Ohio Administrative Code

11.15 PDF: (A) The following definitions are applicable to this rule:(1) "County family services agency" has the same meaning as defined in section 307.981 of the Revised Code.(2) "Grant" means an award for one or more family services duties or workforce development duties of fed…

11.15 PDF: (A) The following definitions are applicable to this rule:(1) "Inactive records" means closed case files, where the assistance group (AG):(a) Is no longer receiving benefits;(b) Has no pending administrative action, hearing or appeal; and(c) The county agency no longer…

11.15 PDF: (A) Federal tax information (FTI): definition, usage limitations and notification, and non-disclosure.(1) FTI is any return or return information received from the internal revenue service (IRS) or secondary source, such as the social security administration (SSA), fed…

11.15 PDF: (A) This supplemental rule provides general guidance to county agencies on the safeguarding of federal tax information (FTI), with the exception of child support enforcement agencies, which are required to comply with the requirements of rule 5101:12-1-20.2 of the Admi…

11.15 PDF: (A) Definitions used in this rule.(1) "Federal Tax Information" (FTI) is any return or return information received from the internal revenue service (IRS), or secondary source, such as the social security administration (SSA), federal office of child support enforcemen…

11.15 PDF: (A) Ohio department of job and family services (ODJFS) as a pass-through entity (PTE) is required to manage and monitor their subrecipients as stated in the most recent version of 2 C.F.R. part 200, subpart D, "Subrecipient Monitoring and Management." (B) Definitions:(…

11.15 PDF: To help secure departmental data, all county and state employees and contractors (hereafter referred to as 'user' or 'users') who access data systems maintained by or on behalf of the Ohio department of job and family services (ODJFS) via the private or public network,…

11.15 PDF: (A) As used in this rule, "county family services agency" means a county department of job and family services, child support enforcement agency, public children services agency, or other entity designated by a board of county commissioners in accordance with section 3…

(A) Section 2967.26 of the Revised Code permits the department of rehabilitation and correction to transfer eligible prisoners to transitional control status for the purpose of closely monitoring a prisoner's adjustment to community supervision during the final one hundred eighty…

(A) All prisoners shall be screened to determine initial transitional control eligibility based on the criteria established in rule 5120-12-01 of the Administrative Code.(B) Prisoners deemed eligible for transitional control consideration shall be interviewed by a unit manager/de…

(A) The bureau of community sanctions has the following transitional control responsibilities:(1) Notify the bureau of records and institution designee concerning the status of each prisoner approved for transfer to a halfway house facility.(2) Coordinate the transfer and transpo…

(A) Prisoners on transitional control may be confined, pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 2967.26 of the Revised Code, in a halfway house facility or a residence approved for this purpose and monitored by an electronic monitoring device. The following criteria will be conside…

(A) The adult parole authority may require a prisoner who is transferred to transitional control, including prisoners placed on an electronic monitoring device while under transitional control, to pay a fee to the division of parole and community services for reasonable expenses …

(A) The licensed facility may issue passes for the temporary release from a licensed facility of prisoners transferred to transitional control status for certain limited purposes in accordance with division (D) of section 2967.26 of the Revised Code.(B) Passes may be issued only …

(A) Whenever a prisoner violates any rule or condition of the transitional control program, the supervising authority will take appropriate action in response to the violation behavior. Such action may include the imposition of a sanction which may range from warning the prisoner…

(A) A prisoner will be removed from the transitional control program and returned to prison if any of the following events occur:(1) After transfer to transitional control status, it is learned that the prisoner does not meet all of the eligibility requirements set forth in rule …

(A) Section 5120.114 of the Revised Code requires the department of rehabilitation and correction to identify a single validated risk assessment tool to be used by courts, probation departments, and other entities to assess an adult offender's risk of reoffending and to assess th…

(A) As used in this rule:(1) "Cognitive or behavioral improvement programs" means evidence-based programs that focus upon the thinking patterns and social skills of the offender.(2) "Licensing agency" has the same meaning as in section 2961.21 of the Revised Code.(B) An offender …

(A) All individuals that satisfy the eligibility criteria specified in paragraph (C) or (D) of this rule may petition the deputy director of the division of parole and community services for a certificate of qualification for employment pursuant to section 2953.25 of the Revised …

(A) Section 2949.221 of the Revised Code was enacted to protect the identities of persons who assist the department of rehabilitation and correction in carrying out a court-ordered sentence of death by lethal injection, in order to protect those persons from harassment and potent…

(A) Section 5120.035 of the Revised Code requires the department of rehabilitation and correction to establish and operate a community-based substance use disorder treatment program for eligible prisoners. The purpose of this program is to provide substance use disorder assessmen…

(A) All prisoners are screened to determine initial eligibility for transfer to a community-based substance use disorder treatment program based on the minimum criteria established in rule 5120-17-01 of the Administrative Code.(B) With respect to those prisoners that meet the min…

(A) The bureau of community sanctions has the following responsibilities:(1) Notify the bureau of records and institution designee concerning the status of each prisoner approved for transfer to the facility of a community treatment provider.(2) Coordinate the transfer and transp…

(A) Pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 5120.035 of the Revised Code, prisoners in the substance use disorder treatment program may, after an appropriate length of stay at the facility of the community treatment provider, be confined in an approved residence and be monitored b…

(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction may require a prisoner who is transferred into the substance use disorder treatment program, including prisoners placed on an electronic monitoring device while in the program, to pay a fee to the division of parole and communit…

(A) The treatment provider may issue passes for the temporary release from a treatment facility of prisoners transferred into the substance use disorder treatment program for certain limited purposes. No passes are to be issued to a prisoner within thirty days of the prisoner's a…

(A) Whenever a prisoner violates rules of the community treatment provider or rules of participation in the substance use disorder treatment program, the treatment provider will take appropriate action in response to the violation behavior. Such action may include the imposition …

(A) A prisoner willbe removed from the substance use disorder treatment program and returned to prison if any of the following events occur:(1) After transfer to the facility of a treatment provider, it is learned that the prisoner does not meet all of the eligibility requirement…

(A) A prisoner is deemed to have successfully participated in and completed the treatment program if the prisoner was not removed from the program and returned to a department of rehabilitation and correction institution and if the community treatment provider determines that the…

(A) The "Tenant education, training, and readiness programs that a prisoner may complete to satisfy the criteria described" in division (A) of section 2961.22 of the Revised Code refers to the program the department of rehabilitation and correction establishes by policy.(B) A cer…

(A) An individual who is subject to one or more collateral sanctions for housing as a result of being convicted of or pleading guilty to an offense and who has not already received a certificate of qualification for housing under section 2961.25 of the Revised Code may file for a…

(A) This rule applies only to prison terms imposed for offenses committed before July 1, 1996. Any sentence of imprisonment to the department of rehabilitation and correction is to be served consecutively to any other sentence of imprisonment in the following cases:(1) The trial …

(A) This rule applies only to prison terms imposed for offenses committed on or after July 1, 1996, to be served with the department of rehabilitation and correction.(B) A prison term is to be served consecutively to any other prison term as provided by law.(C) A prison term is t…

(A) As used in this rule:(1) "Senate Bill 2 sentence" means a prison term imposed for offenses committed on or after July 1, 1996 but before September 30, 2011.(2) "Pre-Senate Bill 2 sentence" means prison terms imposed for offenses committed before July 1, 1996. "Pre-Senate Bill…

(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction is to reduce the minimum and maximum sentence, where applicable, the definite sentence, the minimum and maximum of a non-life felony indefinite prison term, or the stated prison term of an offender by the total number of days sp…

(A) Except as provided elsewhere in this rule, an offender serving a felony sentence in a correctional facility operated by the department of rehabilitation and correction may, by faithfully observing the rules of the institution, earn a deduction of up to thirty per cent of his …

(A) Except as otherwise provided in this rule, any person confined in a state correctional institution or placed in a substance use disorder treatment program, may earn credit as a deduction from the person's sentence for each full month of productive participation, as defined by…

(A) Except as provided by paragraphs (F), (G), (H), (I) and (J) of this rule, any offender who maintains minimum security status as defined by paragraphs (A), (B), and (C) of this rule is entitled to have three days of credit deducted from his minimum or definite sentence for eac…

(A) As a result of a number of amendments to the Revised Code over a period of years, the provisions for diminution of sentence and eligibility for parole, shock parole, employment/education furlough and home furlough are affected by the language in the sentencing documents (jour…

(A) Except as provided in paragraph (B) of rule 5120-2-05 of the Administrative Code, the provisions of rule 5120-2-05 of the Administrative Code apply to all persons who are confined in a state correctional institution on or after November 1, 1987, regardless of the date on whic…

(A) As used in this rule, "nonmandatory prison term" or "non-mandatory non-life felony indefinite prison term" means any prison term that is not identified as a mandatory prison term in the sentencing court's sentence.(B) For each offender upon whom the sentencing court has impos…

(A) As used in this rule, "administrative release," "parole," and "post-release control" have the same meanings as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code.(B) The director of the department of rehabilitation and correction may grant an administrative release to a prisoner who esca…

(A) This rule applies to the discretion granted to the director, under section 2967.271 of the Revised Code, to recommend that a sentencing court reduce the minimum prison term of an incarcerated adult serving a non-life felony indefinite prison term. (B) As used in this rule:(1)…

(A) A "work program" is:(1) Any shop, department, work detail or labor assignment under the direction of the department of rehabilitation and correction, established for the purpose of industrial or agricultural production, or for the maintenance and operation of the institution …

(A) OPI has the authority to represent the department of rehabilitation and correction (hereinafter referred to in this chapter as "the department") in pursuing labor opportunities and job assignments for inmates as authorized and intended in division (C) of section 5145.16 of th…

(A) The purpose of this rule is to allow selected inmates the opportunity to participate in programs in private industry and agriculture located outside of the department's institutions.(1) Definitions. As used in this chapter:(a) "Institution" means any state penal institution, …

(A) Private employment of inmates may occur as approved by the director of rehabilitation and correction. Private employment will not occur inside an institution of the department unless, pursuant to a written agreement, the employer complies with the provisions of this rule.(B) …