130th Ohio General Assembly
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H. B. No. 242  As Introduced
As Introduced

128th General Assembly
Regular Session
2009-2010
H. B. No. 242


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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