From John Walsh at AMW
Mr. Walsh has reqested that everyone send this to their representive. To locate yours use this link: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/ just type in your zip code. Dear Member of Congress: I am a constituent who is very concerned about the sex offenders who live in my community. Recently, there have been many stories in the news about how the current sex offender registration and notification laws don't work, and need to be changed. I think it's a matter of life and death that you help your fellow lawmakers make this change to protect our children. I urge you to support legislation, now under consideration in the House of Representatives and the Senate, that would create a more comprehensive system for tracking these offenders, and improve the way information is released about these predators to our communities. Today, there are more than 500,000 sex offenders who are supposed to be registered in the U.S.; however, it's believed that 100,000 of these offenders are 'lost' in the system. We must: Close the loopholes between state programs, so sex offenders can't move from state to state and elude authorities. Provide federal and state funding so law enforcement agencies have the resources to track these predators. Make sure that information about sex offenders is released to all of our communities. Thank you for taking the time to read my views on this issue. The time is now to tighten the tracking of sex offenders, and provide higher standards for notifying people like myself and my neighbors. I don't want one more person who's been convicted of sex crimes to be able to hide from our community and law enforcement, and prey upon our children. Thank you for listening. Sincerely, (Your Name and State) from www.amw.com

From an Email Update: IT PASSED! The Adam Walsh Child Safety Act of 2006 Mark Lunsford has been requested to be present on Thursday July 27th at The White House in Washington DC for the signing of The Adam Walsh Child Safety Act of 2006 by President Bush. This will also be the 25th anniversary of the abduction of Adam Walsh. A day that will go down in history.