Sex offenders will soon have to report their email addresses, user names and other Internet identifiers to police under a bill Governor Jerry Brown signed Wednesday. Law enforcement can use the information only to investigate a sex crime, kidnapping or human trafficking. The bill amends parts of California law enacted in 2012 when voters passed Proposition 35, an anti sex-trafficking law. It increased punishments for human traffickers and expanded the definition of human trafficking to include the creation and distribution of child pornography. In 2014, a federal court sided with a challenge to the law that argued parts of Proposition 35 violated sex offenders’ constitutional rights.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 28, 2016 21:16 UTC