US Senate approves online sex offender database

The US Senate has voted to set up a national sex offender database available on the internet and for strict monitoring of high-risk sex offenders for a year after the leave prison.

The legislation, sponsored by Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, is known as “Dru’s Law” for Dru Sjodin, a 22-year-old University of North Dakota student who was abducted from a shopping mall and killed in 2003.