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Bush Signs Bill to Keep Tabs on Convicted Child Molesters
7/27/06 - President Bush, joined by "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh, signed a new law Thursday that requires convicted child molesters to be listed on a national Internet database and face a felony charge for failing to update their whereabouts.
"Our nation grieves with every family that's suffered the unbearable pain of a child whose been abducted or abused," Bush said in a bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden. "This law takes an important step forward in this country's efforts to protect those who cannot protect themselves."
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Elizabeth Smart Champions New Sex Offender Registry Bill
7/18/06 - "We have 500,000 sex offenders in this country — 150,000 we don't even know where they are," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who is sponsoring the bill. "We got to check the Web a lot more, because that is where so many of them find their victims."
In addition, under the bill, states would get money to outfit sex offenders with tracking devices and funding would be provided to create a national database of sex offenders.
Hatch said that those who failed to register would have a cuff placed on their ankles to monitor their activities.