Updated 10:38 pm, Friday, January 11, 2013
Judge blocks sex offender online-ID law
"A federal judge on Friday barred California from enforcing a voter-approved law that requires 73,000 registered sex offenders to disclose their Internet identities to police.
The requirement would discourage offenders from exercising their right to post anonymous comments online about a variety of topics, including social and political issues, with little apparent benefit to public safety, said U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson of San Francisco.
"Registrants are likely to be chilled from engaging in legitimate public, political and civil communications for fear of losing their anonymity," Henderson said."
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-blocks-sex-offender-online-ID-law-4188095.php
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