Sub.
S.B. 10
127th General Assembly
(H. Criminal Justice)
The House Committee adopted amendments to do the following:
Limit the definition of "public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant" to include only those juveniles who are serious youthful offenders and otherwise satisfy the definition.
Require Ohio resident offenders and public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants to register in the county of employment if the offender or public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant has been employed in that county for more than 3 (instead of current law's 14) days or for an aggregate period of 14 (instead of current law's 30) days in that calendar year and requires such offenders and public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants who are not Ohio residents to register an employment address if the offender or registrant has been employed at any location in Ohio within those time periods.
Require offenders and public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants to register in another state upon being employed in that other state for more than 3 (instead of 14) days or for an aggregate period of 14 (instead of 30) or more days in that calendar year.
Require public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants to register immediately upon coming into a county in which the registrant attends a school or institution of higher education.
Expand the required content of a SORN Law registration form to additionally require the form to include the offender's or delinquent child's date of birth; any alternate Social Security numbers or dates of birth used by the offender or delinquent child; the name of a public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant's school, institution of higher education, or place of employment; the license plate numbers of all vehicles (instead of motor vehicles) available to the offender or delinquent child and a description of where each vehicle is habitually kept; any other employment information; copies of travel and immigration documents; a description of professional licenses, permits, or registrations; and any email addresses, internet identifiers, or telephone numbers registered to or used by the offender or delinquent child.
Require public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants to comply with the change of address provisions in the same manner as an offender.
Require an offender or public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant to provide written notice, within three days, of any change in vehicle information, email addresses, internet identifiers, or telephone numbers and requires the sheriff who receives this information to forward it to BCII.
Permit the Attorney General to inspect sealed records for the purposes of determining an offender's or juvenile offender registrant's tier classification.
Remove provisions pertaining to reclassification of offenders and public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants for reasons other than error in initial classification.
Provide that an
offender or delinquent child who has registered under the existing SORN Law must
initially register under the bill's amended SORN Law within the earlier of (1)
six months after the person receives a letter from the Attorney General
regarding the person's new tier classification or (2) the earlier of the date
on which the person would be required to verify a previously registered address
or register a new address under the SORN Law as it exists on and after January
1, 2008 (instead of the earlier of the date on which the person would be
required to verify or register under the SORN Law as it exists currently).
Specify that the SORN Law's community notification provisions do not apply to an offender or delinquent child if that person would not be subject to the version of the community notification provisions that exists immediately prior to the effective date of these new notification provisions.
Expand the community notification provisions to also require the sheriff to provide notification of a public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant's school, institution of higher education, or place of employment address.
Provide that the State Registry of Sex Offenders and Child-Victim Offenders contain a citation for, the name of, and the text (at the time of commission) of all of a person's sexually oriented offenses or child-victim oriented offenses instead of only the most recent sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense.
Require the State Registry of Sex Offenders and Child-Victim Offenders to indicate whether the person has any outstanding arrest warrants and whether the person is in compliance with SORN Law duties.
Prohibit a victim's identity from appearing on the Internet Sex Offender and Child-Victim Offender Database.
Include on the Internet Database with respect to each offender and public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant a citation for, the name of, and the text (at the time of commission) of all sexually oriented offenses or child-victim oriented offenses that resulted in a registration duty (instead of only the name, citation, and text of the most recent offense); community supervision status; a public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant's registered residence, school, and employment address; the license plate number of all owned, registered, or accessible vehicles (instead of motor vehicles) and a description of where kept; any outstanding arrest warrants; and SORN Law compliance status.
Replace a requirement that the Internet Database and the State Registry contain a description of the characteristics of tier I, II, and III sex offenders/child-victim offenders with a requirement that both databases contain a chart describing which sexually oriented offenses and child-victim oriented offenses are included in the definitions of tier I, II, and III sex offenders/child-victim offenders.
Include the license plate number of each vehicle (instead of motor vehicle) of an offender or delinquent child on the law enforcement internet database.
Provide that if on or after the effective date of the bill, the U.S. Attorney General adopts any regulation, guideline, or standard that interprets or applies the Adam Walsh Act to require additional sex offender registration and notification than otherwise required by the SORN Law, as amended by the bill, or notifies Ohio's AG that the bill is not in substantial compliance with the Adam Walsh Act, the AG is required to adopt rules to require additional sex offender registration or notification so that Ohio's SORN Law requirements are consistent with, and not less stringent than, the Adam Walsh Act.
Expand the information that DRC and DYS must provide to BCII before the release of an offender or juvenile offender registrant who was in custody for committing a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense to also require DRC and DYS to provide BCII with the terms and conditions of release.
Remove provisions pertaining to reclassification of offenders and public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants for reasons other than error in initial classification.
Remove language regarding federal law requirements.
Remove retroactivity provisions that were applicable to juvenile offender registrants who were not public-registry qualified juvenile offender registrants.
Prohibit a person who is or has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense from living within 1,000 feet of preschool or child day-care center premises in the same manner as such a person is prohibited under current law from living within 1,000 feet of school premises.
Permit a person who is subject to the SORN Law to appear before a sheriff's designee for registration or verification.
Appropriate $250,000 in fiscal year 2008 and fiscal year 2009 to the Attorney General for implementation of the bill's provisions.
Modifies an element of the bill's new gross sexual imposition prohibition so that the prohibited conduct must be "knowingly" instead of "intentionally."
Make technical and conforming changes.
S0010-127.doc/ss 06/27/07