By Kansas City InfoZine, 1/7/2012- Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt presented seven recommendations for the legislature to increase the protection of children from violent crime. These recommendations include:

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(1) Enact lifetime no-contact order: In appropriate cases, authorize courts to enter lifetime no-contact orders. These orders would bar offenders from contacting their child victims and would not require periodic renewal.

(2) Prohibit reproduction of child pornography: Amend Kansas law to conform with the federal prohibition on reproducing child pornography for purposes of criminal discovery. This law attempts to prevent the re-victimization of child pornography victims.

(3) Extend the statute of limitations for certain crimes against children, such as certain sexually violent offenses committed against child victims 

(4) Strengthen prohibition on sexual contact between foster parents and foster children by expanding the crime of Unlawful Sexual Relations to include foster parents and contractors in the definition of “position of trust.”

(5) Modify proceedings for sexually violent predators by minimizing the need for child victims to testify at civil commitment proceedings for sexually violent predators.

(6) Clarify the legislative intent for lifetime electronic monitoring, which is part of the initial sentence and not left to the Prisoner Review Board in qualifying Jessica’s Law cases. This would re-establish the original intent of the lifetime electronic monitoring provision in Jessica’s Law.

(7) Expand the Kansas Bureau of Investigation capacity to investigate crimes against children, including cybercrimes throughout the state.
 

Courtesy of the Kansas City InfoZine

Original Article: Kansas Attorney General Recommends Child-protection Laws to Legislature 

Link: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/50265/