KY Requiring Criminals to Disclose Online Identities: Yeah Right.

The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office is scrutinizing criminals’ use of online space to see if it violates terms of criminals’ parole, citing concerns about potential encounters that use social networks. MySpace released information Thursday about registered sex offenders who had accounts with the site. The attorney general’s office has not released any information about who the 68 people are or where they live.

In April, Attorney General Stumbo held a press conference about the new Kentucky law requiring the state’s 6,245 registered sex offenders to register their “electronic mail addresses and any instant messaging, chat, or other Internet communication name identities” with the Kentucky State Police Sex Offender Registry (Senate Bill 65 sponsored by Senator Ray Jones II of Pikeville). The new law allows online companies, including social networking sites, to cross-check its members against the KSP Sex Offender Registry. Kentucky is one of six states, along with Arizona, New York, South Dakota, West Virginia and Virginia, that require sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses or other online identities with the state.

Good luck Mr. Stumbo. I hate what some of these creeps do as much as anyone, but this one is going to be pretty tough to do anything about., I wonder how in the world this will be enforced. One can drive through any neighborhood in Lexington and join 3-4 open networks from your car on a laptop in the space of half an hour. The best solution is always going to be with the parents.

So why don’t we quick pretending to be high-tech whiz kid politicians and spend that money on dealing with root causes of the behavior itself, educating parents on the issues, and teaching families how to secure their Wifi?

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