//**PROOF OF CONCEPT** — full quality-of-life profile for Ohio, 16 dimensions of the sex-offense registry regime. Ratings are researcher judgments from the //registrant's// perspective; each links its statute. NOT legal advice.//

====== Ohio — Registry Profile ======

**Weighted burden index 51.3/100** · rank **18 of 56** (1 = least burdensome) · 11/16 dimensions statute-verified · 1 unverified.

Legend: 🟢 favorable (less burden) · 🟠 moderate · 🔴 restrictive · ℹ️ context · ⚪ unknown. ✓ = statute-verified.

^ Dimension ^ Rating ^ Detail ^ Statute ^
| **Registration length** | 🟠 moderate | Offense-based tiers (adult offenders): Tier I 15 years / Tier II 25 years / Tier III life — **lifetime** | [[https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2950.07|2950.07(B)]] ✓ |
| **Removal / petition off** | 🔴 restrictive | Only Tier I may petition (after 10 yrs, treatment, discretionary); Tier II and Tier III have no termination path — ⚑ needs human review | [[https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2950.15|2950.15]] ✓ |
| **Individualized risk assessment** | 🔴 restrictive | Not now — offense-based tiers since 2007 (AWA); risk-based system used pre-2007 | 2950.031 |
| **In-person reporting frequency** | 🟠 moderate | Tiered in-person: every 90 days / 180 days / yearly | 2950.06 B. |
| **Registration fee** | 🟠 moderate | Yes — sheriff-set fee, capped $25/yr (most offenders) or $100/yr (Tier III); county-administered, waived below 125% poverty | [[https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-311.171|§ 311.171]] ✓ |
| **Residency restriction** | 🔴 restrictive | 1,000 ft from any school, preschool, child care, children's crisis care, or residential infant care premises; applies broadly to anyone convicted of a sexually oriented or child-victim oriented offense — **1000 ft** | [[https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2950.034|2950.034]] ✓ |
| **Employment restriction** | 🟢 favorable | None — Ohio's SOR law imposes no employment restriction (no distance-from-minors or occupational bar) on registrants | [[https://www.probationinfo.org/sor/employment/|n/a]] ✓ |
| **Presence / loitering restriction** | 🟢 favorable | None — Ohio's only spatial restriction is the 1,000-ft residency rule (2950.034); no separate statewide presence/loitering (child safety zone) statute | [[https://www.probationinfo.org/sor/residence/|2950.034]] ✓ |
| **Visitor registration trigger** | 🔴 restrictive | Within 3 days if 'temporarily domiciled' for 3 days | 2950.04 (A)(4) |
| **Internet identifiers required** | 🔴 restrictive | Required — 2950.04(C)(10) requires 'any email addresses, internet identifiers, or telephone numbers registered to or used by' the offender | [[https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2950.04|2950.04 C.]] ✓ |
| **Civil commitment** | 🟢 favorable | No civil commitment | n/a |
| **Public website exposure** | 🔴 restrictive | eSORN public internet database covers all tiers (I, II, III) with no categorical exclusion; only certain juvenile records restricted | [[https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2950.13|2950.13]] ✓ |
| **Halloween / holiday restriction** | ⚪ unknown | No statewide Halloween/holiday restriction statute located in Ch. 2950 | n/a |
| **Marked driver's license / ID** | 🟢 favorable | Driver's license / state ID is NOT branded or coded for registrants | [[https://probationinfo.org/sor/id/|n/a]] ✓ |
| **Community notification (& who pays)** | 🔴 restrictive | Active — sheriff mails written notice to neighbors within 1,000 ft plus schools, child care, and agencies for Tier III / public-registry-qualified registrants; registrant does not pay | [[https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2950.11|2950.11]] ✓ |
| **Age of consent (context)** | ℹ️ context | 16 — with close-in-age exception (13–15 y/o victim; offense is a misdemeanor if actor is less than 4 years older) | [[https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2907.04|2907.04]] ✓ |

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Source wiki page: [[ohio|Ohio]] · compare with others via [[playground:qol_index|the index]].
//Weighted index from the v1 model (weighted_score.py); weights encode NARSOL's judgment about everyday lived burden. Removal ratings and the weights need NARSOL/attorney sign-off before authoritative use.//