Georgia Attorney General Among Coalition to Amend Federal Law | WABE 90.1 FM

Georgia attorney general Sam Olens has joined forty-eight other attorneys general urging Congress to amend a federal law to help states fight the use of the internet for prostitution and child sex trafficking.

Their request is aimed at amending the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

Olens says websites like backpage.com use the first amendment to escape responsibility of making sure minors are protected from exploitation.

“They’ll accept ads that say words like young or tender. And by definition the folks that are responding to the ad understand that those words generally mean less than eighteen.”

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