Time to alert the parents:

NEW YORK - New York City prosecutors have endorsed the United States’ first proposed law to ban registered sex offenders from social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, officials said.NYC may boot sex predators off Facebook, MySpace (The New Zealand Herald)

In an age where younger and younger children are allowed access to personal computers and unsupervised online freedoms, child Internet safety is a growing concern.Highway Patrol cruises MySpace (Meramec Journal)

A Bullitt County father who said his 17-year-old daughter killed herself after being bullied on the Internet is backing a bill designed to crack down on Internet child predators. Mark Neblett of Mount Washington calls House Bill 367 “icing on the cake” in his efforts in the last year to win legislative approval for another measure to require school districts to have policies in place to deal …Legislation targets child predators on Internet (Lexington Herald-Leader)

I’m starting to feel really old. And this has nothing to do with the fact that high heels seem more like torture devices every year, or how some of the latest music sounds increasingly like noise.MySpace and the like changing social habits (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)

Legislators, law enforcement officials and children’s advocates from Monroe County have endorsed pending state legislation that would restrict sex offenders from using the Internet to contact children.Officials hail bill to stop Internet sex predators (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

Internet social networking sites can be “portals to hell.”Keeping predators at bay (The Bolingbrook Sun)