Judge rejects challenge to sex offender law

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A federal judge on Monday threw out a challenge to an Ohio law barring sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school.
Without getting to the merits of the case, U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith ruled that none of the plaintiffs had legal standing because none lived within 1,000 feet of a school and had not been injured by the law.
In 2003, Ohio banned registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of school property. At the time, only landlords, neighbors or schools could seek eviction of an offender violating that requirement.
An amendment that went into effect this year gave legal officials in counties, municipalities and townships the authority to pursue eviction proceedings against offenders who lived within 1,000 feet of school property.