North Carolina's Approach To Sexual Predators

Recently, North Carolina struck down North Carolina's ban on registered sex offenders using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. had an issue with Cooper notes that there are still laws on the books that investigators can use to charge suspects with soliciting children online. However, he believes we need a law to try to prevent child sex crimes before they happen. "There are laws for soliciting children online and these predators should be convicted to the fullest extent of the law, but that's after the fact," said Cooper. "That's after they have solicited the child. This law works to put a preventive barrier, to prevent that sex offender from going online to start with."

Laws that prohibit Predatory Conduct

One of the laws involve North Carolina's ban on accessing commercial social networking sites by sex offenders is unconstitutional on its face, the court...
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