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OH - Appeals court upholds sex offender registration law

View the article here 04/21/2009 By JEFF GREEN AKRON ? The 9th District Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a state sex offender registration and notification law that is being challenged by four Lorain County men. The men argued the Adam Walsh Act is unconstitutional as applied retroactively to those who were first classified under an earlier version of the law. The new law, which took affect last year, automatically classifies offenders in one of three tiers by their crime without considering the likelihood of whether they would reoffend. The law applies retroactively to offenders, many of whom were nearly finished with their reporting requirements under the old law. Ruling on a lawsuit from _____, _____, _____ and _____, a visiting judge deemed that the law's residency restrictions ? prohibiting offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school ? are unconstitutional...continue to full post

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