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Sponsors say Ohio needs broader hate-crime law to address terrorizing and civil remedies
Summary
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing, sponsors of House Bill 306 urged lawmakers to expand Ohio law to criminalize terrorizing based on protected characteristics and to create civil remedies for victims, while lawmakers pressed on burdens of proof and overlap with other bills.
Representatives sponsoring House Bill 306 told the House Judiciary Committee that Ohio’s existing ethnic-intimidation statutes do not fully address modern, bias-motivated harassment and violence and that the bill would close gaps by defining ‘terrorizing’ and adding civil remedies.
One sponsor described a constituent who was harassed and followed after reporting an incident, saying the bill would “bring coherence and consequence” by prohibiting terrorizing conduct motivated by race, religion, disability, political affiliation and other protected characteristics and by allowing victims to seek…
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