What is this Jesica's Law? It went in to effect on July 1,2006

Jessica's law refers to the Jessica Lunsford act passed by Florida legislators as a response to the brutal and preventable crime in the kidnapping and murder of 9 year-old Jessica Lundford.

John Couey, a registered sex offender who police lost track of weeks before the crime took place, later confessed to this crime. He was staying with his sister 150 yards away from Jessica's home.

Florida legislators created the Jessica Lunsford act H1877 which you can read in full at www.flSenate.gov under 2005 session Bill# 1877

Most all States in the US are considering or have already adopted some form of Jessica's Law.

In Kansas HB 2576 is named as Jessica's Law and establishes mandatory minimum sentences for first time sex offenders titled "Hard 25 First time offenders" and this bill also includes a number of changes regarding sex offenders.

This bill would create a new crime of electronic solicitation defined to include communication conducted through the telephone, internet, or by other electronic means which involves enticing or soliciting a person whom the offender believes to be a child, to commit or submit to an unlawful sexual act. If the child is believed to be under 14 years of age, the penalty would be a level 1 person felony. If the child is believed to be 14 or 15 years of age, the penalty would be a level 3 person felony.

These are significant changes for Kansas.

More information can be found

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/ksleg/KLRD/ConfCommBriefs.htm
Look for HB2576

Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic violence
http://www.kcsdv.org/

Currently in the news is California proposition 83 which is on the November 2006 ballot. There is much debate and controversy over proposition 83.

The California Coalition on Sexual Offending (www.ccoso.org)