parcel of real property on which a preschool or child
day-care center is situated if the parcel of real property has
signage that indicates that a preschool or child day-care center
is situated on the parcel, is clearly visible and discernable
without obstruction, and meets any local zoning ordinances which
may apply;
(c) Any grounds, play areas, and other facilities of a
preschool or child day-care center that are regularly used by the
children served by the preschool or child day-care center if the
grounds, play areas, or other facilities have signage that
indicates that they are regularly used by children served by the
preschool or child day-care center, is clearly visible and
discernable without obstruction, and meets any local zoning
ordinances which may apply.
Sec. 2950.04. (A)(1)(a)
Immediately after a sentencing
hearing is held on or after January
1, 2008, for an offender who
is convicted of or pleads guilty to a
sexually oriented offense
and is sentenced to a prison term, a
term of imprisonment, or any
other type of confinement and before
the offender is transferred
to the custody of the department of
rehabilitation and correction
or to the official in charge of the
jail, workhouse, state
correctional institution, or other
institution where the offender
will be confined, the offender
shall register personally with the
sheriff, or the sheriff's
designee, of the county in which
the
offender was convicted of or
pleaded guilty to the sexually
oriented offense.
(b) Immediately after a dispositional hearing is held on or
after January 1, 2008, for a child who is adjudicated a delinquent
child for committing a sexually oriented offense, is classified a
juvenile offender registrant based on that adjudication, and is
committed to the custody of the department of youth services or to
a secure facility that is not operated by the department and
before the child is transferred to the custody of the department
of youth services or the secure facility to which the delinquent
child is committed, the delinquent child shall register personally
with the sheriff, or the sheriff's designee, of the county in
which the delinquent child was
classified a juvenile offender
registrant based on that sexually
oriented offense.
(c) A law enforcement officer shall be present at the
sentencing hearing or dispositional hearing described in division
(A)(1)(a) or (b) of this section to immediately transport the
offender or delinquent child who is the subject of the hearing to
the sheriff, or the sheriff's designee, of the county in which the
offender or delinquent
child is convicted, pleads guilty, or is
adjudicated a delinquent
child.
(d) After an offender who has registered pursuant to division
(A)(1)(a) of this section is released from a prison term, a term
of imprisonment, or any other type of confinement, the offender
shall register as provided in division (A)(2) of this section.
After a delinquent child who has registered pursuant to division
(A)(1)(b) of this section is released from the custody of the
department of youth services or from a secure facility that is not
operated by the department, the delinquent child shall register as
provided in division (A)(3) of this section.
(2) Regardless of when the sexually oriented offense was
committed, each
offender
who is convicted of,
pleads guilty to,
has been
convicted of,
or has pleaded guilty to a
sexually
oriented offense
shall comply with the following registration
requirements described in divisions (A)(2)(a), (b), (c), (d), and
(e) of this section:
(a) The offender shall
register
personally with
the sheriff,
or the sheriff's designee,
of the
county
within
three days
of
the offender's coming into
a county in which the
offender
resides
or temporarily is domiciled
for more than three
days.
(b) The offender shall register personally with the sheriff,
or the sheriff's designee,
of the county immediately upon coming
into a county in which the
offender attends a school or
institution of higher education on a
full-time or part-time basis
regardless of whether the offender
resides or has a temporary
domicile in this state or another
state.
(c) The offender shall register personally with the sheriff,
or the sheriff's designee,
of the county in which the offender is
employed if the offender
resides or has a temporary domicile in
this state and has been
employed in that county for more than
three days or for an
aggregate period of fourteen
or more days
in that calendar year.
(d) The offender shall register personally with the sheriff,
or the sheriff's designee,
of the county in which the offender
then is employed if the
offender does not reside or have a
temporary domicile in this
state and has been employed at any
location or locations in this
state more than three days
or for
an aggregate period of
fourteen
or more days in
that calendar
year.
(e) The offender shall register with the sheriff, or the
sheriff's designee, or other
appropriate person of the other
state immediately upon entering
into any state other than this
state in which the offender attends
a school or institution of
higher education on a full-time or
part-time basis or upon being
employed in any state other than
this state for more than
three
days or for an aggregate period
of fourteen
or more days in that
calendar year regardless of whether
the
offender resides or has
a temporary domicile in this state,
the
other state, or a
different state.
(3)(a)
Each Regardless of when the sexually oriented offense
was committed, each child who is adjudicated a delinquent
child
for
committing
a sexually oriented offense and who is
classified a
juvenile offender
registrant
based on that
adjudication shall
register
personally with the sheriff, or the
sheriff's designee,
of the
county within three
days of the
delinquent child's coming
into a county in which the
delinquent
child resides or temporarily
is domiciled for more than
three
days.
(b) In addition to the registration duty imposed under
division (A)(3)(a) of this section, each public
registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant shall comply with
the following additional registration requirements:
(i) The public registry-qualified juvenile offender
registrant shall register personally with the sheriff, or the
sheriff's designee, of the
county immediately upon coming into a
county in which the
registrant attends a school or institution of
higher education on
a full-time or part-time basis regardless of
whether the
registrant resides or has a temporary domicile in
this state or
another state.
(ii) The public registry-qualified juvenile offender
registrant shall register personally with the sheriff, or the
sheriff's designee, of the
county in which the registrant is
employed if the registrant
resides or has a temporary domicile in
this state and has been
employed in that county for more than
three days or for an
aggregate period of fourteen or more days in
that calendar year.
(iii) The public registry-qualified juvenile offender
registrant shall register personally with the sheriff, or the
sheriff's designee, of the
county in which the registrant then is
employed if the registrant
does not reside or have a temporary
domicile in this state and has
been employed at any location or
locations in this state more than
three days or for an aggregate
period of fourteen or more days in
that calendar year.
(iv) The public registry-qualified juvenile offender
registrant shall register with the sheriff, or the sheriff's
designee, or other appropriate
person of the other state
immediately upon entering into any state
other than this state in
which the registrant attends a school or
institution of higher
education on a full-time or part-time basis
or upon being
employed in any state other than this state for more
than three
days or for an aggregate period of fourteen or more
days in that
calendar year regardless of whether the registrant
resides or has
a temporary domicile in this state, the other
state, or a
different state.
(c) If
the delinquent
child is committed for the
sexually
oriented offense to the department of
youth services or to a
secure facility that is not operated by the
department, this duty
begins when the delinquent child
is
discharged or released in any
manner from
custody in a
department
of youth services secure
facility or from the secure
facility that
is not operated
by the
department if pursuant
to the discharge or
release the
delinquent
child is not committed
to any other secure
facility of
the
department or any other secure
facility.
(4)
Regardless of when the sexually oriented offense was
committed,
each person who is convicted, pleads
guilty, or is
adjudicated a delinquent child in a court in another state, in a
federal court,
military court, or
Indian tribal court, or in a
court in any nation other than the United States for committing a
sexually oriented offense shall comply with the following
registration
requirements if, at the time the
offender
or
delinquent child
moves to and
resides in this state or
temporarily
is domiciled in
this state
for more than three days, the offender
or public
registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant enters
this
state
to attend a school or institution of higher
education,
or the
offender or public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant
is employed in this state for more than the
specified period of
time,
the offender
or delinquent
child has a
duty to register as a
sex
offender or child-victim offender under
the law of
that other
jurisdiction as a result of
the conviction,
guilty
plea,
or
adjudication:
(a) Each offender and delinquent child shall register
personally with the sheriff, or the sheriff's designee, of the
county within three days of the
offender's or delinquent child's
coming into the county in which
the offender or delinquent child
resides or temporarily is
domiciled for more than three days.
(b) Each offender or public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant shall register personally with the sheriff, or
the sheriff's designee,
of
the county immediately upon coming
into a county in which the
offender or public registry-qualified
juvenile offender registrant
attends a school or institution of
higher education on a
full-time or part-time basis regardless of
whether the offender or
public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant
resides or
has a temporary domicile in this
state or another
state.
(c) Each offender or public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant shall register personally with the sheriff, or
the sheriff's designee,
of the county in which the offender or
public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant is employed
if the offender
resides or has a temporary domicile in this state
and has been
employed in that county for more than three days or
for an
aggregate period of fourteen days or more in that calendar
year.
(d) Each offender or public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant shall register personally with the sheriff, or
the sheriff's designee,
of the county in which the offender or
public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant then is
employed if the
offender or public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant does not reside or have a temporary domicile
in this
state and has been employed at any location or
locations
in
this state for more than three days or for an
aggregate
period
of fourteen or more days in that calendar year.
(5) An offender or a delinquent child who is a public
registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant is not required to
register under division (A)(2), (3), or (4) of this section if a
court issues an order terminating the offender's or delinquent
child's duty to comply with sections 2950.04, 2950.041, 2950.05,
and 2950.06 of the Revised Code pursuant to section 2950.15 of the
Revised Code. A delinquent child who is a juvenile offender
registrant but is not a public registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant is not required to register under any of those
divisions if a juvenile court issues an order declassifying the
delinquent child as a juvenile offender registrant pursuant to
section 2152.84 or 2152.85 of the Revised Code.
(B) An offender
or delinquent child who is required by
division (A) of this section to register in this state personally
shall obtain
from the sheriff or from a designee of the sheriff a
registration
form that conforms to division (C) of this section,
shall complete
and sign the form, and shall return the completed
form together
with the offender's
or delinquent child's
photograph, copies of travel and immigration documents, and any
other required material to the
sheriff or the designee.
The
sheriff or designee shall sign the
form and indicate on the
form
the date on which it is so returned.
The registration
required
under this division is complete when the
offender
or
delinquent
child returns the form, containing the
requisite
information,
photograph, other required material, signatures, and
date, to the
sheriff or designee.
(C) The registration form to be used under divisions (A) and
(B) of this section shall include or contain all of
the following
for the offender or delinquent child who is
registering:
(1) The offender's or delinquent child's name and any aliases
used by the offender or delinquent child;
(2) The offender's or delinquent child's social security
number and date of birth,
including any alternate social security
numbers or dates of birth
that the offender or delinquent child
has used or uses;
(3) Regarding an offender or delinquent child who is
registering under a duty imposed under division (A)(1) of this
section, a statement that the offender is serving a prison term,
term of imprisonment, or any other type of confinement or a
statement that the delinquent child is in the custody of the
department of youth services or is confined in a secure facility
that is not operated by the department;
(4) Regarding an offender or delinquent child who is
registering under a duty imposed under division (A)(2), (3),
or
(4) of this section as a result of the offender or delinquent
child residing in this state or temporarily being domiciled in
this state for more than three days, the current residence
address of
the offender
or delinquent child who is registering,
the name and
address of the offender's
or delinquent child's
employer if the
offender
or delinquent child is employed at the
time of
registration or if the offender
or delinquent child knows
at the
time of registration that the offender
or delinquent child
will be
commencing employment with that employer subsequent to
registration, any other employment
information, such as the
general area where the offender or
delinquent child is employed,
if the offender or delinquent child
is employed in many
locations, and the name and address of the offender's or public
registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant's school or
institution of higher education if the offender or public
registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant attends one at the
time of registration or if the offender or public
registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant knows at the time
of
registration that the offender or public registry-qualified
juvenile offender registrant will be commencing attendance at
that school or institution subsequent to registration;
(5) Regarding an offender or public registry-qualified
juvenile offender registrant who is registering under a duty
imposed under division (A)(2), (3), or (4) of this
section as
a
result of the offender or public registry-qualified
juvenile
offender registrant attending a school or
institution of
higher
education in this state on a full-time or
part-time basis
or
being employed in this state or in a
particular county in this
state, whichever is applicable, for
more than three days
or for
an aggregate of
fourteen or more days in any
calendar year, the
name
and current
address of the school,
institution of higher
education, or place
of employment of the
offender or public
registry-qualified
juvenile offender
registrant who is
registering,
including
any other employment information, such
as the general
area where
the offender or public
registry-qualified juvenile
offender registrant is employed, if
the
offender or public
registry-qualified juvenile offender
registrant is
employed in
many locations;
(6) The identification license plate
number
of each vehicle
the offender
or delinquent child owns,
of each
vehicle
registered in the offender's
or
delinquent
child's name, of each
vehicle the offender or delinquent
child
operates as a part of
employment, and of each other vehicle that
is regularly available
to be operated by the offender
or
delinquent child;
a
description of where each vehicle is
habitually parked, stored,
docked, or otherwise kept; and, if
required by the bureau of
criminal
identification and
investigation, a photograph of each
of those
vehicles;
(7) If the offender or delinquent child has a driver's or
commercial driver's license or permit issued by this state or any
other state or a state identification
card issued under section
4507.50 or 4507.51 of the Revised Code or a comparable
identification card issued by another state,
the driver's license
number, commercial driver's license number,
or state
identification card number;
(8) If the offender or delinquent child was convicted of,
pleaded guilty to, or was adjudicated a delinquent child for
committing the sexually oriented offense resulting in the
registration duty in a court in another state, in a federal court,
military court, or Indian tribal court, or in a court in any
nation other than the United States, a DNA specimen, as defined in
section 109.573 of the Revised Code, from the offender or
delinquent child, a citation for, and the name of, the sexually
oriented offense resulting in the registration duty, and a
certified copy of a document that describes the text of that
sexually oriented offense;
(9) A description of each
professional and occupational
license, permit, or registration,
including those licenses,
permits, and registrations issued under
Title XLVII of the
Revised Code, held by the offender or
delinquent child;
(10) Any email addresses, internet identifiers, or telephone
numbers registered to or used by the offender or delinquent child;
(11) Any other information required by the bureau of criminal
identification and investigation.
(D) After an offender
or delinquent child registers with a
sheriff, or the sheriff's designee, pursuant to this section, the
sheriff, or the sheriff's designee, shall forward the
signed,
written registration form, photograph, and other
material to
the
bureau of
criminal identification and
investigation in
accordance with the
forwarding procedures adopted
pursuant to
section 2950.13 of the
Revised Code. If an offender
registers a
school, institution of higher education, or place of
employment
address, or provides a school or institution of higher
education
address under division (C)(4) of this section, the
sheriff
also
shall provide notice to the law enforcement agency
with
jurisdiction over the premises of the school, institution of
higher education, or place of employment of the offender's name
and that the offender has registered that address as a place at
which the offender attends school or an institution of higher
education or at which the offender is employed. The bureau shall
include the information and
materials forwarded to it under this
division in the state
registry of sex offenders and child-victim
offenders established and maintained under section
2950.13 of the
Revised Code.
(E) No person who is required to register pursuant to
divisions (A) and (B) of this section, and no person who is
required to send a notice of intent to reside pursuant to division
(G) of this section, shall fail to register or send the notice of
intent as
required in accordance with those divisions or that
division.
(F) An offender
or delinquent child who is required to
register pursuant to divisions (A) and (B) of this section shall
register pursuant to this section for the period of time specified
in section 2950.07 of the Revised Code, with the duty commencing
on the date specified in division (A) of that section.
(G) If an offender or delinquent child who is required by
division (A) of this section to register is a tier III sex
offender/child-victim offender, the
offender or delinquent child
also shall send
the
sheriff, or the
sheriff's designee, of the
county in which the offender or
delinquent
child
intends to
reside
written notice of the
offender's or
delinquent
child's
intent to
reside in the county.
The offender or
delinquent
child
shall send
the notice of intent
to reside at
least twenty
days
prior to the
date the offender or
delinquent
child begins to
reside in the
county. The notice of
intent to
reside shall
contain
the following
information:
(1) The offender's or delinquent child's name;
(2) The address or addresses at which the offender or
delinquent child intends to reside;
(3) The sexually oriented offense of which the offender was
convicted, to which the offender pleaded guilty, or for which the
child was adjudicated a delinquent child.
(H) If, immediately prior to January 1, 2008,
an offender or
delinquent child who was convicted of, pleaded
guilty to, or was
adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a
sexually oriented
offense or a child-victim oriented offense as
those terms were
defined in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code
prior to January
1, 2008, was required by division (A) of this
section or section
2950.041 of the Revised Code to register and
if, on or after
January 1, 2008, that offense is a sexually oriented offense as
that term is defined in
section 2950.01 of the Revised Code on
and after January 1, 2008,
the duty to register that is imposed
pursuant to
this section on and after January 1, 2008, shall be
considered,
for purposes of section 2950.07 of the Revised Code
and for all
other purposes, to be a continuation of the duty
imposed upon the
offender or delinquent child prior to January 1,
2008, under this section or section 2950.041 of the Revised Code.
Section 2. That existing sections 2950.02, 2950.034, and
2950.04 of the
Revised Code are hereby repealed.
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