COLUMBUS — Community-based correctional facilities would be required to help individuals in their custody obtain a state identification card under legislation being considered in the Ohio General Assembly.

House Bill 393, sponsored by state Reps. Gary Click (R., Vickery) and Darnell Brewer (D., Cleveland), would add CBCFs to the state ID program that is currently being implemented throughout the state prison system. The bill passed unanimously in the Ohio House and is now in the hands of the Ohio Senate.

Under the program, prisons are required to provide inmates with an ID card application. Prisons are then required to submit the completed application, color photograph, and documentary evidence of the inmate’s age and identity to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

CBCFs should have been

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