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Dear Visitor,
One of the most important programs in the Attorney General's office is eSORN,
Ohio's Electronic Sex Offender Registration and Notification, one of the
nation's preeminent applications for locating and tracking registered sex
offenders.
You are encouraged to take advantage of the many tools on this website to
protect yourself and those you care about. Here, you will find information
about how to sign up to receive automated
messages when a sex offender moves near a location you care about (your
daycare provider, home, work, etc.) and how to submit tips to investigators on
offenders within the system. The site also features information on the
"Most Wanted" fugitives and persons who have failed to register. You
can search the database records by county and name.
This database is linked to all 88 Ohio County Sheriff's offices and all 32
correctional facility records offices of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation
and Corrections. eSORN provides one location for all Ohio law enforcement
officials to freely share information on registered sex offenders.
Also available on this website is a concise breakdown of the various changes to
Ohio's SORN law. Each sex offender who is legally required to register must
provide the county sheriff with his or her name and address, his or her
classification, the offense(s) for which he or she was convicted and have a
picture taken and be fingerprinted. The sheriff's office must then provide the
Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation with that information
to store and to post on eSORN.
Under Ohio Revised Code 2950.034, registered sex offenders are not allowed to
live within 1,000 feet of a school, preschool or daycare center (as defined in
that section). The Ohio General Assembly has empowered county prosecutors to
evict offenders found to be in violation of this act. My office regularly
defends any legal challenges to the law.
The important information available on this website is beneficial to all
Ohioans. Sharing the information among law enforcement officials and agencies
will help protect all Ohioans from dangerous sex offenders throughout the
state.
If you have any information regarding an offender listed in this registry, you
can submit it for forwarding to the appropriate Sheriff's office by clicking on
the "Submit a Tip/Correction" link located below the offender's photograph on
the offender details page. Or, you can report information directly to the
Sheriff's office. Contact information for all Ohio Sheriff's offices can be
found on the
Contact Your Sheriff page
of this site, or look in your local telephone directory under County
Government.