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KY High Court Denies Stay In Residency Restrictions Challenge

By Corey Rayburnyung

In October, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a state law prohibiting sex offenders from living near schools, playgrounds, and day care centers could not be applied retroactively, to those convicted before the enactment of the law. On Monday, the Court rejected a request to stay the ruling. From The Courier-Journal: Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway asked that the ruling be stayed, but that request was rejected in a brief order from the court on Monday.Allison Martin, a spokeswoman for Conway's office, said the office now will ask the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay to review the Kentucky high court's ruling. She said the office has until Dec. 30 to file its request with the nation's high court.The Kentucky Department of Corrections released a statement saying that because Monday's ruling by the Kentucky Supreme Court is a final order, probation and parole officers are being notified that sex offenders who committed their crimes prior to July 12, 2006, are no longer subject to the residency restrictions of the 2006 law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 07, 2009 (boomark / email).