More New York Sex Offenders
Removed from Social Networking Sites
13 additional social networking sites have removed more than 4,300 registered sex offenders from their rolls after checking names against New York state's registry.
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today that the offenders had more than 11,700 profiles linked to them on sites like Flickr and Friendster. The sites had agreed in December to check their memberships against the list. MySpace and Facebook had already removed sex offenders.
New York's law requires sex offenders to register their e-mail accounts, screen names and any other Internet identifiers with the state.
Cuomo called for Web sites that cater to children, like Webkinz , to add to their security measures already in place by also agreeing to check with the state list.
Among the registered sex offenders purged from all 15 sites were 33 from Cattaraugus County, 61 from Chautauqua County and 31 from Allegany County.
http://www.ag.ny.gov/media_center/2010/feb/feb02a_10.html
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today that the offenders had more than 11,700 profiles linked to them on sites like Flickr and Friendster. The sites had agreed in December to check their memberships against the list. MySpace and Facebook had already removed sex offenders.
New York's law requires sex offenders to register their e-mail accounts, screen names and any other Internet identifiers with the state.
Cuomo called for Web sites that cater to children, like Webkinz , to add to their security measures already in place by also agreeing to check with the state list.
Among the registered sex offenders purged from all 15 sites were 33 from Cattaraugus County, 61 from Chautauqua County and 31 from Allegany County.
http://www.ag.ny.gov/media_center/2010/feb/feb02a_10.html
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