A new Ohio law named for a Clark County sheriff’s deputy who was fatally shot by a mentally ill man puts the state in compliance with federal regulations proposed last week to keep mentally ill people from buying guns, the office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said on Tuesday.
The “Deputy Suzanne Hopper Act” requires that courts let local law enforcement agencies know if a person being evaluated or treated for a mental illness is found guilty of a violent offense, or if a person found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity has been released into the community. Police must then enter the information into a national database where other law enforcement agencies can access it.
DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney said the law that became effective on Jan. 1 makes Ohio “already in compliance with the new requirements within the rules proposed by the Administration last week.”
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