Senator wants stimulus bill to include Internet predator tracking

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D - Md.)It isn't the same measure as US Rep. Peter King's controversial camera phone bill, but Sen. Barbara Mikulski has now proposed other legislation also aimed at using technology to help thwart sexual predators. Specifically, Mikulski has added $50 million to the Economic Stimulus bill for "Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) initiatives.

The senator's plan calls for using federal investigators to "follow the trail of child pornography traffic back through the Internet to rescue children." Meanwhile, Grier Weeks, executive director of the National Association to Protect Children (NAPC) -- a group that supports the proposal -- is referring to child rescue as an "economic stimulus" activity. "Law enforcement jobs are as important as bridge builders' jobs," he said in a statement today.

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