Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2008″ was approved yesterday by President Bush. The bill requires registered sex offenders to provide their e-mail addresses to a national database which is then made available to social networking sites. This is great news and will help clean up social networking sites.
We must keep in this in perspective in that probation and parole officers must increase their vigilance in overseeing registered sex offenders online activities. It is to easy for anyone to sign up for a free email account. So, a registered sex offender simply reports an email address as required by law. That email is reported to the social networking sites to make sure the person doesn't have a social network site. The bad part is that the offender can sign up for another email account and join any social network site.
We need to make sure that the probation/parole officers are provided the tools, knowledge, and time to do a scan of the computers the offenders have access to for additional email accounts and online activity.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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