Digital News Report – The Senate Public Safety Committee today passed legislation authored by Sen. George Runner (R-Antelope Valley) that would require all registered sex offenders to register their online addresses with state law enforcement.
Runner called Senate Bill 1204 another tool for law enforcement to use in monitoring some of society’s most dangerous sex offenders, like admitted rapist/murder John Albert Gardner. If the offenders don’t comply with new registration requirements, they risk up to six months in jail, under SB 1204.
“We know where they live and now we will know what web pages, instant messaging names and email addresses they control,” Runner said. “The Internet has become a virtual playground to predators. It makes sense to force convicted sex offenders to share their online addresses with law enforcement.”
Besides registering online addresses, one of the objectives of SB 1204 is to prevent sex offenders from joining Facebook, MySpace and other social networking websites. While on parole, sex offenders can be prohibited from accessing social networking sites. Once parole is completed, however, a sex offender is free to join such sites.
By requiring sex offenders to register their online addresses, SB 1204 not only creates a database for law enforcement but creates a tool, which can be used to remove sexual predators from social networking sites. While the law cannot directly prohibit sex offenders who are no longer on parole from joining, social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have voluntarily purged thousands of registered sex offenders from New York.
As the bill moves forward, Senator Runner is committed to ensuring that online address information collected under SB 1204 may be used to permit social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to voluntarily purge registered sex offenders from the sites.
California will join New York and Illinois in enacting such a law. New York became the bill passed a similar bill in 2008, known as “e-STOP,” which was sponsored by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo said more than 3,500 registered New York sex offenders have been purged from Facebook and MySpace since the bill passed, including a man convicted of assaulting a 14-year-old boy and another man who raped a 2-year-old girl.
John Walsh, co-founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and host of “America’s Most Wanted,” supports New York e-STOP saying last year in a press release that “New York sets the gold standard for other states to follow.”
SB 1204 is supported by statewide law enforcement agencies and associations. It moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee for a vote in the coming weeks.
Is this senator for real? One more thing hindering ex-offenders from having any kind of life. Senator bill 1204. Well I am so glad that I am a Independent voter. What makes Senator Runner think that any of these paroled humans can afford a computer. they can not afford anything, because all these laws are discriminating against a group of people, who merely want to get on with their lives. These laws have in all catergories, rendered this group of discriminated against people totally disabled. Ok, Let them apply for SSDI!!!!!!! Then fathers can afford a computer, one with skyscope to have a teacher parent meeting, because these laws also prevent loving fathers to enter a school for parent teacher night. And what about the little girl or little boy who wanders why daddy can’t take them to school. Where do people come up with these retarded ideas, and believe they will work??? Wrong. Legislator laws like these ones are really hurting the entire family of an ex-offender. Well I hope no-one has to find out just what it is like to have a family member on the registry.
Mr. RUNNER said, “We know where “they” live and now we will know what web pages, instant messaging names and email addresses ‘they’ control,”
‘THEY’ meaning his constituents, the 118,000 free citizens of California! The burdened, branded and titled citizens : being held hostage and under siege for MURDERS ‘THEY’ didn’t commit!
The Catch All, Blame All, Hate All, Destroy All, Abuse of Office this Mr. Runner uses to attack his own constituents with?
Think: Can Mr. Runner and his authoritarian regime’s; hate all, any and everyone who can be titled a sex offender, actually be more dangerous and harmful to US citizens; to OUR children? Is the authoritarian regime’s actions of great prejudice against certain citizens when devising their Hate Laws and Hate List, actually are more harmful, damaging and destructive to the the order of a civil society! They purposely use murders and extreme cases of heinous predators to illustrate the myth that all registrants gathered in their concocted ‘murder laws’ are as harmful, dangerous, predatory and continuing threats to society or children, when the registration policies and laws ‘DO NOT’! The political rhetoric used by Mr. Runner and others to pursue their own agenda to disable our nations, honorable, just, legal and constitutional policies only to form and inflict harsher consequences and destructive attributes under murder laws and registration of sex offenders! These representative must be held accountable for their unlawful, dishonesty and unconstitutional actions, which conflicts with their promise to All America people, especially their oppressed and terrorized constituents!
THINK: ‘THEY’ ALL took, The Oath of Office, to protect ‘ALL’ citizens, ‘THEY’ All took, The Oath of Office to secure ‘ALL’ Americans from terrorist! But, ‘THEY’ continually use their authority and position of office, to act as terrorist against American citizens? ‘THEY’ are Dishonest, dangerous TERRORIST!
The FACT is 118,000+ citizens of California, 704,777+ citizens, all across this nation and millions of their family members and associates are being TERRORIZED, held hostage and under siege; rendered voiceless and defenseless; denied their rights as American citizens, to legal, constitutional, humane and civil representation of government, isn’t it proof enough. Yea, this regime can state it’s not a punishment or unconstitutional to disable and destroy these US constituents ability to function in a civil society. No Law, No Court, No US Representative in this entire nation declared or supports harassment, oppression and danger to be imposed upon any citizen of the US but, ducts, slithers and hides from their responsibility to secure an American citizen’s well being and/or their families well being , This is acceptable?
When will the Time come when those representing and governing our country, Our Supreme Court Justices began to follow America’s standards of laws, act responsible and constitute justice for those oppressed citizens who cry out for TRUTH AND JUSTICE!
It WAS America’s Polices and proud standards; that All American citizens would have civil rights, constitutional, legal and human rights, all citizens promised due process and served individual sanctions upon individual circumstances, when violating a law! All citizens protected by OUR Laws; No man can be forced to the back of the bus, No criminal would suffer penalty for another man’s crime, A citizen is free from their obligations when their debt to society has been satisfied, once freed was entitled the chance to redeem themselves, pay restitution and rebuild his good standing in society and become a law abiding citizen. But, ‘NOW’ in America , if a boy touched a breast, fell in love with someone younger or made a one time mistake of immature judgment that has any element of being sexual in nature; OUR US Representatives “Authoritarian REGIME’, demands once free must register under their Megan’s ‘MURDER’ Law and is titled a sex offender, a predator, based on a murders, he didn’t commit? All laws of justice, rights of liberty, life and any future happiness, any chance of rehabilitation or redemption is removed by the powerful leaders governing this country. A marked man with No right to object, defend or protect himself or his family members from being judged, persecuted and attacked by his own government, vigilantes in society and the thousands of tax exempt anti sex offender organizations greatly profiting by these man made, Hate Laws and Hit lists!
The California Registry states: The California Department of Justice has not considered or assessed the specific risk that any convicted sex offender displayed on this web site will commit another offense or the nature of any future crimes that may be committed.
But, Mr.Antics and personal vendetta towards ‘his’ constituents he doesn’t like will use his power of office to
It was a fact that All American citizens are supposed to have civil rights, constitutional, legal and human rights. No man can be forced to the back of the bus, No criminal should suffer penalty for another man’s crime, A citizen is free from their obligations, when their debt to society has been satisfied, every man deserved a second chance but, in America, if a boy touches a breast, falls in love with someone younger or makes a one time mistake of immature judgment that has any element of being sexual in nature, OUR representatives, demands once free must register under their Megan’s MURDER Law and is titled a predator, based on a murders, he didn’t commit? All laws of justice, rights of liberty, life and any future happiness, any chance of rehabilitation or redemption is removed by the powerful leaders governing this country. A marked man with No right to object, defend or protect himself or his family members from being judged, persecuted and attacked by his own government, vigilantes in society and the thousands of tax exempt anti sex offender organizations greatly profiting by these man made, Hate Laws and Hit lists!
Useless law.
If anyone can create a e-mail / MySpace / Facebook address with false information, how is this law gonna stop that???
“Besides registering online addresses, one of the objectives of SB 1204 is to prevent sex offenders from joining Facebook, MySpace and other social networking websites.”
Many sites (Facebook, MySpace) already ban sex offenders from their sites…so how does this make any difference???
Another posturing politician, another election year.
The ignorant continue to lead the blind.
If only the registry were really focused on the truly dangerous predators. Unfortunately, it does not. The laws are so out of control, the large majority of sexual offenders are not dangerous at all, and most certainly are not dangerous to children.
But, why confuse Mr. Runner and those who think like him with facts. He could look at the Dept. of Justice’s statistics and discover that sex offenders have the lowest rate of recidivism, next to murderers. He could find out that MOST dangerous predators are not on the registry, so tell me HOW does that protect our children more? MOST of the pedophiles are not strangers at all, but more likely to be Uncle Fred or the neighbor down the street who everybody likes.
Please learn the truth about sex offenders and get all these non dangerous ones OFF the registry. It just gives the truly dangerous ones a better place to hide. The police are taxed enough trying to watch the ever growing and very popular registry. Does it work? Think Garrido…..remember he was complying and hiding his dirty deeds for what was it, now..? oh, that’s right….18 years.
But keep coming up with more ways to punish those who should not even be on it…and then they changed the law to make what used to be misdemeanors now felonies, so the appearance of dangerous felons is much worse than it actually is. What a “justice” system.