California State Senator Sharon Runner is proposing a law that would require registered sex offenders to provide law enforcement with their online names, email addresses, and social networking sites. This type of law has been in effect for some time now in North Carolina. I call it the dumbfish law because while it does catch a few ‘dumb fish’ in the net it’s largely ineffective.

Not only are these types of laws designed mostly as either knee jerk reaction or voter appeasement they don’t address the real issue with inline predators which are inattentive parents.

Not only would sex offenders give law enforcement phony online identities it does nothing about the sexual predators that haven’t been caught yet.