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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5147 | Convict Labor › Section 5147.29 | Collection and Disbursal of Prisoner's Earnings From Work-Release Program.

Effective:
June 19, 1978
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 398 - 112th General Assembly
(A) A prisoner participating in a work-release program shall surrender his earnings, less standard payroll deductions required by law, to a person designated by the court which has established the work-release program.
(B) The person designated by the court to collect the earnings of the prisoner shall maintain complete and accurate records as to all prisoners employed in a work-release program with respect to all moneys received and disbursed. Each prisoner shall be furnished a written statement of his account at least every sixty days.
(C) The earnings of the prisoner participating in a work- release program shall be disbursed in the following order:
(1) Reimbursement of the county or city for the direct costs of administering the program and the cost of boarding the prisoner in accordance with division (D) of this section;
(2) Support of the prisoner's dependents as ordered by the sentencing judge;
(3) Necessary travel expenses to and from work and other expenses incidental to employment;
(4) Payment of fines, court costs, and debts acknowledged by the prisoner in writing subsequent to his sentencing or which have resulted in garnishment or other attachment of personal earnings;
(5) The balance to the prisoner upon discharge from the sentence.
(D) The court may establish rules to determine the amount of the payments that are required to be made under division (C) (1) of this section from a prisoner's earnings to reimburse the county or city for the costs of boarding the prisoner while on the work-release program. The rules shall require the payment for each day of boarding to be based upon a uniform schedule based upon the average weekly earnings of the prisoner and upon the number of persons actually dependent upon the prisoner for their support. The payment may be less than, but shall not exceed, the actual cost of boarding the prisoner for a day.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.01 | Adult Parole Authority Definitions.

Effective:
September 30, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 86 - 129th General Assembly
As used in Chapter 5149. of the Revised Code:
(A) "Authority" means the adult parole authority created by section 5149.02 of the Revised Code.
(B) "State correctional institution," "pardon," "commutation," "reprieve," "parole," "head of a state correctional institution," "convict," "prisoner," "parolee," "final release," and "parole violator" have the same meanings as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code.
(C) "Full board hearing" means a parole board hearing conducted by a majority of parole board members as described in section 5149.101 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.02 | Adult Parole Authority.

Effective:
March 31, 2003
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 510 - 124th General Assembly
There is hereby created in the division of parole and community services of the department of rehabilitation and correction at bureau level an adult parole authority. The adult parole authority consists of its chief, a field services section, and a parole board. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall appoint the chief of the adult parole authority, one or more superintendents of the field services section, and the chairperson of the parole board, all of whom shall serve at the pleasure of the director and shall be in the unclassified civil service.
The authority is a regular administrative unit of the department of rehabilitation and correction and shall operate under rules adopted by the director. The chief of the division of parole and community services may adopt supplemental rules governing operation of the authority, assigning specific powers and duties to the chief of the authority, and assigning specific functions to sections within the authority.
No person shall be appointed as chief of the adult parole authority who is not qualified by education or experience in correctional work, including law enforcement, probation, or parole, in law, in social work, or in a combination of the three categories.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.031 | Use of Private Vehicle by Parole Officer on Duty.

Effective:
March 30, 2007
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 285 - 126th General Assembly
No parole officer employed by the adult parole authority shall be required while engaged in the course of the parole officer's employment or official responsibilities for the adult parole authority to use the parole officer's privately owned motor vehicle to transport any offender, an offender's relatives or associates, or any urine sample.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.04 | Field Services Section.

Effective:
March 31, 2003
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 510 - 124th General Assembly
(A) Persons paroled, conditionally pardoned, or released to community supervision shall be under jurisdiction of the adult parole authority and shall be supervised by the field services section through its staff of parole and field officers in such manner as to insure as nearly as possible the offender's rehabilitation while at the same time providing maximum protection to the general public. All state and local officials shall furnish such information to officers of the section as they may request in the performance of their duties.
(B) The superintendent, or superintendents, of the field services section shall be a person, or persons, especially qualified by training and experience in the field of corrections. The superintendent, or superintendents, shall supervise the work of the section and shall formulate and execute an effective program of offender supervision. The superintendent, or superintendents, shall collect and preserve any records and statistics with respect to offenders that are required by the chief of the authority. The section also shall include other personnel who are necessary for the performance of the section's duties.
No person shall be appointed as a superintendent who is not qualified by education or experience in correctional work including law enforcement, probation, or parole work, in law, in social work, or in a combination of the three categories.
(C) The superintendent, or superintendents, of the field services section, with the approval of the chief of the authority, may establish district offices for the section and may assign necessary parole and field officers and clerical staff to the district offices.
(D) The field services section in the exercise of its supervision over offenders and persons conditionally pardoned shall carry out all lawful orders, terms, and conditions prescribed by the authority, the chief of the division of parole and community services, or the governor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.05 | Training Requirements for Permission to Carry Firearm.

Effective:
March 31, 2003
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 510 - 124th General Assembly
The chief of the adult parole authority may grant an employee permission to carry a firearm in the discharge of the employee's official duties if the employee has successfully completed a basic firearm training program that is approved by the executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission. In order to continue to carry a firearm in the discharge of the employee's official duties, the employee annually shall successfully complete a firearms requalification program in accordance with section 109.801 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.06 | Duties of Field Services Section.

Effective:
April 7, 2009
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 130 - 127th General Assembly
One of the primary duties of the field services section is to assist the counties in developing their own probation services on either a single-county or multiple-county basis. The section, within limits of available personnel and funds, may supervise selected probationers from local courts.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.07 | Maintenance of Files and Records.

Effective:
March 22, 2013
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 160 - 129th General Assembly
The department of rehabilitation and correction shall maintain central files and records pertaining to the work of the adult parole authority, and shall coordinate the department's record-keeping with that of the adult parole authority. Additionally, the department shall not later than the first Monday of January of odd-numbered years prepare and submit to the governor for the governor's approval and signature a written report showing each case of pardon, commutation, or reprieve granted during the preceding biennium, stating the name and crime of the convict or prisoner, the sentence, its date, and the date of the clemency action, together with the reasons listed therefor in the governor's clemency record. The report shall conform to the requirements of Section 11 of Article III, Ohio Constitution.
The department shall conduct research relative to the functioning of clemency, probation, and parole as part of the adult corrections program in this state, which research shall be designed to yield information upon which the division of parole and community services, the department of rehabilitation and correction, the governor, and the general assembly can base policy decisions.
At the end of each quarter, the department shall submit to the chairpersons of the committees of the senate and the house of representatives that consider criminal justice legislation a report on the number and results of parole hearings conducted during the quarter and a list of persons incarcerated for committing offenses of violence who were granted parole and a summary of the terms and conditions of their parole. The department shall provide the committees with any documentation related to the reports that members of the committees may request.
Upon request, the department shall provide a detailed statement, supported by documentation, of the reasons why a particular prisoner was granted parole to the law enforcement agency that arrested the prisoner, the prosecuting attorney who prosecuted the case, or any person who is a member of the general assembly at the time the person makes the request.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.08 | Attorney General Duties.

Effective:
March 18, 1965
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 28 - 105th General Assembly
The attorney general is the legal adviser of the adult parole authority, its officers and employees, and neither the authority nor any of its officers or employees shall employ or be represented in its or his official capacity by any other counsel or attorney at law.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.09 | Appointing Officers and Employees.

Effective:
March 17, 1998
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 111 - 122nd General Assembly
The chief of the division of parole and community services is the principal appointing authority of the adult parole authority, and the chief shall appoint all officers and employees of the authority except for those officers appointed by the director of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to section 5149.02 or division (B) of section 5149.10 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.11 | Oaths - Subpoenas - Witnesses.

Effective:
July 1, 2009
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 525 - 127th General Assembly
In the exercise of any of the powers vested in the adult parole authority, the chief of the authority, any member of the board, or any hearing officer may administer oaths and in the name of the authority may issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum. The authority may compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of records and papers of all kinds and description including any and all books, accounts, documents, memorandums, and transcripts of testimony, pertaining to any inquiry within the powers and duties of the authority. Upon the failure of any person to comply with any order of the authority or any subpoena or subpoena duces tecum lawfully issued, or upon the refusal of any witness to testify to any matter regarding which the witness may be lawfully interrogated, a judge of the court of common pleas of any county in this state, on the application of the authority, shall compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from a court of common pleas or a refusal to testify therein.
Each witness who appears before the authority or before a member of the parole board by the authority's or member's order shall receive for attendance the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, and the fees and mileage shall be audited and paid out of the state treasury in the same manner as other expenses are audited and paid, upon the presentation of properly verified vouchers approved by the chief of the authority.
The chief of the authority or a member of the board, or any party who is the subject of the investigation, may in any investigation cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by sections 2319.08, 2319.09, 2319.11, and 2319.27 of the Revised Code and the Civil Rules.
Copies of the proceedings, minutes, actions, findings, recommendations, orders, and other records of the authority or its predecessors shall be verified and certified to by the officer conducting or responsible for such and attested by the chief of the authority, and when certified and attested shall be received in evidence as proof of the facts therein stated.
Minutes, actions, findings, recommendations, determinations, and orders made and kept by the adult parole authority are public records.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.12 | General Supervision of Probation and Parole.

Effective:
March 31, 2003
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 510 - 124th General Assembly
The adult parole authority shall exercise general supervision over the work of all probation and parole officers throughout the state, excluding those appointed in county probation departments and those appointed by municipal judges.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.18 | Interstate Compact for Supervision of Parolees and Probationers Definitions.

Effective:
January 1, 2004
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 490 - 124th General Assembly
For the purposes of Chapter 5149. of the Revised Code, all of the following apply:
(A) "State, states, or States" means one or several of the fifty states of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia.
(B) The term "parole" includes post-release control under section 2967.28 of the Revised Code.
(C) The term "probation" includes non-prison sanctions imposed under sections 2929.16, 2929.17, and 2929.18 of the Revised Code and community control sanctions imposed under sections 2929.26, 2929.27, and 2929.28 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.22 | Ohio Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision.

Effective:
September 29, 2013
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly
There is hereby established the Ohio council for interstate adult offender supervision pursuant to Article IV of the interstate compact for adult offender supervision. The council shall be comprised of at least twelve members. One member shall be the compact administrator for this state for the interstate compact for adult offender supervision or the administrator's designee. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint one member, shall be of the house of representatives. The president of the senate shall appoint one member, who shall be a member of the senate. The chief justice of the supreme court shall appoint three members, two of whom shall be members of the judiciary. The governor shall appoint five members, including a representative of a crime victim's organization, a member of the executive branch, a prosecuting attorney, a member of the state public defender's office, and a chief probation officer. The attorney general shall appoint one member, who shall be from the bureau of criminal identification and investigation. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall appoint as many additional members as the director considers necessary to fulfill the mission of the compact. The Ohio council for interstate adult offender supervision is not subject to section 101.84 of the Revised Code.
Each appointee to the state council shall be appointed in consultation with the department of rehabilitation and correction and shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. The members of the council shall serve without compensation, but each member shall be reimbursed for the member's actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of the member's official duties on the council.
The compact administrator for this state for the interstate compact for adult offender supervision, or the administrator's designee, shall serve as commissioner of the state council and as this state's representative to the interstate commission established under Article III of that compact.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.23 | Deputizing Employees to Effect Return of Violators.

Effective:
July 1, 1985
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly
(A) The chief of the adult parole authority may deputize any person regularly employed by another state to act as an officer and agent of this state in effecting the return of any person who has violated the terms and conditions of parole or probation as granted by this state. In any matter relating to the return of such a person, any agent so deputized shall have all the powers of a police officer of this state.
Any deputization pursuant to this section shall be in writing, and any person authorized to act as an agent of this state pursuant to this section shall carry formal evidence of his deputization and shall produce the evidence upon demand.
(B) The chief may, subject to the approval of the director of budget and management, enter into contracts with similar officials of any other state for the purpose of sharing an equitable portion of the cost of effecting the return of any person who has violated the terms and conditions of parole or probation as granted by this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.24 | Restricting Release on Bond or Final Release.

Effective:
July 24, 2002
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 269 - 124th General Assembly
(A) When a sending state places a hold warrant or a detainer warrant on an offender supervised under the interstate compact for adult offender supervision who is in custody in this state and that warrant does not provide that the offender may be released on bond pending return to the sending state, no court of record in this state has authority to release the offender on bond until the sending state withdraws the warrant.
(B) A receiving state has no authority to grant a final release from supervision to any offender supervised under the interstate compact for adult offender supervision unless and until the final release has been approved by the supervising authority of the sending state. The sending state shall not unreasonably withhold such a final release and shall promptly communicate the release to the supervising authorities of the receiving state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.30 | Community Corrections Program Definitions.

Effective:
April 6, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly
As used in sections 5149.30 to 5149.37 of the Revised Code:
(A) "Community corrections programs" include, but are not limited to, probation, parole, preventive or diversionary corrections programs, release-on-recognizance programs, prosecutorial diversion programs, specialized treatment programs for offenders with alcoholism and narcotic addictions, and community control sanctions as defined in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code.
(B) "Local corrections planning board" means the board established in each county under section 5149.34 of the Revised Code.
(C) "Joint county corrections planning board" means the board established by multiple counties under section 5149.35 of the Revised Code.
Last updated March 10, 2023 at 1:05 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.32 | Eligibility for Funds From Subsidy Programs.

Effective:
September 30, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 86 - 129th General Assembly
To be eligible for funds from the subsidy programs established under division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code, a municipal corporation, county, or group of counties shall comply with all of the following that are relevant:
(A) Maintain programs that meet the standards adopted under division (A)(2) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code;
(B) Demonstrate that it has made efforts to unify or coordinate its correctional service programs through consolidation, written agreements, purchase of service contracts, or other means;
(C) Demonstrate that the comprehensive plan for the county in which the municipal corporation is located, for the county, or for each county of the group of counties, as adopted under section 5149.34 of the Revised Code, has been approved by the director of rehabilitation and correction;
(D) Deliver programming that addresses the assessed needs of high risk offenders as established by the single validated risk assessment tool described in section 5120.114 of the Revised Code and that may be delivered through available and acceptable resources within the municipal corporation, county, or group of counties or through the department of rehabilitation and correction;
(E) If a subsidy was received in any prior fiscal year from a subsidy program established under division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code, demonstrate that the subsidy was expended in a good faith effort to improve the quality and efficiency of its community corrections programs and to reduce the number of persons committed to state correctional institutions and to county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jails or workhouses.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.33 | Prohibiting Reducing Local Funding.

Effective:
September 30, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 86 - 129th General Assembly
No municipal corporation, county, or group of counties receiving a subsidy under division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code shall reduce, by the amount of the subsidy it receives or by a greater or lesser amount, the amount of local, nonfederal funds it expends for corrections, including, but not limited to, the amount of local, nonfederal funds it expends for the operation of the county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, for any county or municipal probation department, or for any community corrections program. Each subsidy shall be used to make corrections expenditures in excess of those being made from local, nonfederal funds. No subsidy or portion of a subsidy shall be used to make capital improvements. If a recipient violates this section, the department of rehabilitation and correction may discontinue subsidy payments to the recipient.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.35 | Joint County Corrections Planning Board.

Effective:
March 17, 1998
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 111 - 122nd General Assembly
The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may enter into an agreement for the joint development, implementation, and operation of community corrections programs and may establish and maintain a joint county corrections planning board. Subject to division (A)(2) of section 5149.34 of the Revised Code, the board shall consist of an equal number of members of each county's local corrections planning board as established and maintained under division (A)(1) or (2) of that section. The joint county corrections planning board shall comply with the comprehensive plans adopted under that section in the operation of community corrections programs, but, if provisions of the comprehensive plans are contradictory or otherwise inconsistent, the board shall determine which provisions control.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.36 | Awarding Subsidies to Eligible Municipal Corporations and Counties.

Effective:
September 29, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly
Subject to appropriations by the general assembly, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall award subsidies to eligible municipal corporations, counties, and groups of counties pursuant to the subsidy programs described in division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code only in accordance with criteria that the department shall specify in rules adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The criteria shall be designed to provide for subsidy awards only on the basis of demonstrated need and the satisfaction of specified priorities. The criteria shall require that priority shall be given to the funding of community corrections programs that reduce the number of persons committed to state correctional institutions or the number of persons committed to county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jails or workhouses.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5149 | Adult Parole Authority › Section 5149.37 | No Limitation on Powers of Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

Effective:
March 17, 1998
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 111 - 122nd General Assembly
No provision of sections 5149.30 to 5149.36 of the Revised Code shall be construed to impose limitations upon the power of the department of rehabilitation and correction under Chapters 5120. and 5149. of the Revised Code to afford municipal corporations and counties with and to supervise their probation, parole, and other corrections services.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.01 | County Children Services Definitions.

Effective:
April 6, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly
(A) As used in the Revised Code, "public children services agency" means an entity specified in section 5153.02 of the Revised Code that has assumed the powers and duties of the children services function prescribed by this chapter for a county.
(B) As used in this chapter:
(1) "Certified foster home" means a foster home, as defined in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, certified under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Certified organization" means any organization holding a certificate issued pursuant to section 5103.03 of the Revised Code that is in full force and effect.
(3) "Child" means any person under eighteen years of age or a person with a mental or physical disability, as defined by rule adopted by the director of job and family services, under twenty-one years of age.
(4) "Executive director" means the person charged with the responsibility of administering the powers and duties of a public children services agency appointed pursuant to section 5153.10 of the Revised Code.
(5) "Organization" means any public, semipublic, or private institution, including maternity homes and day nurseries, and any private association, society, or agency, located or operating in this state, incorporated or unincorporated, having among its functions the furnishing of protective services or care for children or the placement of children in certified foster homes or elsewhere.
(6) "PCSA caseworker" means an individual employed by a public children services agency as a caseworker.
(7) "PCSA caseworker supervisor" means an individual employed by a public children services agency to supervise PCSA caseworkers.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 9:15 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.02 | Who May Serve as County Public Children Services Agency.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
Each county shall have a public children services agency. Any of the following may be the public children services agency:
(A) A county children services board;
(B) A county department of job and family services;
(C) A private or government entity designated under section 307.981 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.03 | Appointment to County Board.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
If a county children services board is a public children services agency for a county, the board of county commissioners shall appoint five members of the county children services board and for good cause may remove any member so appointed. Each of these members shall be appointed for the term of four years, but the board shall stagger their terms so that the terms of not more than two of the required members of the board expire in one year. The elected chairperson of any citizens advisory committee established under section 5153.05 of the Revised Code shall be an ex officio voting member of the county children services board. In addition to the five members it is required to appoint, a board of county commissioners of a county having less than one hundred thousand population according to the last federal census may appoint up to five or a board of county commissioners of a county having a population of one hundred thousand or more according to such census may appoint up to nine additional members of the county children services board. If these additional members are appointed, they shall be appointed for initial terms of one, two, three or four years as will maintain balance in the expiration dates of the members of the board. After the expiration of these original terms, these additional members shall be appointed for four-year terms. Any vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.04 | Officers - Meetings.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
A county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code shall elect one of its members as chairperson and another as secretary. The chairperson may appoint committees composed of board members and other persons interested in child care. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum, and the action of a majority of the members present shall constitute the action of the board. The board shall meet at least once a month and called or adjourned meetings may be held at any time, as the board determines. The board members shall serve without compensation, but they shall be entitled to their necessary expenses and shall be considered employees of the county under section 325.20 of the Revised Code. Failure of any member of the board to attend three consecutive regular meetings, unless for reasons beyond the member's control, or other manifest indifference to the purposes or work of the board, shall be cause for the member's removal from such board.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.05 | Advisory Committee on Children Services.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
If a county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code is a public children services agency for a county, the board may appoint an advisory committee on children services. If an entity specified in division (B) or (C) of section 5153.02 of the Revised Code is a public children services agency for a county, the board of county commissioners may appoint an advisory committee on children services. If appointed, an advisory committee may do all of the following:
(A) Further cooperation between the public children services agency and other child-caring agencies in the county;
(B) Carry out studies of the effectiveness and need for particular services to children in the county;
(C) Advise the public children services agency on policies pertaining to the provision of services to children.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.06 | Employment Contract With Executive Director.

Effective:
September 5, 2001
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 94 - 124th General Assembly
The county children services board may enter into a written contract with the board's executive director specifying terms and conditions of the executive director's employment. The executive director shall not be in the classified civil service. The period of the contract shall not exceed three years. Such a contract shall in no way abridge the right of the county children services board to terminate the employment of the executive director as an unclassified employee at will, but may specify terms and conditions for any such termination.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.10 | Executive Director - Inquiry Into Community Conditions.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
Each public children services agency shall designate an executive officer known as the "executive director," who shall not be in the classified civil service. The superintendent of the children's home, the county director of job and family services, or other individual may serve as the executive director.
The agency shall, from time to time, inquire into community conditions affecting the welfare of children and study the work of the agency and its relation to the work of other organizations whose functions are related to child welfare. The agency may, after consultation with the executive director, adopt rules of general application, not inconsistent with law or with the rules adopted by the director of job and family services.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.11 | Executive Director - Powers and Duties.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
The executive director shall administer the work of the public children services agency, subject to the rules of the agency. With the approval of the agency, the executive director shall appoint all other employees except the superintendent of any institution maintained by the agency. Such superintendent shall appoint all employees in any such institution.
Upon the advice of one or more reputable practicing physicians, the executive director may consent to such medical, dental, and surgical care, including surgery and the administration of anesthetics, inoculations, and immunizations, or other care as appears to be necessary for any child who is in the temporary or permanent custody of such agency. The executive director may also consent to the enlistment of a ward of such agency into the armed forces of the United States.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.112 | Caseworker Qualifications.

Effective:
October 5, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) A public children services agency may hire as a caseworker only the following:
(1) A person who has a bachelor's degree in human services-related studies;
(2) A person who has a bachelor's degree in any field and has been employed for at least two years in a human services-related occupation;
(3) A person who has an associate's degree in human services-related studies;
(4) A person who has been employed for at least five years in a human services-related occupation.
(B) For employment to continue, a person described in division (A)(2), (3), or (4) of this section must obtain a job-related bachelor's degree not later than five years after the date employment with the agency commences.
(C) This section applies only to persons hired on or after the effective date of this section and does not apply to a caseworker employed by a public children services agency before the effective date of this section who is hired by another public children services agency on or after that date.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.113 | Fitness of Child Welfare Applicant.

Effective:
September 29, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly
(A)(1) As used in this section, "applicant" has the same meaning as in section 5153.111 of the Revised Code, and includes an intern applicant or a volunteer applicant.
(2) "Intern applicant" means a trainee seeking practical educational and career experience who is under consideration for a position with a public children services agency to work, with or without monetary gain or compensation, as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child;
(3) "Volunteer applicant" means a person who is under consideration for a position with a public children services agency to perform services within the agency voluntarily, without monetary gain or compensation, as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child.
(B) Notwithstanding division (I)(1) of section 2151.421, section 5153.17, and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, before a public children services agency employs an applicant, the executive director of the agency, or the executive director's designee within the agency, shall review promptly any information the agency determines to be relevant for the purpose of evaluating the fitness of the applicant, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Abuse and neglect reports made pursuant to section 2151.421 of the Revised Code of which the applicant is the subject where it has been determined that abuse or neglect occurred;
(2) The final disposition of investigations of the abuse and neglect reports, or if the investigations have not been completed, the status of the investigations;
(3) Any underlying documentation concerning the reports.
(C) The information reviewed under division (B) of this section shall not include the name of the person or entity that made the report or participated in the making of the report of child abuse or neglect.
(D) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 9:22 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.12 | Classified Civil Service Status of Employees.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
All employees of the public children services agency shall be in the classified civil service. The agency may establish compensation rates and vacation benefits for any of its employees. Insofar as practicable, all employees holding positions in the classified service, whose duties are transferred by this section to the agency, shall be continued, with like status, by the appointing authority before any other appointments are made. This chapter shall not affect the civil service status of any employee.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.121 | Permitting Employee Sharing Between Department and County Board.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) The board of county commissioners and the county children services board may agree to permit any employee of the department of job and family services also to perform duties for the county children services board, or to permit any employee of the county children services board also to perform duties for the department of job and family services.
(B) An agreement made under division (A) of this section may require the board of county commissioners to pay a portion of the wages of any employee of the county children services board who also performs duties for the department of job and family services or require the county children services board to pay a portion of the wages of any employee of the department of job and family services who also performs duties for the county children services board.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 9:24 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.122 | Caseworker In-Service Training.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
Each PCSA caseworker hired after January 1, 2007, shall complete in-service training during the first year of the caseworker's continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker, except that the executive director of the public children services agency may waive the training requirement for a school of social work graduate who participated in the university partnership program described in division (E) of section 5101.141 of the Revised Code and as provided in section 5153.124 of the Revised Code. The training shall consist of courses in all of the following:
(A) Recognizing, accepting reports of, and preventing child abuse, neglect, and dependency;
(B) Assessing child safety;
(C) Assessing risks;
(D) Interviewing persons;
(E) Investigating cases;
(F) Intervening;
(G) Providing services to children and their families;
(H) The importance of and need for accurate data;
(I) Preparation for court;
(J) Maintenance of case record information;
(K) The legal duties of PCSA caseworkers to protect the constitutional and statutory rights of children and families from the initial time of contact during investigation through treatment, including instruction regarding parents' rights and the limitations that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution places upon caseworkers and their investigations;
(L) Content on other topics relevant to child abuse, neglect, and dependency, including permanency strategies, concurrent planning, and adoption as an option for unintended pregnancies.
After a PCSA caseworker's first year of continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker, the caseworker annually shall complete thirty-six hours of training in areas relevant to the caseworker's assigned duties.
During the first two years of continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker, each PCSA caseworker shall complete training in recognizing the signs of domestic violence and its relationship to child abuse as established in rules the director of job and family services shall adopt pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Last updated September 19, 2023 at 3:48 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.123 | Caseworker Supervisor In-Service Training.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall complete in-service training during the first year of the supervisor's continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor. The training shall include courses in screening reports of child abuse, neglect, or dependency. After a PCSA caseworker supervisor's first year of continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor, the supervisor annually shall complete thirty hours of training in areas relevant to the supervisor's assigned duties. During the first two years of continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor, each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall complete training in recognizing the signs of domestic violence and its relationship to child abuse as established in rules the director of job and family services shall adopt pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Last updated September 19, 2023 at 4:05 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.124 | Rules Implementing Training Requirements.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(A)(1) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the training requirements of sections 5153.122 and 5153.123 of the Revised Code.
(2) Not later than nine months after September 30, 2021, the director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish the circumstances under which an executive director of a public children services agency may waive portions of in-service training for PCSA caseworkers, in addition to the waiver described in section 5153.122 of the Revised Code.
(B) Notwithstanding sections 5103.37 to 5103.42 and sections 5153.122 to 5153.127 of the Revised Code, the department of job and family services may require additional training for PCSA caseworkers and PCSA caseworker supervisors as necessary to comply with federal requirements.
Last updated September 19, 2023 at 4:10 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.125 | Determining Caseworker's Training Needs.

Effective:
September 21, 2006
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 238 - 126th General Assembly
Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall work with each PCSA caseworker the supervisor supervises to determine the caseworker's training needs in accordance with, and ensure the caseworker's compliance with, the training requirements of section 5153.122 of the Revised Code. Once every two years, each PCSA caseworker and the caseworker's supervisor shall jointly complete the caseworker's individual training needs assessment created under section 5103.37 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.126 | Determining Supervisor's Training Needs.

Effective:
September 21, 2006
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 238 - 126th General Assembly
The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director shall work with each PCSA caseworker supervisor employed by the agency to determine the supervisor's training needs in accordance with, and ensure the supervisor's compliance with, the training requirements of section 5153.123 of the Revised Code. Once every two years, each PCSA caseworker supervisor and the executive director of the public children services agency employing the supervisor, or the person designated by the executive director, shall jointly complete the supervisor's individual training needs assessment created under section 5103.37 of the Revised Code.