State ex rel. Matz v. Brown (1988), 37 Ohio St.3d 279, 525 N.E.2d 805, addressed the constitutionality of a statute that prevented persons convicted of a felony within the past ten years from receiving compensation under the Victims of Crime Act. The Court rejected the relator's "retroactivity" contention, concluding that, "Except with regard to constitutional protections against ex post facto laws, no claim of which is made here, felons have no reasonable right to expect that their conduct will never thereafter be made the subject of legislation." Matz, 37 Ohio St.3d at 281-82. The Court recognized that there were "important public policy reasons for so holding. For example, if relator's theory were to prevail no person convicted of abusing children could be prevented from school employment by a later law excluding such persons from that employment." Id. at 282.