Sex Offender Laws Suggested ; E-Mail Registration, Polygraphs Proposed
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RICHMOND, Va. - Officials in two states proposed unusual plans Monday to tighten oversight of convicted sex offenders: Virginia's attorney general wants them to register their e-mail addresses and online IDs, and New York officials want them to take lie-detector tests.
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By Vicky Eckenrode< Morris News Service  ATLANTA - A state senator wants parents to have monitoring privileges and the ability to restrict the access of their children to social networking  Web sites such as MySpace.com and Facebook.com.  Sen.
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U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday proposed requiring sex offenders to register their e-mail and instant messaging addresses with law enforcement authorities in a bid to protect children using popular social Internet sites like MySpace.
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New York officials want sex offenders to provide their Internet identities to the state, which would then share the information with social networking sites like MySpace to protect users from online predators, according to a law proposed Tuesday.
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Faced with legal demands from state attorneys general, MySpace.com said yesterday that it would release information on registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from the social-networking Web site.
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By Ken Dixon, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  May 25--HARTFORD -- The House of Representatives Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would require Connecticut's 4,100 registered sex offenders to submit their e-mail addresses to law enforcement authorities.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law on Friday that would post information on sex offenders on the Internet, giving Californians easier access to details on violators.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed a bill that would require sex offenders to submit e-mail addresses and other online identifiers for inclusion in the Justice Department's National Sex Offender Public Registry.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed  a law on Friday that would post information on sex offenders on  the Internet, giving Californians easier access to details on  violators.
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OTTAWA - The federal government is proposing that DNA samples be collected from people convicted of making child pornography. The Liberals introduced legislation today that would give judges the power to authorize collection of the samples.
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Members of the European Parliament want to see an EU-wide sex offenders register, a survey suggests.
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New York City prosecutors on Tuesday  endorsed the United States' first proposed law to ban  registered sex offenders from social networking sites like  Facebook and MySpace, officials said.
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Plans for more "chemical castrations" will be among measures to crackdown on child sex offenders.
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Details of missing high risk sex offenders could be published on the internet to alert parents.
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Two U.S. senators said on Thursday  they would introduce legislation that would potentially protect  users of popular social networking sites like News Corp's   MySpace from registered sex offenders.
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A bipartisan bill would force sex offenders to provide their e-mail addresses to a national database so MySpace and similar sites could more easily ban them. But the proposal would apply to minor deviants, while exempting some serious offenders. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Connecticut legislators want to force social-networking sites to verify users' ages and lock down parents' permission before minors can post personal profiles. By the Associated Press.