WASHINGTON: America's registered child sex offenders will now have to use passports identifying them for their past crimes when traveling overseas. The State Department said Wednesday it would begin revoking passports of registered child sex offenders and will require them to apply for a new one that carries a “unique identifier” of their status. The law is named for Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old girl murdered by a convicted child sex offender in New Jersey in 1994. That agency is charged with identifying child sex offenders and is the sole agency that can add or remove someone from the list. State Department officials said they weren't aware of any other group of felons who'll be identified as offenders in their passports.

Source: Bangkok Post November 02, 2017 10:36 UTC