Tuesday, July 11, 2006 BY CLAIRE HEININGER Star-Ledger Staff
From blocking social network ing Web sites in schools to tracking suspected child pornographers' credit card transactions, combating the sexual exploitation of children over the Internet is an effort whose scope demands federal legislation, New Jersey Internet safety advocates and law enforcement officials told a congressional investigations committee yesterday in Somerset County.
In the committee's first hearing on the issue held outside of Washington, D.C., witnesses from across the state gathered at Raritan Val ley Community College in North Branch to applaud New Jersey's accomplishments in fighting child predators while also urging Congress to take quick action in addressing what they called a grisly and growing threat.
