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Indiana Sex Offender Residency Restriction Violates Ex Post Facto Clause
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2009, page 44
Indiana’s “residency restriction statute,” which prohibits sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school, youth center or public park, violates the ex post facto clause of the state constitution as applied to sex offenders convicted before the law’s enactment, the Indiana Supreme Court held on June 30, 2009. ...
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