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OH - Deters hopes to evict sex offender

View the article here 02/01/2009 By Kimball Perry Convicted sex offender _____ was forced to move from his family's Delhi Township home three years ago because it was too close to a day-care center. Now, after a court victory this week on the issue, _____ could be allowed to move back to Woody Hill Drive. "We have four weeks to appeal," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said. "We will look into that." A 1997 Ohio law change required sex offenders to begin registering their address with the sheriff in the county where they live. Another law, passed in 2003, prohibited sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools. That law, aimed at protecting children from sex offenders, was amended in 2005 to allow prosecutors to sue to have the offenders evicted if they lived too close to schools or day cares...continue to full post

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