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SCOTUS to Hear Sex Offender Internet Identifier Case

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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether North Carolina can ban registered sex offenders from using social media websites and other sites that allow minors to have accounts.   The North Carolina General Assembly enacted a law in 2008 that bans the use of “commercial social networking websites” by registered sex offenders.

 

Lester Packingham had been convicted six years earlier of a sexual offense and was a registered sex offender under state law.  In 2010, a Durham, N.C., police officer began investigating whether sex offenders in the state were using social media, and found a Facebook profile page belonging to Packingham, according to court records.

 

 

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http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/10/28/sex-offenders-to-lobby-high-court-on-social-media-ban.htm

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