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H. B. No. 242 As IntroducedAs Introduced
128th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2009-2010 |
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Representatives Letson, Huffman
Cosponsors:
Representatives Murray, Blessing, Derickson, Grossman, Boose, Balderson, Evans, Domenick, Gardner, Combs
A BILL
To enact section 109.942 of the Revised Code to
require the Superintendent of the Bureau of
Criminal Identification and Investigation to
establish and operate on the internet a database
that contains information for every offender who
within the prior 10 years or at any time in the
future was or is convicted of or pleaded or pleads
guilty to committing a
felony offense against a
person under eighteen
years of age.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 109.942 of the Revised Code be
enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 109.942. (A) Within ninety days after the effective
date of this section, the superintendent of the bureau of criminal
identification and investigation shall establish and operate on
the internet a database that contains information for every
offender in the state who within the ten-year period
prior to the
effective date of this section or at any time after that
date was
convicted of, is convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or pleads
guilty to committing a felony offense against a person who
was
under eighteen
years of age at the time of the commission of
the
offense. The
superintendent of the bureau shall provide on the
database, for
each offender, at least the following information:
(1) The offender's name and date of birth;
(2) The name of each felony offense that the offender
within
the ten-year period prior to the effective date of this section or
at any time after that date was convicted of, is convicted of,
pleaded guilty to, or pleads guilty to committing against a person
who was under eighteen years of age at
the time of the commission
of the offense, the Revised Code
section of which the offense is
a violation, the gender of each
victim of the offense if those
facts are known, the range of the
possible prison terms or terms
of imprisonment that could have been
imposed for the offense, the
actual prison term or term of
imprisonment imposed for the
offense, the county in which the
offense was committed, the date
on which the inmate began serving
the prison term or term of
imprisonment imposed for the offense,
and either the date on
which the inmate will be eligible for
parole relative to the
offense if the prison term or term of
imprisonment is an
indefinite term or life term or the date on
which the term ends
or ended if the prison term is a definite
term or the term of
imprisonment has ended.
(B)(1) The superintendent of the bureau shall update the
database required under division (A) of this section every
twenty-four hours to ensure that the information it contains is
accurate and current.
(2) The database required under division (A) of this section
is a public record open for inspection under section 149.43 of the
Revised Code. The superintendent shall make the
database
searchable by the offender's name and by the county in which
the
offense was committed.
(3) No information included on the database required under
division (A) of this section shall identify or enable the
identification of any victim of any offense committed by an
offender.
(4) No information included on the database shall include an
offender's social security number or the name of any school or
institution of higher education attended by any offender.
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