Bill Sponsors: OH SB143 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly
Bill Title: To permit the Attorney General to authorize the release of information relating to certain arrests and delinquent child adjudications pursuant to a request for a criminal records check; to regulate the confidentiality of personal information related to community service block grants; to clarify the authority of boards of county commissioners to establish a community alternative sentencing center; to authorize a municipal corporation to establish a community alternative sentencing center; to modify the procedure for sentencing and admitting an eligible offender to a community alternative sentencing center; to clarify that an eligible offender must successfully complete any term in a center as a condition of a community residential sanction; to include the best interests of the person as a reason for which an alleged or adjudicated delinquent child who is at least 18 but younger than 21 may be held in an adult detention facility; to modify the waiting period for making a motion or application for the sealing of a juvenile court record of a person who is 18 years of age or older; to reaffirm that BCII is a public office or agency for purposes of notification of a delinquency record-sealing order; to specify that most identifying information that relates to the admission and confinement in an adult detention facility of a person under 21 generally is confidential; to clarify a court's authority to commit a delinquent child to the Department of Youth Services for a violation of supervised release; to authorize a court to order restitution if a person convicted of driving under suspension or driving under financial-responsibility-law suspension or cancellation fails to provide proof of financial responsibility; to extend the existence of the Ex-offender Reentry Coalition until December 31, 2019; to authorize a person charged with multiple offenses in connection with the same act to apply for the sealing of records pertaining to an acquitted charge; to eliminate the requirement that notice of a sealing order be sent by certified mail; to modify the requirements regarding testing for HIV of persons charged with specified sex offense; to increase the sentence of imprisonment that disqualifies an inmate from participating in the prison nursery program; to remove the cap of 40 hours per month and give a court discretion in setting the amount of credit for community service ordered for failure to pay a criminal court cost judgment; to authorize a court that receives or is forwarded a petition for a certificate of qualification for employment to direct the clerk of court to process and record all required notices; to include persons convicted twice of the same misdemeanor as eligible offenders for purposes of sealing records of the convictions; to provide a qualified immunity in specified circumstances to a government official who mistakenly releases information from a sealed or expunged record; to clarify the application of the Conviction Record Sealing Law to individual convictions and bail forfeitures; to preclude a court from disapproving transitional control of a prisoner who is serving a sentence of more than two years; to authorize an additional prison term for the commission of a felony while on transitional control; and to eliminate the warning notice that motor vehicle registration may be blocked for failure to appear in court or pay a fine.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 15-3)
Status: (Passed) 2014-09-19 - Effective Date [SB143 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 15-3)
Status: (Passed) 2014-09-19 - Effective Date [SB143 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]
