Ohio sex offender laws and january 2008

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Korre will be taking on a new position at the Municipal Clerk of Courts. Searches are conducted by name or geographic location; and can display a map of registered sex offenders within one mile of an address. You may also sign up to receive an email alert when a registered sex offender moves within one mile of your home.

Information provided by you regarding email and physical addresses is private, and used only for the purpose of providing timely and accurate sex offender notifications. In , Ohio enacted a sexual offender registration law. In the registration law was expanded requiring certain sex offenders who are employed within a county but residing elsewhere to register in the county where they are working.

On January 1, Senate Bill 10 modified the existing sex offender registration classifications, and also added childcare centers and pre-schools to the foot restriction imposed on registered offenders.

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Some convicted sex offenders are NOT legally required to register, and others may fail to register as required by law. Furthermore, some convicted sex offenders may move into Clermont County from other states or from other counties and fail to register with our Office.

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The information contained in the sex offender database is updated as soon as possible, and every effort is made to assure the accuracy of the information. Anyone having information concerning the whereabouts of a sex offender that conflicts with the information in the sex offender database is requested to call our Office at and report the discrepancy. On January 1, Senate Bill 10 modified the current sex offender registration requirements.

Tier I Sex Offender: An adult or juvenile classified as a Tier I sex offender has been convicted of or found delinquent by reason of a sexually oriented offense; but has not been classified as either a Tier II or Tier III sex offender. Tier I sex offenders must register, once a year for 15 years, with the Sheriff of the County in which the offender lives, works and attends school.

Whenever the registered sex offender changes residence Tier I—juvenile offenders must register for 10 years.

For each offender, delinquent child, and parents of a delinquent child, the attorney general shall send a copy of the return receipt for the offender, delinquent child, or parents to the sheriff with whom the offender or delinquent child most recently registered a residence address and, if applicable, a school, institution of higher education, or place of employment address and to the prosecutor who handled the case in which the offender or delinquent child was convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or was adjudicated a delinquent child for committing the sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense that resulted in the offender's or child's registration duty under section If a return receipt indicates that the offender, delinquent child, or parents of a delinquent child to whom the registered letter was sent does not reside or have temporary domicile at the listed address, the attorney general immediately shall provide notice of that fact to the sheriff with whom the offender or delinquent child registered that residence address.

D The attorney general shall mail to each sheriff a list of all offenders and delinquent children who have registered a residence address or a school, institution of higher education, or place of employment address with that sheriff and to whom a registered letter is sent under division A or B of this section. E An offender or delinquent child who is in a category described in division A 2 or B of this section may request as a matter of right a court hearing to contest the application to the offender or delinquent child of the new registration requirements under Chapter The offender or delinquent child may contest the manner in which the letter sent to the offender or delinquent child pursuant to division A or B of this section specifies that the new registration requirements apply to the offender or delinquent child or may contest whether those new registration requirements apply at all to the offender or delinquent child.

To request the hearing, the offender or delinquent child not later than the date that is sixty days after the offender or delinquent child received the registered letter sent by the attorney general pursuant to division A 2 of this section shall file a petition with the court specified in this division. If the offender or delinquent child resides in or is temporarily domiciled in this state and requests a hearing, the offender or delinquent child shall file the petition with, and the hearing shall be held in, the court of common pleas or, for a delinquent child, the juvenile court of the county in which the offender or delinquent child resides or temporarily is domiciled.

If the offender does not reside in and is not temporarily domiciled in this state, the offender or delinquent child shall file the petition with, and the hearing shall be held in, the court of common pleas of the county in which the offender registered a school, institution of higher education, or place of employment address, but if the offender has registered addresses of that nature in more than one county, the offender may file such a petition in the court of only one of those counties.

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If the offender or delinquent child requests a hearing by timely filing a petition with the appropriate court, the offender or delinquent child shall serve a copy of the petition on the prosecutor of the county in which the petition is filed. The prosecutor shall represent the interests of the state in the hearing. The Adam Walsh Act replaces previous sex offender classification designations such as Sexual Predator, or Sexually Oriented Offender, with Tier classification designations.

The Tier classification designations for sex offenders are determined by the criminal offense or offenses the offender was convicted of. The Adam Walsh Act was retroactive and included the re-classification of all sex offenders previously convicted as well as determining the classification of all sex offenders convicted in the future.

Visiting the site allows you to not only search for offenders by name but also by address. You can also sign up to track specific sex offenders movements by email with a simple form. Shaq Shield is a free iPhone app that provides parents with the tools and knowledge they need to protect their children from online predators.

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Features of the app include:. Glossary of Internet terminology Internet safety tips Lingo used by children online Pledges by parents and children for shared internet responsibility A Sex Offender Registry search.

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