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 law, registered sex offenders are not allowed to live
within 1,000 feet of a school, and the 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
