The New Year brings tougher restrictions for Georgia’s sex offenders. All 16,000 of them will have to hand over their internet passwords, screen names and e-mail addresses starting tomorrow. The new law is a big hit with some.
Michelle Rogers: “I think its great to protect young people. I work with high school and middle school students all the time and I know the internet is kind of their world a lot of times and anything that we can do to further their safety online I think is a good thing.”
Georgia joins a small band of states complying with guidelines in a 2006 federal law requiring authorities to track internet addresses of sex offenders. But the state is among the first to take the extra step of forcing its 16-thousand offenders to turn in their passwords as well.
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