LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s attorney general is appealing a federal judge’s decision to block the state from putting a 13-year-old boy who moved to Nebraska from Minnesota on Nebraska’s public list of sex offenders.

Suzanne Gage, a spokeswoman for the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, says the case has important ramifications on how Nebraska’s sex offender registry law should be interpreted.

In Nebraska, lawmakers opted to exclude juveniles from the Nebraska Sex Offender Registration Act unless they were prosecuted criminally in adult court.

In his ruling last month, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf said if the boy had done in Nebraska what he did in Minnesota, he would not have been required to register as a sex offender.