Ohio Senate Bill 104 (2024), titled the Protect All Students Act, restricts transgender individuals’ access to school and university bathrooms by requiring facilities to be designated solely for male or female use based on biological sex. It prohibits schools from establishing multi-gendered or gender-neutral facilities and bars students of different biological sexes from sharing overnight accommodations.
Ohio Revised Code Chapter 111, known as Ohio’s Safe at Home program, protects survivors of domestic violence, stalking, human trafficking, rape, or sexual battery by allowing them to keep their residential addresses confidential and out of public records. The program is administered by the Secretary of State’s office and is designed to prevent abusers from locating survivors.
Ohio Revised Code § 4112.02 prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices in employment, though exemptions exist for religious institutions with respect to hiring based on religion.
Ohio Revised Code Title 31 contains provisions on domestic relations and children. Chapter 3113 addresses neglect, abandonment, and domestic violence involving children, covering court procedures, protective services, and funding. Chapter 3109 governs child abuse prevention, custody
Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2919 governs offenses against the family.
Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2907 defines and classifies sex offenses within the state’s criminal code. It encompasses crimes involving sexual conduct, contact, and solicitation, addressing both physical acts and preparatory or exploitative behavior.
Ohio Revised Code § 2903.211 defines menacing by stalking as a pattern of conduct involving two or more related incidents directed at another person, or at one or more persons within the same organization, that knowingly causes fear of physical harm or mental distress. The offense is a misdemeanor of the first degree, but it becomes a felony of the fourth or fifth degree when aggravating factors exist, including prior convictions, threats of violence, or use of electronic communications.
Ohio Revised Code § 2317.56 requires physicians, absent a medical emergency, to meet with a pregnant patient at least twenty-four hours before an abortion procedure to provide specified information regarding the nature and risks of the procedure. Compliance with these informed consent requirements is a condition of performing a lawful abortion.
Article I, Section 22 of the Ohio state Constitution establishes an explicit right to reproductive freedom, protecting individual decision-making in matters of contraception, fertility treatment, pregnancy continuation, miscarriage care, and abortion. It prohibits the State from burdening, penalizing, prohibiting, interfering with, or discriminating against the exercise of this right or against those who assist in exercising it, while permitting narrowly tailored health and safety regulations.
In re Return of Weapons to J.W.D., 149 N.J. 108 (1997) is a case where the New Jersey Supreme Court considered whether firearms seized following a domestic violence complaint must be returned once the complaint is withdrawn or dismissed. The Court held that the dismissal of a complaint does not mandate return of weapons under N.J.
