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Arrests of Texas Sex Offenders with MySpace Profiles

Texas officials recently arrested seven convicted sex offenders in various cities across the state who were violating their parole or probation by using the social networking website, MySpace.com. Some of the offender’s computers were also sezied.

MySpace.com released the offender’s names to the Texas Attorney General’s Office after receiving a subpoena for the subscriber information. After much criticism for its failure to protect underage subscribers, MySpace supplied names of offenders to attorney generals in other states after checking the criminal histories through Sentinel Safe, a database of registered sex offenders.

The investigation has yet to show any connection, such as dialogue with young persons, between the offenders and potential victims on MySpace.com.

Source:  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4889983.html