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NY AG Gets Social Networking Sites To Ban More Sex Offenders

By Corey Rayburnyung

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has a press release touting how 13 new social networking sites have agreed to remove NY sex offenders from their sites. From the press release:As of today, 15 major social networking companies have agreed to use New York?s Electronic Securing and Targeting of Online Predators Act (e-STOP), authored by Cuomo, to purge registered sex offenders from their sites. The law requires all registered sex offenders to register their email accounts, screen names and any other Internet identifiers with the state Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). That information is then made available to social networking sites. Several other companies continue to ignore this critical measure to make the Internet safer.?It is no secret that sexual predators abuse social networking Web sites to find and manipulate victims and to insinuate themselves into their victims? lives,? said Attorney General Cuomo...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).