OH: What Is a “Place of Employment”? Ohio Supreme Court to Hear Major Registry Due Process Case on June 9
On June 9, 2026, the Ohio Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case asks a simple but important question: What exactly is a “place of employment”?
The case involves a registrant who worked for a cleaning company and was assigned to various job sites as part of his employment. Although he reported his employer, prosecutors argued that a temporary work location constituted a separate “place of employment” that he was required to register. When he failed to do so, he was charged with a felony. The registrant argues that Ohio’s law is unconstitutional because it never clearly defines what a “place of employment” is, leaving people to guess whether the term refers to an employer’s headquarters, a temporary job site, a customer’s property, or somewhere else entirely.
The issues before the Ohio Supreme Court are particularly relevant in Florida, where lawmakers recently expanded employment-reporting requirements under the state’s registry law. While employment reporting may sound straightforward on paper, the reality is far different for many registrants. Because employment opportunities are often limited, many work in industries that involve traveling from location to location throughout the day. They mow lawns, work on construction sites, clean commercial properties, perform maintenance work, flag traffic for road crews, and take other labor-intensive jobs that require them to move between multiple locations.
That raises obvious questions. If a landscaper services ten properties in a single day, is each property a reportable employment location? If a construction worker spends a week at one job site and then moves to another, must the registration be updated every time? If a janitorial employee cleans several businesses each week, are all of those locations considered places of employment? If the answer is yes, compliance quickly becomes an overwhelming burden for people who are simply trying to maintain lawful employment and support themselves.
FAC will be closely following this case.
A copy of the Appellant’s Brief is below:
OH – Employment
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Why don’t we organize a peaceful protest?
I have said this a peaceful protest. Get different stories out. Veterans, disabilities, parents now forced register their kids. All out peaceful demonstration that’s permitted.
MC
Law enforcement would find some way to turn a peaceful protest into a mass arrest event. Then they will go on the news and announce all the arrest they made of non-compliant sexual offenders. And ZERO people will have sympathy for us as we are hauled off to jail.
And do not forget, a registrant protest, even peaceful, would bring out all the vigilantes and counter protestors and then all Hell would break loose. And our side would get the blame for daring to come out from the shadows and show ourselves in mass to the public. And I for one, even if it was peaceful, do not want the news with cameras filming us and people calling us out, saying “Oh I know that creep, he lives on my street”.
That’s a lotta “woulds,” Jack. None of these happened at the Supreme Court vigil.
But I agree that a public protest might not convey the message we intend it to.
To me that’s the game they play scare you. If we obtain the proper permits from the county where the event will be held, there should be no issue moving forward. The key is to ensure that this remains a peaceful demonstration that fully complies with all applicable laws and regulations.
We can also review any local distance or assembly requirements for the location. Demonstrations in front of government buildings are often permitted, provided they are conducted within the approved timeframes and conditions established by local authorities.
Those who are able to travel could register to attend. If the event were to span multiple days, additional considerations such as lodging regulations might come into play. To keep things simple and avoid those complications, it would be best to make this a one-day event.
The purpose of a protest is to draw attention to an issue, much like the No Kings demonstrations have done. What matters is attracting the right kind of attention. If organized properly, this could encourage media outlets to cover the concerns being raised regarding the constitutionality and application of Florida and federal laws affecting registrants.
I do handyman work and work for a moving company. I started my own handyman business as a sole proprietor. AT times I have been told I have to report the names addresses and Phone numbers to my probation. Wouldnt that violate the constitutional rights of my customers? Now I have never reported the names and addresses and phone numbers for that reason. It all seems to depend on which probation officer I have. but it has been mentioned to me before. I do worry that one day I will have to report all this information to the registry. Again to me thats a violation of my customer’s constitutional rights.
You were lucky. In my case, probation had to approve and accept my work. They had very strict rules regarding owning or operating your own business. My probation officer told me that most self-employment requests were not approved.
Keep in mind, this was during community control—which is essentially house arrest under a different name—with a GPS monitor attached at all times.
Ryan
I couldn’t believe this, but when I was on house arrest and then probation, my probation officer gave me lists of places I could work, and she also helped me actually get hired at some of them. Whenever she came into the workplace to check on me, she pretended to be a customer as to not embarrass me.
And yes using AI to help me right now write for on my phone and screen busted also to be concise and flow. Sorry I wanted keep that last statement in there so people know I did
Probation now is a way to try to get people to violate in Florida as what I see so that they can sit there and make you stay longer in the system I know people have said that but I’ve been through probation twice now and in a decade it has changed so much I posted in the board of directors fac post a longer summary of what I went through
While not being a direct violation of your customers rights, it’s a sure way to loose customers. This is a way that they want to trap a registrant in order to send them back to jail.
I do event work. A few years ago I was hired to do an event in Highlands county.
It was a week long event and the pay was awesome. They provided a house for myself and my help to use.
I registered my temporary residence and started the event on Sunday morning. Worked it Sunday night and got spooked the next night due to FAC reports on the county. Tuesday morning I packed my bag and went to register me leaving the temporary residence.
This time the detective was at the registry office rather than me having to register at the jail.
Because I was within the 48hr window he couldn’t arrest me for failing to report the work location.
That being said he redid my registration as a new registration and I had to go through the entire process.
He looked up my name and through an app discovered that I had several internet identifiers Google assigned to me when I got my phone. I knew nothing about these and never heard of the apps they were related to.
Since it was being done as a first time registration and was within 48hrs he couldn’t arrest me for those either.
Long story short, if a registrant enters that county to perform work even a one time delivery you better register it immediately or they will arrest you for it.
Err on the side of caution and register everything. You never know how creative their interpretation will be.
sounds like the Osceola county sheriff detective that said i must stop in every town, city and state and register even when outside the county and state as i was driving truck for bands hauling band gear around the country. he had me arrested i was hauled back to Florida it took a month the transport company brought me back and took me to the county jail on Sunday and Monday Morning they came and got me and said i was being released i had no idea why or how and no one would tell me! i later found out the the state filed a no information or whatever or it was just dropped. i lost my truck, contracts, etc… 8 months later i got back with the bands again and another 4 months go by and that cops partner trumped upped charges 100% lied on a warrant and i was arrested again and brought back this time they kept me in the jail for a few weeks then droped the charges, i never seen the warrant and never seen the details about it until i was going to participate in i think the Does case or some other case here and the lawyer we talked at great length and they got a copy of my arrests and seen the last time it happened and asked me about it and i had no idea what they were talking about with things the cop wrote in that warrant and they sent me a pdf of it. IT WAS 100% A LIE AND I WAS NEVER EVER ARREST FOR THE REALLY TERRABILE AWFUL THINGS THAT THE COP WROTE ON THAT WARRANT JUST TO GET A JUDGE SIGN IT. SO NOW I’LL NEVER GET OFF THE HIT LIST AND NO ONE BOTHERED EVEN LISTING TO ME WHEN I SAID IT WAS A LIE I NEVER DID THOSE THINGS THAT LANDED ME ON THE HIT LIST AND I WAS NEVER A PLAINTIFF IN THE CASE BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED THE LYING COP THAT 100% LIED UNDER OTH TO GET A JUDGE TO SIGN A WARRANT FOR ME!
I was under the impression you only have to register somewhere if you are going to be there for a 24 hour period or longer and are taking lodging somewhere other than your home? Just driving through a town should never cause a registration?
It is getting to the point I am going to just never leave the house and order in food, and essentials and become a recluse. At what point are they rounding us all up and charging us with fake charges. Even if dropped, you have an arrest on file which is goodbye to ever getting off the registry.
And finally, seems Florida is one of the worst places to try and get removed from registration. Even though a judge made a path off, it is still up to a judge to grant it, and few do. And if you lose the case, your money is gone and you are still on the registry. And on a side note, they changed the law again adding more time before we can petition for relief.
Jack, as a longtime Floridian, I think you know that it’s three or more days, not 24 hours.