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Ohio Adam Walsh Act Violates Separation of Powers Doctrine
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2011, page 48
Provisions of Ohio’s Adam Walsh Act (AWA) that require the reclassification of sex offenders by the Ohio Attorney General violate the separation of powers doctrine, the Ohio Supreme Court decided on June 3, 2010.In 2006, Congress passed the federal Adam Walsh Act. The federal AWA requires states to adopt ...
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