By Nicole Vella
“ What made you sponsor the bill to track a sex offender’s online activity.”
David Mejias: “Predators right now are using technology to pray on our kids and other people quite frankly, so we want to make sure that the same technology that they use to prey on their victims were going to turn the tables and use it on them now. We want to make sure that they cant do it again and if you are on probation and are a sex offender you will have software in your computer where probation can monitor at any time when you’ve been online. We get e-mail alerts when they have been to a site that is inappropriate.”
“ Are there different restrictions for different levels of sex offenders?”
David Mejias: “The highest level sex offenders have the restriction, and those who are on probation.”
“Do you feel that sex offenders, once they served their time in prison have a right to live near schools?”
David Mejias: “Well the rate of recidivism for sex offenders is so high that we want to make sure that these sex offenders can’t be tempted to commit the same crimes again, so these residency restrictions have been upheld constitutionally in Iowa and Alabama and we tailored our bill so that it can survive any type of court case or constitutional screening. “
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