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by Trench on April 4th, 2007

MySpace and Kentucky Sex Offenders:
Put Kentucky down as another state that is deluded into thinking that sex offenders are going to comply with registering their online identities.

Tuesday afternoon at the capital rotunda, the state met with a MySpace official to put an end to this ongoing problem with the help of a new measure called Senate Bill 65.

The new law, requires sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses on-line.

However if a sex offenders gives authorities a fraudulent e-mail address they will be sent back to jail.

The new law will also help sites like MySpace cross reference Kentuckys sex offender registry with their own data base.

I hate to sound like a broken record, or a skipping CD for that matter, but this law is all bark and no bite. This will not stop sex offenders from using fraudulent e-mails. The threat of jail rarely stops sex offenders as it is. And again this does nothing about the sex offenders that have never been caught.

Instead of making laws about MySpace how about making laws that keep sex offenders in jail longer?

Thanks to Jessica for the link.

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