From: "Phillipa Chantry" <aussiepip2617@...>
Subject:

Senate Approves Sexual Predator Registry

Thursday, July 28, 2005
San Francisco Chronicle, CA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
f=/n/a/2005/07/28/national/w174336D13.DTL

(07-28) 17:43 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Senate voted Thursday to
set up a national sex offender database that would be available on
the Internet and require strict monitoring of high-risk sex
offenders for a year after their release from prison.

The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., is known
as "Dru's Law" for Dru Sjodin, a 22-year-old University of North
Dakota student who was abducted from a shopping mall and killed in
2003.

Senators approved the bill by voice vote. An identical version is
pending in the House Judiciary Committee.

The man charged with abducting Sjodin and killing her, Alfonso
Rodriguez Jr., is a convicted sex offender who had been released
from prison just six months before she disappeared.

The bill is designed to compensate for a patchwork of state laws
that have hindered searches for sexual predators when they cross
state lines. It would create a national sex offender registry that
would allow the public to search by ZIP code across state lines.

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The bills are S.792 and H.R.95



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