Bill Expands Monitoring of Sex Offenders
An AP newswire article by Jim Abrams, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Congress would create a national Web site for child sex offenders and sex felons would face up to 20 years in prison for failing to comply with registration requirements under far-reaching legislation the House took up Wednesday.
The measure, which also requires felony sex offenders to register for life and authorizes the death penalty for sex crimes resulting in the killing of a child, responds to what House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said was a "national crisis" in child sex offenses. He said that of some 550,000 convicted sex offenders in the nation, 100,000 are "lost," with their whereabouts unknown.
Sensenbrenner said the legislation, certain to pass the House, would get favorable treatment in the Senate and he expected it to be signed into law by the end of the year.
The White House, in a statement, expressed support, saying that even though sex crimes against children have declined significantly in recent years, more needs to be done. It noted that the legislation codified the online National Sex Offender Public Registry that the Justice Department launched earlier this year.
posted by Fergie @ 9/14/2005 11:58:00 AM
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