July 2, 2024, Press Release from the Office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost: (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — A grant program designed to enhance the accuracy and completeness of the state’s criminal-records repository will pay for 77 new devices that courts across Ohio will use to capture defendants’ fingerprints for submission to the database, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today. Ohio law requires the Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) to maintain the state’s Computerized Criminal History (CCH), a database of fingerprints and criminal records based on information supplied by 200+ courts statewide as their cases conclude. These records are relied upon for criminal investigations; prosecutorial charges; sentencing decisions; correctional supervision and release; and background checks for those applying for licenses or firearms purchases, and those who work with children, older Ohioans or people with disabilities.