By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS - The state's sex predator law doesn't always require all offenders convicted of sex crimes to register with police, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
The justices ruled 7-0 in the case of two Cuyahoga County men convicted of unrelated sex crimes in the 1970s.
More than two decades later, the two men were ruled sex predators under Ohio's 1997 Megan's Law, which requires those offenders to register with police and in some cases notify neighbors.
The state Supreme Court agreed with the men's arguments that they did not fall under the law's three requirements for registering.
The requirements are: being convicted of a sexually oriented offense or being sentenced for a sexually oriented offense after July 1, 1997, or being labeled a habitual sex offender before July 1997 who is required to register with police.
The attorney general's office had no immediate comment.
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