COLUMBUS — The Ohio Supreme Court says the state’s strict 2007 sex offender notification law can’t be imposed on defendants whose crimes were committed before the law was enacted.
Wednesday’s 5-2 decision comes a little more than a year after the state’s highest court ruled the law’s tougher monitoring did not apply to those convicted before the law took effect.
Ohio was the first state to substantially put in place a new sex offender registration and notification system required by the 2006 federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, named for a Florida boy abducted and killed in 1981.
The state Supreme Court says applying the law against earlier crimes violates the state Constitution’s prohibition on retroactive laws. The ruling reverses a lower court’s decision.
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