Ohio law has limits on where sex offenders can live in relation to schools, preschools and other child-care facilities depending on when they were convicted – the restrictions are greater on those with recent convictions because of when those laws passed. But there is no restriction on sex offenders living near their victims.

The Ohio House nearly unanimously passed a bill to ban convicted a sex offender or a child-victim offender from living within 2,000 feet of their victim.

Rep. Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland) said he proposed banning sex offenders from living within two thousand feet of their victims after the family in his district reached out, telling him their neighbor had abused their six-year-old child. He was convicted and put on the sex offender registry for 25 years.

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