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Protect Your Voting Address

Overview

(R.C. 149.45 and R.C. 149.43)

As an Ohio public safety professional, you have the right to keep your residential address—and your family’s—confidential. The Shielding Ohio’s Protectors program removes home addresses from public records, including voter rolls.

Who’s Eligible

(R.C. 149.43(A)(7))

The following professionals and their family members may shield their personal information from public records:

  • Assistant prosecuting attorneys

  • Bailiffs

  • BCI investigators

  • Board of Pharmacy employees

  • Correctional employees (state, county, or local)

  • County or multicounty corrections officers

  • Designated Ohio National Guard members

  • Emergency services telecommunicators

  • EMS medical directors

  • EMS cooperating physician advisory board members

  • EMTs

  • Federal law enforcement officers

  • Firefighters

  • Forensic mental health providers

  • Magistrates

  • Mental health evaluation providers

  • Parole officers

  • Peace officers

  • Probation officers

  • Protective services workers

  • Regional psychiatric hospital employees

  • Youth services employees

Former designated public service workers with at least 5 years of qualifying service may also shield their personal information.

What the Program Does

  • Removes home addresses of eligible individuals (and family members) from publicly accessible records, including voter registration lists.

  • Limits public exposure of sensitive residential information for safety and privacy.

How to Apply (Voter File Redaction)

  1. Get the Form - Obtain the Request to Redact Address form from the Ohio Attorney General’s office.

  2. Complete Securely - Fill out the form on a safe, personal computer.

  3. Save Your Form - Click the floppy disk “Save” icon (or use your PDF viewer’s save option) to store the completed document on your device.

  4. Submit to Your County Board of Elections - Find your county board of elections and email the completed form to the address they provide.

    • Email subject line: “Request to Redact Address”.

Important Notes

  • Each family member must apply separately (e.g., spouse, children), even if you share the same address.

  • This redaction only removes your address from voter rolls maintained by your county board of elections.

  • Other websites or organizations that publish address information are not automatically updated—you must contact them directly.