Whast we see here is a State AG very upset implying that, those who will not have to be reclassified according to the Adam Walsh way, will not be covered by Ohio's sex offender laws. In fact he is wrong, he forgets that they will just go back to being classified as they were before the law, and their classifications will not change. We cannot forget, the AWA way is to make registrants LOOK WORSE than they were determined to be by judges, now that will not happen in Ohio. The implications in the video are plain wrong!7-14-2011 Ohio:
26,000 sex offenders in Ohio will not have to abide by tougher monitoring guidelines after a decision made by the Ohio Supreme Court Wednesday.
According to the decision which was made 5 – 2, sex offenders in Ohio cannot be subjected to stricter monitoring of their whereabouts if they committed their crimes before 2007.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says the decision puts the status of those sex offenders in real question.
“We've got to scramble,” said DeWine. “We've got to go back and see what we can do and it's imperative that we do it very quickly.”
He says the decision made by the Ohio Supreme Court is pretty straightforward.
“Some people, for example under the old law, had to register for ten years. New law came along and said ‘no, that's not long enough, you've got to register for the rest of your life,’” said DeWine. “Supreme court says you can't do that."
Within a two mile radius of Pat Lawrence's Clintonville home, there are three sex offenders. All of whom will be impacted by this decision.
“I just don't think it's right really,” said Lawrence. “I think it should apply to people that committed them back in the eighties. If you did, you should have to register especially if it’s against a child or something.”
DeWine says he isn't surprised by the decision.
The question now though is where do they go from here?
He says he has plans to meet with the state legislature to find out what can be done.
“We do need to go back and make sure they (sex offenders) are covered some way so that these people are not just out without any law covering them at all,” said DeWine. “It is what it is and we have to live with it and we may not like it, but we have to live with it and we'll go back and do what we can do to protect Ohio families.”
Even with this decision, DeWine says he believes a vast majority of sex offenders would still be covered in some way and would still have to register. ..Source.. by Tom Brockman
