Ohio Senate Bill #187 requires that all prospective volunteers be made aware of the law passed on March 22, 2001 regarding volunteers with “unsupervised access to children on a regular basis.” Although your volunteer position will likely never require work with children, the City of Oakwood is notifying all prospective volunteers of the law.

This law is “for organizations and entities that have volunteers who regularly have unsupervised access to children…to provide for warnings to such volunteers that they might be subjected to criminal records checks, and to provide parental notification in certain circumstances regarding the outcome of criminal records checks of such volunteers.”

Organization or entity means a religious, charitable, scientific, educational, athletic, or service institution organization or local government entity that provides care, treatment, education, training, instruction, supervision, or recreation to children.

Unsupervised access is defined as the person in question having access to a child and that either:

• 1) No other person eighteen years of age or older is present in the same room with the child,
• 2) If outdoors, no other person eighteen years of age or older is within a 30-yard radius of the child or has visual contact with the child.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Lori Stacel at (937) 298-0600.