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New federal sex offender law (with Senator McCain's imprint?)

By Douglas A. Berman

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Earlier this week President Bush signed into law two new statutes aimed at sex offenders. This official press statement from the White House provides a summary of the new laws:On Monday, October 13, 2008, the President signed the following bills into law: S. 431, the "Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2008" or the "KIDS Act of 2008," which requires: sex offenders to provide Internet identifiers, including e-mail addresses, to State sex offender registries; and tasks the Justice Department to establish and maintain a system that allows social networking websites to compare Internet identifiers of its users with those provided to the National Sex Offender Registry; S. 1738, the "PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008," which requires the Department of Justice to create and implement a National Strategy for Child Exploitation, Prevention, and Interdiction; statutorily establishes the existing Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program; and makes other amendments to Federal child pornography laws...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 15, 2008 (boomark / email).