Kentucky Asks Supreme Court To Review Sex Offender Law

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12-23-2009 Kentucky:

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend the Kentucky Supreme Court's recent ruling which loosened restrictions on where convicted sex offenders may live.

Kentucky's high court ruled in October that the state's sex offender law, passed in 2006, was unconstitutional because it also applied to sex offenders whose convictions predated the law's enactment. The state high court recently denied Conway's request to suspend its own ruling while he appeals to the federal Supreme Court.

The law barred sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, daycare centers, playgrounds and other places where children congregate.

Kentucky State Police estimate about 5,500 offenders were affected by the law. ..Source.. WLKY.com