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Disqualifying Offenses


          This list of Disqualifying Offenses was developed from Ohio Senate Bill 187 and as part of SAY's volunteer screening criteria and is applicable for all SAY
          Areas and Districts. Areas should also be aware of the laws pertaining to the state in which they reside.

          While this list will be the de-facto guide used by SAY in determining what action is to be taken in regards to the results of the applicants background
          check, other factors may also be considered; such as the laws of a particular state in which the applicant resides, and mitigating circumstances.


          Examples of Disqualifying Offenses

•  Aggravated murder

•  Murder

•  Voluntary manslaughter

•  Involuntary manslaughter

•  Felonious assault

•  Aggravated assault

•  Assault

•  Failing to provide for a functionally              impaired person

•  Aggravated menacing

•  Patient abuse; neglect

•  Kidnapping

•  Abduction

•  Criminal child enticement

•  Rape

•  Sexual Battery

•  Unlawful sexual conduct with a minor

•  Gross sexual imposition

•  Sexual imposition

•  Importuning

•  Voyeurism

•  Placing harmful objects in food or              confection

•  Felonious sexual penetration

•  Drug abuse beyond minor drug                  possession
 •  Illegal administration or distribution of          anabolic steroids

•  Funding of drug or marijuana trafficking

•  Compelling prostitution

•  Promoting prostitution

•  Procuring

•  Prostitution; after positive HIV test

•  Disseminating (obscene) matter
   harmful to juveniles

•  Pandering obscenity

•  Pandering obscenity involving a minor

•  Pandering sexually oriented matter
    involving a minor

•  Illegal use of minor in nudity-oriented
   material or performance

•  Aggravated robbery

•  Robbery

•  Aggravated burglary

•  Burglary

•  Unlawful abortion

•  Endangering children

•  Contributing to unruliness or
   delinquency of a child

  • Domestic violence

•  Carrying concealed weapons

•  Having weapons while under disability

•  Improperly discharging firearm at or 
   into habitation; school-related offenses.

•  Corrupting another with drugs

•  Trafficking in drugs

•  Illegal manufacture of drugs or
   cultivation of marijuana

• Public indecency