A 2008 North Carolina law bans sex offenders from using commercial social networking sites like Facebook that children could join. The law addressed websites that might allow sex offenders to gather information about minors, the state court said. “This North Carolina law keeps registered sex offenders off of social networking websites that kids use without denying the offenders access to the Internet. His state, Nebraska and Indiana have had laws that federal courts ruled violated the free-speech rights of sex offenders. The vast majority of the more than 800,000 sex offenders nationwide are required to register their names, addresses and photographs on registries maintained by states, Clark said.

Source: thestar February 26, 2017 05:15 UTC