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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 May 2008 01:01 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:52
Finally, state and local Democrats are starting to get the gig on sex offenders. It only took how long? From Newsday.com:
The 25,000 sex offenders registered in New York now will have to report their online identities to the state, in a new effort to safeguard children using social networking sites.
A law signed yesterday by Gov. David A. Paterson targets sexual predators using the Internet, by including their online personas in information they are required to report.
“The Internet has become a playground for sexual predators,” said Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre), the author of Megan’s Law, the state’s first sex offender registry law enacted in 1995. He called the new law “an important step that will help prevent dangerous sex offenders from hiding behind a veil of anonymity and preying upon our children online.”