My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Ohio
Hi, new to the forum. I made this post in a different forum and didn't get much help, so I'm going to copy/paste it here:
Quick background on the topic. My roommate was bored at work and came across the site www.familywatchdog.us... when he came home later he showed it to me. You can type in your address and see just about all the registered sex offenders (or people who have made similar offenses) in your area. It also gives a description of the offense and description of what they look like and pic (if it's on file). Anyway, so he zooms in on our exact address and realizes that a registered sex offender is living upstairs from our apartment. Now, we don't live in some large apartment complex or anything... this is just a house broken down into 1 large apartment on the first floor (ours) and 2 smaller apartments upstairs. We're apt. A, and the offender is upstairs in apt. C. Suffice it to say we were pretty surprised/sickened/pissed to find out some rapist was living just feet away from us, and hand been all year without our knowledge. By the way, we go to Ohio State and live just off campus... and the offender is a 48 year old, single black man that has lived there for a couple years (not sure if any of that is relevant). The website also doesn't say when he committed this crime.
This brings me to the point of the post. Should we have been notified by our landlord and/or authorities before we signed our lease that a sex offender would be living upstairs? I don't know the exact law on this issue, but I think we should be allowed to know information like that. It's also aggravating because there are 2 girls living upstairs, and I'm sure they don't know he's living just in the other room.
Thoughts?

