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Don't Play Politics with Our Kids' Safety

by: Chris Kelly

Thu Mar 04, 2010 at 13:33:49 PM PST


Protecting kids from online predators has always been one of my highest priorities.

While serving as chief counsel for Facebook, I worked with Attorneys General across the nation to help build a safer internet -- and I've seen some of the ideas I've championed enacted into law.

One of those ideas I championed was requiring convicted sex offenders to provide their online identifiers as part of their registrations, and as a result, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was able to announce that more than 3,500 registered New York sex offenders were removed from MySpace and Facebook under the state's "e-STOP" law that we crafted together.

On Tuesday, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris held a public media event to introduce a bill she is sponsoring in the legislature that purports to keep online predators off social networking sites, including Facebook and MySpace.  

But here's the problem: Her bill doesn't do anything that the big sites haven't already done, and there is no real way to enforce its provisions -- which KGO-TV reported on Tuesday. Click here to watch KGO's report on Kamala Harris' flawed plan.

Chris Kelly :: Don't Play Politics with Our Kids' Safety
As I called for last year, we must implement the full "e-STOP" solution here in California -- not feel-good half-measures. We can't afford to play political games with our kids' safety.

Click here to watch a video clip about my efforts to make the Internet safer -- and then urge your legislators to pass "e-STOP" right here in California!

The success of "e-STOP" in New York demonstrates that effective, 21st century law enforcement must embrace new technology, working hand-in-hand with online social networks and other websites to enhance safety.

Under "e-STOP," convicted sex offenders in New York must now share email addresses, screen names, and other Internet identifiers with the state, which the state in turn shares with social networking sites for removal -- going beyond Kamala Harris' inadequate proposal, which does not proactively remove registered sex offenders from the membership rolls of these sites.

We can and should do more. Our "e-STOP" measure worked in New York, and it can work here. I hope you'll join me in getting this important legislation passed.

In order to protect California citizens, it's critical that our next Attorney General understands 21st century public safety issues -- and knows how to apply new technologies and solutions to solve them. Catchy slogans and half-measures aren't enough. I believe I'm the right person for the job, with the the right mix of experience in public policy, technology and law to fight traditional, violent crime as well as "today's crimes" like identity theft and corporate fraud.  

To learn more about my ideas as a candidate for Attorney General, or to share your own ideas, please visit my website at www.kelly2010.com.  

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Didn't facebook get subpoenaed by New York before that legislation was passed for not doing enough to delete sex offender?  

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I hope that link works.


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Isn't Chris Kelly running for Attorney General?  

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Someone on the Editorial Board has to make a call about whether a post is about meaningful policy substance vs. political posturing.  

In the case of any candidate diaries about the AG's race (including Kamala Harris diaries), that's someone other than Brian, as he's working for Kamala Harris (a fully disclosed relationship).

My view is that this diary doesn't reach that threshold, but perhaps a different Editorial board member will feel differently.


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But we're not front-paging every single post made by candidates for office. There are simply too many of them. It would overwhelm the site, especially as June 8 draws nearer.

We'll take a case-by-case look at each candidate/elected diary and decide whether it's worthy of promotion. By "worthy," that is somewhat nebulous and at the discretion of the members of the editorial board (except Brian Leubitz when it comes to posts from AG candidates, where he's recused himself from such discussions). But for me it means the post has to be particularly noteworthy, advance some new idea or proposal, break important news, or is otherwise deserving of being promoted to the front page.

Each time we promote something by a candidate/elected we'll put an explanation as to why we deemed it worthy.

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