My question involves criminal law for the state of: Oregon and Ohio
I was convicted in 2001 in the state of Oregon for a Class C Felony of Sex Abuse ll, I was not deemed a sexual violent offender and was not deemed a sexual predator. I was deemed Oregon's lowest classification and required to register for life, register once a year on my birthday or for any move and was not subject to any notifications and was not listed on Oregon's sex offender web site. I completed a sex offender program through Oregon before my probation ended. It has been 11 years since my conviction and it has been 4 years since I have been off of Probation. I was not in trouble before or since. In Oregon once it has been 10 years after my probation, I can petition for relief of registration. When the economy went bad I had a hard time finding a job to take care of me and my family. I was offered a decent job in Ohio and the employer was aware of my situation and fine with it, which is rare. So my family and I moved to Ohio and lived in a hotel till we found a place to live and I started work and registered with Ohio as I was suppose to and sent them all my paperwork from Oregon. In Ohio I am considered Pre AWA and was told they would mirror Oregon. When I went to my appointment that you have to have once you first move into Ohio I was shocked to find that Ohio was classifying me as a Tier lll Offender and a Sexual Predator and that I was required to register for Life and register every 90 days, would be placed on their sex offender web site and subject to Community Notifications. When I asked how that could be since Oregon did not deem me a sexual predator Ohio informed me that the only thing Ohio has to mirror is my registration and since all of Oregon's sex offenders have to register for life that what that equals to in Ohio is a Tier lll Sexual Predator. I asked if there was any way to be released from the sexual predator classification and taken off community notification I was told I could get a lawyer and petition the court. I went to their county office and the lawyer that handles sex offenses told me he had no idea how to go about that and that he was not interested in pursuing it for me. I have contacted two different attorneys and they too say they dont know where to begin since I was not labled a sexual predator in Oregon and only in Ohio, so they dont know how to get relief of this. I am looking for some understanding if it is possible for me to get this classification lifted and how do I go about this and is it legal for Ohio to classify me as such when my conviciting state did not? Also I have found Ohio sex offenders who are Pre AWA who have a charge of Rape and are Tier ll or Tier lll who do not have community notification and was told that was because in their sentencing trials the situation was determined as such. This has caused a hardship for my family as we are having a hard time finding a place to live because once people get the notification they start to pressure our landlord to throw us out. Our current one didnt but has told us when our lease is up we are out of there and not going to be renewed because of this. We are thinking of buying a home to help this sitution but I fear once the neighborhood is notified my family could be in danger. Please Help!!

