A Kentucky bill for monitoring convicted sex offenders online was approved by a Senate committee Wednesday. An AP story by Joe Biesk explained that under Senate Bill 65, sex offenders must register their screen names or face one to five years in prison (first time), or five to ten years (second). This bill parallels the federal bill in Congress.

GPS tracking bracelets will be worn permanently by offenders that are sexually violent starting July 1 in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Madison Law Professors however, explain the new law is unconstitutional in this AP story by Todd Richmond. The Corrections Department would put the trackers on the offenders after prison release. If an offender goes in a prohibited "zone" the bracelet will alert police.

78 convicted sex offenders were kicked out of public housing in New York on Friday. An AP story explains the offenders were living in the housing illegally and were discovered by comparing a list of public housing residents to the sex offender registry. "Lifetime registrants of a sex offender list may not live in public housing," according to Federal Law.