Source: floridaactioncommittee.org 12/21/22
International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders (IML) was supposed to be a tool for the federal government to notify other countries regarding the international travel of sex offenders. In theory, it was supposed to authorize federal agents to provide warnings in the form of a “green notice” to the receiving country. By providing this notice, the receiving country could protect their children from sexual abuse.
The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Smith said, “With its international law enforcement relations, technological and communications capability, and established sex offender registry system, the United States must lead the global community in the effort to save thousands of potential child victims by notifying other countries of travel by sex offenders who pose a high risk of exploiting children overseas. In turn, we must impress upon other countries that they are expected to do the same. Children everywhere deserve no less.”
That was the theory… In practice, IML has been a miserable failure. Perhaps the most glaring example; yesterday, a formal Federal Agent was sentenced to 124 months in prison for traveling to the Philippines to sexually assault a 14 year old.
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Please write to your representative in congress and ask them to abolish IML: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
