Senate Approves Sexual Predator Registry
An AP newswire report, via Yahoo! News:
The Senate voted Thursday to set up a national sex offender database that would be available on the Internet and require strict monitoring of high-risk sex offenders for a year after their release from prison.
The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (news, bio, voting record), D-N.D., is known as "Dru's Law" for Dru Sjodin, a 22-year-old University of North Dakota student who was abducted from a shopping mall and killed in 2003.
Senators approved the bill by voice vote. An identical version is pending in the House Judiciary Committee.
posted by Fergie @ 7/28/2005 06:16:00 PM
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