CBS NEWS - Mar 2 - Sex offenders in California will have one more
roadblock in their efforts to lure young victims if lawmakers in
Sacramento have anything to do with it. Norma Torres introduced the
bill in January, which would make it a crime for California's 63,000
registered sex offenders to use any social networks. Match.com
spokesperson Amy Canaday said that at this time Match.com does not do
any background searches on its members because there is "no 100%
accurate way to do them." MySpace has an aggressive policy in place to
keep sex offenders of its site. MySpace runs a 24/7 system that looks
for sex offenders using a five-point checklist: first name, last name,
date of birth, gender and zip code. MySpace compares these identifying
criteria with a national list of registered sex offenders, which they
access from the identification verification company Sentinel Tech
Holding. FULL ARTICLE @ CBS NEWS
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