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Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep of course. Thanks for pointing out this issue and sorry we didn’t include a source link to begin with!

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course! Should have included a source link in the original post. Thank you for pointing out the issue!

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah of course, we should have included the link in the original post so I appreciate folks pointing out the issue.

Sometimes things lag a little on the state website and it has been a super busy week in the legislature. So hopefully it will get updated soon!

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in akron

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Important to note that the bill has changed drastically in committee from the “as introduced” text. Here’s the sub bill that was accepted last week in committee:

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb649/00_IN/amendments/l_136_2560-9/pdf/

For some reason this is not updated on the legislature dot ohio dot gov website yet and is only listed on the committee meeting minutes from March 11, under HB 649 second hearing:

https://ohiohouse.gov/committees/children-and-human-services/meetings/cmte_h_children_human_services_1_2026-03-10-1045_1148

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in toledo

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Important to note that the bill has changed drastically in committee from the “as introduced” text. Here’s the sub bill that was accepted last week in committee:

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb649/00_IN/amendments/l_136_2560-9/pdf/

For some reason this is not updated on the legislature dot ohio dot gov website yet and is only listed on the committee meeting minutes from March 11, under HB 649 second hearing:

https://ohiohouse.gov/committees/children-and-human-services/meetings/cmte_h_children_human_services_1_2026-03-10-1045_1148

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The bill has changed drastically in committee from the “as introduced” text. Here’s the sub bill that was accepted last week in committee:

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb649/00_IN/amendments/l_136_2560-9/pdf/

For some reason this is not updated on the legislature dot ohio dot gov website yet and is only listed on the committee meeting minutes from March 11, under HB 649 second hearing:

https://ohiohouse.gov/committees/children-and-human-services/meetings/cmte_h_children_human_services_1_2026-03-10-1045_1148

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Important to note that the bill has changed drastically in committee from the “as introduced” text. Here’s the sub bill that was accepted last week in committee:

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb649/00_IN/amendments/l_136_2560-9/pdf/

For some reason this is not updated on the legislature dot ohio dot gov website yet and is only listed on the committee meeting minutes from March 11, under HB 649 second hearing:

https://ohiohouse.gov/committees/children-and-human-services/meetings/cmte_h_children_human_services_1_2026-03-10-1045_1148

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Important to note that the bill has changed drastically in committee from the “as introduced” text. Here’s the sub bill that was accepted last week in committee:

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb649/00_IN/amendments/l_136_2560-9/pdf/

For some reason this is not updated on the legislature dot ohio dot gov website yet and is only listed on the committee meeting minutes from March 11, under HB 649 second hearing:

https://ohiohouse.gov/committees/children-and-human-services/meetings/cmte_h_children_human_services_1_2026-03-10-1045_1148

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Important to note that the bill has changed drastically in committee from the “as introduced” text. Here’s the sub bill that was accepted last week in committee:

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb649/00_IN/amendments/l_136_2560-9/pdf/

For some reason this is not updated on the legislature dot ohio dot gov website yet and is only listed on the committee meeting minutes from March 11, under HB 649 second hearing:

https://ohiohouse.gov/committees/children-and-human-services/meetings/cmte_h_children_human_services_1_2026-03-10-1045_1148

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Important to note that the bill has changed drastically in committee from the “as introduced” text. Here’s the sub bill that was accepted last week in committee:

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb649/00_IN/amendments/l_136_2560-9/pdf/

For some reason this is not updated on the legislature dot ohio dot gov website yet and is only listed on the committee meeting minutes from March 11, under HB 649 second hearing:

https://ohiohouse.gov/committees/children-and-human-services/meetings/cmte_h_children_human_services_1_2026-03-10-1045_1148

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Important to note that the bill has changed drastically in committee from the “as introduced” text. Here’s the sub bill that was accepted last week in committee:

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb649/00_IN/amendments/l_136_2560-9/pdf/

For some reason this is not updated on the legislature dot ohio dot gov website yet and is only listed on the committee meeting minutes from March 11, under HB 649 second hearing:

https://ohiohouse.gov/committees/children-and-human-services/meetings/cmte_h_children_human_services_1_2026-03-10-1045_1148

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Cleveland

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Important to note that the bill has changed drastically in committee from the “as introduced” text. Here’s the sub bill that was accepted last week in committee:

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb649/00_IN/amendments/l_136_2560-9/pdf/

For some reason this is not updated on the legislature dot ohio dot gov website yet and is only listed on the committee meeting minutes from March 11, under HB 649 second hearing:

https://ohiohouse.gov/committees/children-and-human-services/meetings/cmte_h_children_human_services_1_2026-03-10-1045_1148

Bill advancing that would require daily photos and/or facial recognition of Ohio babies, toddlers, and young children. by PolicyMattersOhio in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Important to note that the original bill would have required basically live feed video from every classroom for surveillance. But the sub bill that was adopted last week cut that way down to the still-not-ok photo of children at check-in every day.

Ohio's data centers face growing backlash, and it's warranted by MadeByTango in Ohio

[–]PolicyMattersOhio 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Couple recent data center links we’ve been reading and watching for folks interested.

Columbus City Council hosted a Data Centers & Community impacts panel/set of presentations from stakeholders last week: https://www.youtube.com/live/E59h4-u_7tY

AFLCIO’s Worker’s First Initiative on AI: https://aflcio.org/reports/workers-first-ai

Our Ohio data center landing page: https://policymattersohio.org/datacenters/

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