CRIMINAL  OFFENSES
WHICH  SERVE  TO  BAR  EMPLOYMENT
IN  A  SCHOOL  DISTRICT

Completing a teacher education program is not the only requirement one must meet to be employed in Ohio schools.  Ohio  Law (Ohio Revised Code 3319.39) identifies thirty-four (34) criminal offenses, felonies and misdemeanors,  which serve as a bar to employment in a school district.   You are required to be fingerprinted as part of your application for certification/licensure and upon application for employment.  Thus, if you have committed these offenses it will be discovered.  It is suggested that if you have been convicted of any of the offenses listed, you meet immediately with a professional in the University Counseling Center in the Beeghly College of Education, Beeghly Hall, Room 3305 to determine a course of action.  You would not want to spend four years pursuing a teacher education program in vain.

  1.  murder or aggravated murder

  2.  voluntary or involuntary manslaughter

  3.  assault, felonious assault, aggravated assault

  4.  failure to provide proper care for functionally impaired person

  5.  aggravated menacing

  6.  patient abuse or neglect

  7.  kidnapping, abduction

  8.  child stealing or child enticement

  9.  rape

10.  sexual battery

11.  felonious sexual penetration

12.  sexual imposition or gross sexual imposition

13.  corruption of a minor

14.  importuning

15.  voyeurism

16.  public indecency

17.  prostitution or procuring prostitution

18.  compelling or promoting prostitution

19.  pandering obscenity and/or child pornography

20.  disseminating matter harmful to juveniles

21.  pandering any sexually oriented materials involving or depicting minors

22.  use of minor in nudity oriented materials or performance

23.  robbery or aggravated robbery

24.  burglary or aggravated burglary

25.  unlawful abortion

26.  endangering children

27.  contributing to unruliness or delinquency of child

28.  domestic violence

29.  carrying concealed weapon

30.  having weapon while under disability

31.  discharging firearm at or into a school or residence

32.  corrupting another with drugs

33.  trafficking in drugs

34.  placing harmful objects or substances in food