Rep. Nellie Pou once opposed legislation to create an internet sex offender registry and repeatedly stymied a New Jersey state effort to slap tougher penalties on predators.
During her time in the state General Assembly, Pou (D-NJ) voted against a bill in 2001 that would’ve required law enforcement to make the sex offender list available online. She was one of just five to vote against it.
Prior to that, in 2000, she abstained from legislation that required the state Attorney General to “establish and maintain a New Jersey Sex Offender Information Registry.”
That measure passed overwhelmingly, 55–0, but 17 other state lawmakers abstained from…
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