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This week on "The State of Ohio": A twist in the campaign for governor -the GOP goes after the Democratic governor for his Wall Street connections. A new report says the state spends hundreds of millions of dollars locking up low level offenders for sentences that are too short for rehabilitation, but long enough to give them time to learn from experienced criminals. There's a huge budget deficit on the horizon, but the Department of Education has requested nearly a billion dollars more money in the next budget. The state school superintendent explains.
And the 2010 Ohio State Fair is open, and it brings a colossal honor for a former chief executive - all this week in "The State of Ohio".
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| Sexting" could mean big penalties for minors under Ohio law, so lawmaker wants to change it. |
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By Karen Kasler - March 24, 2009 |
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A lawmaker from southwest Ohio wants teenagers to think before they send nude pictures over their cell phones. State representative Ron Maag wants to deal with the teenage trend called "sexting", but he says current law could allow kids who create or send nude pictures of themselves or their friends to face the same charges as pedophiles do under Ohio's child pornography law. |
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Rep. Ron Maag with Karen Kasler (:33) 
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Rep. Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) (:15)
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| The law would affect only minors who send and create nude pictures of other minors. Adults are still subject to the child pornography law. It would make creating, exchanging and saving a nude picture of a minor through a telecommunications device by a minor a first degree misdemeanor, rather than a felony. But the law still allows prosecutors to pursue harsher penalties if they choose. "Sexting" has been a big concern of school officials, especially since an 18 year old Cincinnati girl committed suicide because of the harassment she received after her ex-boyfriend sent out nude pictures of herself she'd sent to him. |
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