WAVE 3 TV Louisville, KY | AG asks Supreme Court to rule on sex offender law
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FRANKFORT, KY (AP) — Attorney General Jack Conway is asking 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 recently denied Conway's request to suspend its own ruling while he appeals to the federal supreme court.
The state court ruled Oct. 1 that Kentucky's sex offender law, passed in 2006, was unconstitutional because it also applied to sex offenders who were convicted before the law was on the books. The law barred sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, daycare centers, playgrounds and other places where children congregate.
Conway has until Dec. 30 to file a motion seeking the federal court's review, a move he says he'll do.
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