Approving a bill to provide nearly $1 billion over the next five years to test "rape kits," the House yesterday jumped into the long-standing issue of warehoused and untested DNA samples from more...
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Two proposed federal bills aimed at stopping registered sex offenders from using the Internet to prey on children or access child pornography would give local law enforcement officials and more...
President George W. Bush signed a bill yesterday requiring that convicted child molesters be listed on a nationwide Internet registry, an idea that got a boost from research by a Long more...
News of missing children will speed to the public over radio, TV and electronic highway signs in more states under the Amber Alert legislation signed yesterday by President George W. Bush. more...
On April 18, the Supreme Court ruled that parts of a law prohibiting "virtual child pornography" - representations of children and teens having sex that are produced by computer imaging programs more...
The Supreme Court said yesterday it would decide if a federal law prohibiting child pornography illegally infringes on free-speech or other rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The court more...
Two weeks after a Massachusetts girl was allegedly kidnapped and tortured by a Long Island couple, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed providing $25 million in federal funding that would help more...
According to Newsday, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress trampled on states' rights when it passed the Violence Against Women Act allowing rape victims to sue their attackers in federal court. more...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a federal pornography law that makes it a crime to have computer-generated pictures that look like real children engaged in sexual acts, ruling the law more...
A day after the "miraculous" safe return of Elizabeth Smart, several lawmakers joined Ed Smart, the Utah teenager's father, in urging quick passage of a federal Amber Alert bill, which would more...