Public Comments for: HB1027 - Children; use of communication systems to facilitate certain offenses, exception.
Last Name: Achin Organization: Citizens Against Government Entrapment Locality: Prince William

VOTE NO on this bill The VSP currently works with vigilantes associated with Alicia's Project to entrap people. One of our members is currently under review for alleged violations of the sex offender re-registry requirements for having unauthorized social media account and for not reporting employment. Those are false, but not before a SWAT Team kicked in his door, detained him for 90 minutes without a warrant or explanation, took his devices, and, many months later, there are no charges. This is on top of the first abuse of VA Code 18.2-374.3 where he and many others were convicted of computer solicitation of children when in fact they were only lawfully acting looking for adults, not children. NOW VSP does not want unauthorized vigilantes and online trolls to interfere with their investigations, but ANY who do are problematic to them and to public safety. Instead, we should focus on requiring police to have a REAL child present in an online sting, and to have a NON-PUBLIC REGISTRY (If we must have one at all) and that would solve many of these problems,

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