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In short, FOUR our of FIVE registered sex offenders are NOT AFFECTED by the new law!!

The law only applies to the 20% or so of those registered sex offenders who are currently on probation or parole.

Specifically, the bill does NOT apply to the 80% of registered sex offenders NOT on probation or parole!!

The public is again fooled...

Here is the actual bill:

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/09600HB1314enr.htm

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So essentially, if you are convicted of a sex offense after June 1, 2009, you can not use any website designed to connect people if you are on probation, parole, or conditional release.

If you did your time and are registered, then it has no impact on you, at least the way HB 1314 is written.

This was the media jumping on a story before reading what the actual bill states.

If they put restrictions on someone not on probation, parole, or conditional release, it would infringe on the persons rights.

They can require you to register all your online accounts, but can't tell you what you can and can not do. The Social Networks can kick you off their sites if they want, but the state can not monitor that activity, do you know how much it would cost to do that.

Plus they know there is no point and would just cost too much money. ]]>Aug 17th 2009 10:03PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/14/social-networking-sites-off-limits-to-illinois-sex-offenders/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/14/social-networking-sites-off-limits-to-illinois-sex-offenders/]]>Aug 18th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/14/social-networking-sites-off-limits-to-illinois-sex-offenders/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/14/social-networking-sites-off-limits-to-illinois-sex-offenders/
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