OH HB778

Amends Ohio Revised Code Section 2919.27 to allow courts to order electronic monitoring of individuals who violate protection orders.

Court may require monitoring for up to five years using active global positioning system devices managed by a designated law enforcement agency.

Court must specify exclusion and inclusion zones; law enforcement must immediately alert the protected person if the offender comes within 500 yards of or enters an exclusion zone.

Unless the offender is determined to be indigent, the offender must pay installation and monitoring costs; indigent offenders' costs may be paid from the reparations fund up to a $300,000 annual cap.

Previously existing language limiting electronic monitoring to specific order types (sections 2151.34 and 2903.214) is removed, expanding court authority to order monitoring for all protection order violations.