From the Missoulian:

The two men running to be Montana’s next attorney general have recently announced plans aimed at protecting children, particularly in an age of Internet predators.

Republican Tim Fox’s plan focuses specifically on Internet predators and the state’s sexual and violent offender registry, which he has said is inadequate.

Democrat Steve Bullock’s plan also addresses the offender registry and Internet predators, but includes an expansion of the pilot project “Children’s Justice Center” to better coordinate prosecution of all crimes against children.

Fox’s plan has several main points:

He would seek to make it illegal for a person to “groom” a child over the Internet for the purposes of later victimizing the child. For example, Fox would seek to outlaw adults misrepresenting themselves as children or otherwise trying to gain the trust of a child through social networking Web sites like Facebook or Myspace.

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