ILLINOIS's APPROACH TOWARDS SEXUAL PREDATORS

Illinois Approach's Sexual Predators

Illinois Approach's Sexual Predators

Introduction

Illinois recently enacted changes to a law to make the use of social networking sites by registered sex offenders. The intent behind this law is easy to understand. We need to address public safety in the face of sharply increasing numbers of registered sex offenders. The issue is how best to accomplish this. Unfortunately, this law fails to consider fundamental distinctions between what constitutes a social network, how this law balances the punishments meted to sex offenders vs. other types of serious online criminals, the problematic issues ...