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OH HB262
Bill
Status
6/27/2012
Primary Sponsor
Cheryl Grossman
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AI Summary
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Attorney General must annually publish statistical data on human trafficking violations in Ohio, with agencies required to submit information on investigations, arrests, convictions, victim demographics, trafficking routes, and socioeconomic factors.
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Peace officers must receive training on identifying trafficking violations, identifying victims, prosecution methods, collaboration with social service organizations, victim protection, and victim safety; Attorney General may prepare public awareness programs in cooperation with relevant state departments.
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Juvenile courts may hold prostitution-related or trafficking-related delinquency complaints in abeyance for up to 270 days while child completes diversion actions; successful completion results in case dismissal and immediate record expungement.
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Trafficking in persons becomes a first-degree felony with mandatory 10-15 year prison sentence; obstructing justice related to trafficking becomes a second-degree felony; procuring a minor for prostitution becomes a fourth or fifth-degree felony; certain trafficking-related offenses require sex offender registration.
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Creates Victims of Human Trafficking Fund from money and property seized in trafficking cases; establishes right of trafficking victims to expunge prostitution-related convictions and apply for Victims of Crime Fund awards; requires Division of Criminal Justice Services to distribute posters with National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline information.
Legislative Description
To require the Attorney General annually to publish statistical data on human trafficking cases in Ohio, to provide for peace officer training and public awareness programs relative to human trafficking, to authorize a juvenile court to hold a delinquent child complaint in abeyance pending the child's completion of diversion actions if the alleged delinquent child is charged with prostitution-related conduct or is a victim of trafficking in persons, to ensure that minor victims of trafficking in persons are not prohibited from receiving awards from the Victims of Crime Fund, to increase the penalties for trafficking in persons and obstruction of justice, to prohibit a person from soliciting another to engage in sexual conduct with the offender when the other person is sixteen or seventeen years of age and a victim of trafficking in persons, to increase the penalty for procuring in certain circumstances, to require offenders convicted of promoting prostitution or of trafficking in persons under certain circumstances to register as sex offenders, to authorize a person convicted of or adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a prostitution-related offense or act to apply for expungement of the record of conviction or adjudication if the person's participation in the offense or act was a result of being a victim of human trafficking, to recommend that agencies that grant licenses for trades or professions require training related to human trafficking, to require the Division of Criminal Justice Services to create and make available a poster that provides information regarding the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, to create the Victims of Human Trafficking Fund, and to declare an emergency.
Minor victim of trafficking in persons-remedies
Last Action
Effective Date
6/27/2012