Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Disorderly Conduct and Inducing Panic, common threats to OCers and public in general

Open carry for sure isn't the only time when you may be threatened with  IP or DC. However since this is a website about open carry we will keep it on topic.

When open carriers are being threatened with being charged or actually charged with false trumped up charges  it's usually Inducing Panic or Disorderly Conduct (think Wisconsin).

So for reference, I'm posting what the ORC actually says each one of these are. You may want to print and carry them as these seem to be used as a catch all trumped up charge when no law is actually being broken. A way to threaten citizens into submission.

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2917.11 2917.11 Disorderly conduct.

(A) No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to another by doing any of the following:
(1) Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
(2) Making unreasonable noise or an offensively coarse utterance, gesture, or display or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person;
(3) Insulting, taunting, or challenging another, under circumstances in which that conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;
(4) Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway, or right-of-way, or to, from, within, or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;
(5) Creating a condition that is physically offensive to persons or that presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2917.31  
2917.31 Inducing panic
(A) No person shall cause the evacuation of any public place, or otherwise cause serious public inconvenience or alarm, by doing any of the following:

(1) Initiating or circulating a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, or other catastrophe, knowing that such report or warning is false;
(2) Threatening to commit any offense of violence;
(3) Committing any offense, with reckless disregard of the likelihood that its commission will cause serious public inconvenience or alarm.

Please use the links provided to read & copy the full text of each.

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