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...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.

...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...

...The "interstate compact for adult offender supervision" is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining in that compact in the form substantially as follows: "INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR ADULT OFFENDER SUPERVISION ARTICLE I PURPOSE The compacting states to this interstate compact recognize that each state is responsible for the supervision of adult offenders in the community wh...

...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 repres...

...(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. An...

...(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 war...

...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 t...

...(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall do all of the following: (1) Establish and administer a program of subsidies for eligible counties and groups of counties for felony offenders and a program of subsidies for eligible municipal corporations, counties, and groups of counties for misdemeanor offenders for the development, implementation, and operation of community corrections programs. Departme...

...(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish and administer the probation improvement grant and the probation incentive grant for common pleas, municipal, and county court probation departments and community-based correctional facilities that supervise offenders sentenced by courts of common pleas, municipal courts, or county courts. (B)(1) The probation improvement grant shall provide funding...

...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 coordi...

...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, multicount...

...(A)(1) If a county desires to receive a subsidy from a subsidy program established under division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code for community corrections programs as described in division (A)(2) of that section, the board of county commissioners of the county shall establish, by a resolution as described in this division, and maintain a local corrections planning board that, except as provided i...

...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 boa...

...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....

...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.

...(A) In each voluntary county, subject to division (B) of this section and not later than the deadlines established by the department of rehabilitation and correction in division (B)(3)(b)(ii) of section 2929.34 of the Revised Code, a county commissioner representing the board of county commissioners of the county, the administrative judge of the general division of the court of common pleas of the county, the sheriff...

...(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 ...

...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.

...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 ...

...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 b...

...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...

...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 o...

...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 st...

...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 physicia...

...(A)(1) The executive director of a public children services agency shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any applicant who has applied to the agency for employment as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child. If the applicant does not present proof that the applicant has been a resident o...