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Ohio Senate Approves Retroactive Residency Restrictions

By Corey Rayburnyung

The Ohio House will now consider a bill prohibiting sex offenders from living near schools or places where children congregate. The bill, which today passed in the Senate 30-0, will apply retroactively. From MSNBC:The Ohio Senate has passed a bill to prevent sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools or day care facilities even if they committed their crimes before passage of a state law prohibiting such residency.The Senate voted 30-0 Tuesday in response to a 2008 Ohio Supreme Court decision that says the sex offender residency law could not be applied retroactively. The Legislature enacted the law in 2003.The court said the law was vague and that it could not determine that lawmakers wished to make it apply to sex offenders who committed their crimes before the residency law was enacted...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).