Effective: October 5, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 123rd General Assembly A public children services agency may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring employees of the agency, volunteers, foster caregivers associated with the agency, and, if a county children services board is the public children services agency, board members against liability […]
Effective: July 1, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 471 – 123rd General Assembly The executive director shall prepare and submit an annual report to the public children services agency at the end of each calendar year and shall file copies of such report with the department of job and family services, the board of county […]
Effective: July 1, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 471 – 123rd General Assembly The powers and duties enumerated in sections 5153.16 to 5153.19 of the Revised Code, with respect to the care of children, needing or likely to need public care or services, shall be vested in a single agency of county government, namely, a […]
Effective: March 14, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 493 – 131st General Assembly (A) Except as provided in section 2151.422 of the Revised Code, in accordance with rules adopted under section 5153.166 of the Revised Code, and on behalf of children in the county whom the public children services agency considers to be in need […]
Effective: March 20, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 279 – 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “qualified nonrelative” means a nonrelative adult whom a child or the current custodial caretaker of a child identifies as having a familiar and longstanding relationship or bond with the child or the child’s family that will […]
Effective: October 1, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 408, House Bill 215 – 122nd General Assembly Pursuant to an agreement entered into under division (A)(9) of section 5153.16 of the Revised Code respecting the operation, acquisition, or maintenance of a children’s home, training school, or other institution for the care of children maintained by a […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) “Adoptive parent” means, as the context requires, a prospective adoptive parent or an adoptive parent. (2) “Relative” has the same meaning as in section 5101.141 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Before a child’s adoption is […]
Effective: September 5, 2001 Latest Legislation: House Bill 94 – 124th General Assembly If a family is encountering an emergency that could lead, or has led, to removal of a child from the family’s home pursuant to Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code, the public children services agency shall determine whether the child could remain […]
Effective: September 21, 2006 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 238 – 126th General Assembly In addition to other rules specifically authorized by the Revised Code, the director of job and family services may adopt rules governing public children services agencies’ performance of their family services duties, including the family services duties that public children services agencies […]
Effective: September 21, 2006 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 238 – 126th General Assembly The public children services agency shall prepare and keep written records of investigations of families, children, and foster homes, and of the care, training, and treatment afforded children, and shall prepare and keep such other records as are required by the department […]
Effective: October 5, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 123rd General Assembly (A) On receipt by a public children services agency of a request for the release of information about a child under eighteen years of age who was a resident of the county served by the agency at the time of death and […]
Effective: October 5, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 123rd General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding sections 2151.421, 3701.243, 5153.17, and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality and unless precluded by section 5153.173 of the Revised Code, the director shall disclose the following information concerning a deceased child in accordance with section […]
Effective: October 5, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 123rd General Assembly The director shall not disclose any information pursuant to section 5153.172 of the Revised Code if a judge of the common pleas court of the county the deceased child resided in at the time of death determines, on motion of the public […]
Effective: March 14, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 493 – 131st General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding division (I)(1) of section 2151.421, section 5153.17, and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, when a public children services agency has determined that child abuse or neglect occurred and that abuse or neglect involves a person […]
Effective: March 14, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 493 – 131st General Assembly As used in this section, “license” has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (A) Notwithstanding division (I)(1) of section 2151.421, section 5153.17, or any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, the director of a […]
Effective: October 1, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 408 – 122nd General Assembly (A) The public children services agency shall have the capacity possessed by natural persons to institute proceedings in any court. (B) When appointed by the probate court exercising jurisdiction in adoption proceedings, the executive director may act as next friend of any […]
Effective: October 1, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 408 – 122nd General Assembly The public children services agency shall, before entering into any agreement obligating the agency with respect to the care of any child, determine the ability of the child, parent, guardian, or other person to pay for the cost of such care, having […]
Effective: September 21, 2006 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 238 – 126th General Assembly (A)(1) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the cost of care furnished by the public children services agency or the board of county commissioners to any child having a legal residence in another county shall be charged to the […]
Effective: September 15, 2014 Latest Legislation: House Bill 483 – 130th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may establish a children’s home upon the recommendation of the public children services agency and subject to certification by the department of job and family services under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code and the requirements of […]
Effective: July 1, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 471 – 123rd General Assembly If there is no children’s home in the county or if the facilities for institutional care are inadequate, the public children services agency may, subject to the approval of the department of job and family services and the board of county commissioners, […]
