Ohio bill would compel online education resource providers to police ‘obscene’ materials

By: Susan Tebben

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: March 11, 2026

Words: 823

Last Updated: 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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A new Ohio bill seeks to regulate some of the companies who provide online resources for the state’s public schools and libraries. Republican lawmakers leading the bill claim “inappropriate” content has been leaking through.

Ohio House Bill 583 would target the two vendors used for online information databases in a majority of public schools and libraries, called InfOhio and the Ohio Web Library (OWL), establishing “safety policy and technology protection measure requirements” for those …

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