Ohio Code 5502.61 – Criminal justice services definitions
As used in sections 5502.61 to 5502.66 of the Revised Code:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5502.61
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(A) “Federal criminal justice acts” means any federal law that authorizes financial assistance and other forms of assistance to be given by the federal government to the states to be used for the improvement of the criminal and juvenile justice systems of the states.
(B)(1) “Criminal justice system” includes all of the functions of the following:
(a) The state highway patrol, county sheriff offices, municipal and township police departments, and all other law enforcement agencies;
(b) The courts of appeals, courts of common pleas, municipal courts, county courts, and mayor’s courts, when dealing with criminal cases;
(c) The prosecuting attorneys, city directors of law, village solicitors, and other prosecuting authorities when prosecuting or otherwise handling criminal cases, and the county and joint county public defenders and other public defender agencies or offices;
(d) The department of rehabilitation and correction, probation departments, county and municipal jails and workhouses, and any other department, agency, or facility that is concerned with the rehabilitation or correction of criminal offenders;
(e) Any public or private agency whose purposes include the prevention of crime or the diversion, adjudication, detention, or rehabilitation of criminal offenders;
(f) Any public or private agency, the purposes of which include assistance to crime victims or witnesses.
(2) The inclusion of any public or private agency, the purposes of which include assistance to crime victims or witnesses, as part of the criminal justice system pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section does not limit, and shall not be construed as limiting, the discretion or authority of the attorney general with respect to crime victim assistance and criminal justice programs.
(C) “Juvenile justice system” includes all of the functions of the juvenile courts, the department of youth services, any public or private agency whose purposes include the prevention of delinquency or the diversion, adjudication, detention, or rehabilitation of delinquent children, and any of the functions of the criminal justice system that are applicable to children.
(D) “Comprehensive plan” means a document that coordinates, evaluates, and otherwise assists, on an annual or multi-year basis, any of the functions of the criminal and juvenile justice systems of the state or a specified area of the state, that conforms to the priorities of the state with respect to criminal and juvenile justice systems, and that conforms with the requirements of all federal criminal justice acts. These functions may include, but are not limited to, any of the following:
(1) Crime and delinquency prevention;
(2) Identification, detection, apprehension, and detention of persons charged with criminal offenses or delinquent acts;
(3) Assistance to crime victims or witnesses, except that the comprehensive plan does not include the functions of the attorney general pursuant to sections 109.91 and 109.92 of the Revised Code;
(4) Adjudication or diversion of persons charged with criminal offenses or delinquent acts;
(5) Custodial treatment of criminal offenders, delinquent children, or both;
(6) Institutional and noninstitutional rehabilitation of criminal offenders, delinquent children, or both.
(E) “Metropolitan county criminal justice services agency” means an agency that is established pursuant to division (A) of section 5502.64 of the Revised Code.
(F) “Administrative planning district” means a district that is established pursuant to division (A) or (B) of section 5502.66 of the Revised Code.
(G) “Criminal justice coordinating council” means a criminal justice services agency that is established pursuant to division (D) of section 5502.66 of the Revised Code.
(H) “Local elected official” means any person who is a member of a board of county commissioners or township trustees or of a city or village council, judge of the court of common pleas, a municipal court, or a county court, sheriff, county coroner, prosecuting attorney, city director of law, village solicitor, or mayor.
(I) “Juvenile justice coordinating council” means a juvenile justice services agency that is established pursuant to division (D) of section 5502.66 of the Revised Code.
(J) “Mcgruff house program” means a program in which individuals or families volunteer to have their homes or other buildings serve as places of temporary refuge for children and to display the mcgruff house symbol identifying the home or building as that type of place.
(K) “Mcgruff house symbol” means the symbol that is characterized by the image of “mcgruff,” the crime dog, and the slogan “take a bite out of crime,” and that has been adopted by the national crime prevention council as the symbol of its national citizens’ crime prevention campaign.
(L) “Sponsoring agency” means any of the following:
(1) The board of education of any city, local, or exempted village school district;
(2) The governing board of any educational service center;
(3) The governing authority of any chartered nonpublic school;
(4) The police department of any municipal corporation, township, township police district, or joint police district;
(5) The office of any township constable or county sheriff.