Lawsuit Alleges Cal.'s New Anti-Sex Trafficking Law Limits Online Speech
The ACLU of Northern California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed suit in California today to block enforcement of parts of Proposition 35, a California ballot measure designed to help prevent human sex trafficking.
The ACLU of Northern California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed suit in California today to block enforcement of parts of Proposition 35, a California ballot measure designed to help prevent human sex trafficking.
The law expands the registration requirements for convicted sex offenders, requiring them to notify law enforcement of all of their “Internet identifiers” and “Internet service providers.”
According to the ACLU and the EFF, the law would require the roughly 75,000 convicted sex offenders who live in California to tell law enforcement not only of their Facebook accounts, but of logins used for newspaper and e-commerce sites, for example.
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