Vehicle registration forms will drop home address

Vehicle registration forms will drop home address

Special to The Vindicator

COLUMBUS

Ohio’s vehicle-registration forms, often kept in glove compartments to provide on request to law enforcement, no longer will include owners’ home addresses, under legislation recently signed into law by Gov. Ted Strickland.

The governor’s action came after the Ohio House and Senate approved House Bill 50, sponsored by Rep. John Domenick, a Democrat from Smithfield.

The legislation was offered after an incident in central Ohio in which a man stole a car and used address information he found in the vehicle to drive to the owner’s home, where he killed a woman and kidnapped a youngster.

The new law requires the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles to provide a supplemental portion to vehicle-registration paperwork that does not include home-address information.

The supplemental portion can then be kept in vehicles, “without the fear that their personal information could be stolen,” according to Lindsey Bohrer, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

The new registration forms will be available in early September.