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Okla. removes 2,400 registered sex offenders after Supreme Court ruling

Oklahoma has removed 2,400 sex offenders from its registry since a state Supreme Court decision six months ago

By Lori Fullbright

News on 6

TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma has removed 2,400 sex offenders from its registry since a state Supreme Court decision six months ago.

The legislature passed a law in 2007 increasing the number of years sex offenders have to register and it was applied to people already convicted, but the Oklahoma Supreme Court said the law could only apply to people going forward.

When I was in the sex offender registration office, I met a man who was crying because he’d just learned he no longer has to register.

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