Category Archive for : ‘STATE BY STATE OHIO’

April 21, 2021
Susan Tebben
Colombus Underground

A bipartisan bill seeks to mandate child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention education in Ohio schools.
The bill was introduced this week, and requires “age-appropriate instruction” in child sexual abuse prevention for students in kindergarten through sixth grade. The education would include resources and available counseling for children who are sexually abused.
For grades seven through 12, sexual violence prevention education would be implemented. Education would be provided for teachers and staff as part of in-service training.
The Ohio Department of Education would be tasked with providing free

February 4, 2020
Anna Staver, Randy Ludlow
Dispatch

As the Ohio House prepares to resume hearings on a bill to allow victims of deceased Ohio State University doctor Richard Strauss to sue the university, its fate remains unclear.
However, minority Democrats and the Republican governor are asking whether it’s time to end a separate statute of limitations on filing criminal charges in sexual assault cases.
House Bill 249 would suspend Ohio’s statute of limitations for civil cases stemming from sexual assaults, but only for Strauss’ victims.
Gov. Mike DeWine is leery of the legal concept of

Ohio already tags repeat drunken drivers’ cars with bright yellow license plates, now it wants to make convicted sexual predators use fluorescent green ones.  A bill introduced Wednesday would require all habitual and child-oriented convicted sex offenders to display the easy to spot plates.  The bill is the latest in a series of Ohio measures to crack down on sex crimes.  Among them: tougher minimum sentences for rapists of children under 13; increased penalties for public indecency involving victims under 13; and mandatory tracking devices after those classified as sexually

After many towns, including most recently Algoma, Wisconsin, passed laws barring sex offenders from moving within 2,000 feet of a church, school playground, day care or walking trail, some states are trying to craft their own solutions to the problem that has no prison sentence.  New York is proposing to keep some sex offenders in civil confinement, that is, locked up beyond their prison sentences in psychiatric hospitals.  New York is joining more than a dozen states which allow targeted sex offenders to be held beyond their prison terms.  A