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OH - Sex offender challenges state database

View the article here 02/12/2009 By Dan Horn Federal probation officers are demanding that sex offenders in Ohio register their names with a state database even if the state doesn?t require it. - And how is this legal? A Cincinnati man challenged the practice in a federal lawsuit Wednesday, claiming it was unconstitutional and a waste of taxpayer dollars. The man, identified only as ?John Doe? in the suit, was convicted of sexual battery in 1993 and completed his sentence for that crime in 1997. He currently is on federal probation for a drug offense. The Ohio Justice & Policy Center sued on the offender?s behalf after his probation officer ordered him to place his name on Ohio?s registry of sex offenders, even though the state exempts him from the database because he served his sentence before the registry law took effect in the late 1990s...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).