COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Monday appealed a U.S. District judge’s permanent ruling last month to allow children to use various social media apps without parental consent.
It’s all part of the state’s hot-button Social Media Parental Notification Act that Yost and others had hoped would require parents to approve their children’s use of various social media platforms.
Judge Algenon L. Marbley struck down Yost’s bid to enforce the law last month, writing that “this Court lauds the State’s effort through the Act to protect the children of this state. This Court finds, however, that the Act as drafted fails to pass constitutional muster and is constitutionally infirm.”
Several states have passed similar legislation. Ohio’s law was approved in 2023 and scheduled to take effect in January 2024, but Marbley issued a preliminary injunction blocking it back then.
His ruling in April was considered a final decision, but now with Yost’s action Monday — which was expected — the case will be reviewed by the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
