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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | March 8, 2013 03:35 PM |
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| From: | Representative Steven J. Santarsiero |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Reintroduce HB 605 of 2011-Pennsylvania Kids Act (Protecting Children Online from Convicted Sex Offenders) |
| In the near future, I will be re-introducing former HB 605 of 2011 that would protect children from sex offenders or sexually violent predators online. The Pennsylvania Kids Act would require convicted sex offenders and sexually violent predators to register with the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) any online identities and Internet accounts they might have, including e-mail addresses, personal websites, online community memberships, and chat room aliases. The PSP would be required to maintain this information in a searchable database and allow social networking websites, such as MySpace and Facebook, to match identifying information with that of their customers. The websites would then be permitted to block access to such websites by those offenders found in the PSP database. The bill would also allow a judge to limit the use of the Internet by a registered sex offender whose crime was committed on the Internet, or if Internet use is determined to be an activity leading to the commission of the crime for which the offender was convicted. The use would be limited to online employment-related searches and the offender would be subject to periodic computer inspections and required to install key logging devices at the offender’s expense. As a father and former teacher, I understand the educational value of using the Internet in the classroom and at home. And as the Internet grows and online communities become more popular, sexual predators are free to use this virtually unregulated technology to prey on children and other unsuspecting individuals. Just as we monitor a sex offenders’ physical home address, we now must monitor his online address and presence. Please join me in co-sponsoring this important legislation. |
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Introduced as HB1233