Democrats Blocked Sex Offender Legislation For More Than a Year
Katie Pavlich
Posted at 7:22 AM ET, 11/28/2012
Senate Democrats have been sitting on a bill for more than a year
that helps law enforcement quickly track down violent sex offenders. In
March of 2011, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions introduced the Finding
Fugitive Sex Offenders Act in order to give the Marshals Service the
tools it needed to track down sex offenders. Session's legislation had
bipartisan support, 21 cosponsors and was tacked onto the bipartisan
Child Protection Act. Yesterday, the legislation finally passed.
“I am pleased to see my proposal finally pass, and grateful to
Senators Cornyn and Blumenthal for including it in the Child Protection
Act. I introduced the Finding Fugitive Sex Offenders Act in order to
help the U.S. Marshals Service track down sex offenders who fail to
register as required by law and attempt to evade detection. Speed is
critical in child abduction cases. These investigations are often
fast-moving, and I believe this law will prove to be a useful tool to
help law enforcement find missing children. Many other investigative
agencies already have this authority, but curiously it is not available
in these critical situations. Now the Marshals Service can more easily
track these offenders in real time across multiple jurisdictions and
hopefully stop future crimes before they occur," Sessions said in a
statement.
Why does this matter? For two reasons. First, Obama Democrats and the Obama administration have a habit
of going soft on violent sex offenders, specifically sex offenders
targeting children. The second being that the administration and
Democrats in general accused Republicans all year of waging a war on
women, but didn't adopt this legislation until after the election.
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