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...ce records are confidential and are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall be used only in the course of the proper functions of a quality assurance program. (2) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, no person who possesses or has access to quality assurance records and who knows that the records are quality assurance records shall willfully disclose the contents of the ...

...tion 5139.51 of the Revised Code, and giving a child notice of all reviews; (3) Maintain records of its official actions, decisions, orders, and hearing summaries and make the records accessible in accordance with division (D) of section 5139.05 of the Revised Code; (4) Cooperate with public and private agencies, communities, private groups, and individuals for the development and improvement of its services; (5) ...

...fare of the child and protection of the public, the release authority, without approval of the court that committed the child, may discharge the child from the department's custody and control without placing the child on supervised release. Additionally, the release authority may discharge a child in the department's custody without the child being placed on supervised release if the child is removed from the jurisd...

...nt of youth services if the youth is serving a sentence that is more than one year, or within a reasonable time if the youth is serving a sentence that is less than one year, the department of youth services shall attempt to verify the youth's age and identity in order to satisfy the requirements of section 4507.51 of the Revised Code. (B) The department shall provide each youth who does not have a current valid a...

...icial release and that the child is leaving or is about to leave the state. (3) The child failed to appear before the release authority pursuant to a summons for a modification or failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing. (4) The arrest of the child is necessary to prevent physical harm to another person or to the child. (D)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this division, prior to arresting a child u...

...ousand dollars, conditioned to save the public harmless by reason of the unlawful use of a firearm. A person injured or the family of a person killed by the employee's improper use of a firearm may have recourse on the bond. (E) In addition to the deadly force policy adopted under division (B)(2) of this section, the director of youth services shall establish policies for the carrying and use of firearms by the empl...

... condition and is no longer a threat to public safety. (3) The child appears to be a person with a mental illness subject to court order, as defined in section 5122.01 of the Revised Code, or a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order, as defined in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. (B) When considering whether to release or discharge a child under this section for ...

...(A)(1) The office of victims' services is hereby created within the release authority of the department of youth services. The office of victims' services shall provide assistance to victims, victims' representatives, and members of a victim's family. The assistance shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following: (a) If the court has provided the name and address of the victims of the child's acts ...

...his section are confidential, are not a public record, and shall be returned to the release authority at the end of a release hearing by any person who receives a copy of them. At a release hearing before the release authority, a victim or victim's representative may be accompanied by another person for support, but that person shall not act as a victim's representative. The release authority and other employees of ...

...ion, shall be sold by the department at public auction and the proceeds of the sale delivered to the state treasurer for deposit in the general revenue fund. If the department considers it expedient, it may accumulate the property of several children and sell the property in such lots as it may determine, provided that it makes a determination as to each child's share of the proceeds. (3) If any tangible personal pr...

...(A) Each managing officer of an institution or regional office under the jurisdiction of the department of youth services, with the approval of the director of the department, may establish local funds designated as follows: (1) The cafeteria fund, created and maintained for the benefit of the institution, into which shall be deposited all money received from the sale of cafeteria meals. The fund shall be used to pa...

...(A) The department of youth services shall serve as the state agent for the administration of federal juvenile justice grants awarded to the state. (B) There is hereby created in the state treasury the juvenile justice and delinquency prevention fund. All federal grants and other moneys received for federal juvenile programs shall be deposited into the fund. All receipts deposited into the fund shall be used for fe...

...Whoever violates section 5139.21 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

...de, the prisoner shall be held to be serving one continuous term of imprisonment. If a court imposes a sentence to a state correctional institution for a felony of the fourth or fifth degree, the department of rehabilitation and correction, notwithstanding the court's designation of a state correctional institution as the place of service of the sentence, may designate that the person sentenced is to be housed in a ...

...tside the department's institutions, in public works, in institutional jobs necessary for the proper maintenance or operation of the department's institutions, and in other appropriate forms of labor; (2) A system of compensation, allowances, hours, conditions of employment, and advancement for prisoners who are employed in any form of labor; (3) The regulation of the working conditions for prisoners who are employ...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction shall maintain the control over prisoners committed to its custody that prevents them from committing crime, secure their self-support, and accomplish their reformation. When a prisoner is received into a state correctional institution upon direct sentence to the institution, the department shall enter in a register the date of the admission, the prisoner's name, age, ...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction, upon the register required to be maintained by section 5145.04 of the Revised Code, shall enter notes of observed improvement or deterioration of character of the prisoner, the method of treatment employed for the prisoner, orders or alterations affecting his standing or situation, the prisoner's performance of labor while committed, and subsequent facts of personal hi...

...(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish and operate a school system that is approved and chartered by the department of education and workforce and designated as the Ohio central school system to serve all of the correctional institutions under its control. The Ohio central school system shall provide educational programs for prisoners to allow them to complete adult basic education course...

...The superintendent of the elementary day school for uneducated prisoners in the penitentiary shall make monthly reports to the department of rehabilitation and correction with respect to the management and progress of the school and as to all matters under his supervision.

...Labor or service shall not be performed by a prisoner within a correctional institution, unless the labor or service is expressly authorized by rules adopted by the department of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code.

...The department of rehabilitation and correction may, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code, employ a portion of the prisoners in the manufacture of articles that are used by the state, any other state, any political subdivision or institution of this state, any other state, or the United States, or private persons. The department may procure machinery and pre...

...tside the department's institutions, in public works, in institutional jobs necessary for the proper maintenance and operation of the institutions under the control of the department, or in any other appropriate form of labor. The department, pursuant to the program, shall attempt to engage in work programs as many prisoners as possible who are in its custody and who are eligible for the programs. The department is ...

...(A) The program for the employment of prisoners within the custody of the department of rehabilitation and correction that the department is required to establish by division (A) of section 5145.16 of the Revised Code shall be administered in accordance with any rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code and with the following requirements: (1) The department shall consider the n...

...the department's program; (4) Promote public awareness of the office of enterprise development and the office's employment program; (5) Familiarize itself and the public with avenues to access the office of enterprise development on employment program concerns; (6) Advocate for the needs and concerns of the office of enterprise development in local communities, counties, and the state; (7) Play an active role...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Customer model enterprise" means an enterprise conducted under a federal prison industries enhancement certification program in which a private party participates in the enterprise only as a purchaser of goods and services. (2) "Employer model enterprise" means an enterprise conducted under a federal prison industries enhancement certification program in which a private party p...