Former Facebook executive funds anti-trafficking initiative

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Chris Kelly, Facebook's former chief privacy officer, has reportedly contributed $1.6 million to the ballot measure since December. Photo by Lisa Padilla/Flickr.

By Ryan Gabrielson, Bay Citizen

Facebook’s former chief privacy officer is bankrolling an anti-human trafficking ballot measure that would dramatically expand how California monitors sex offenders.

The initiative – called the Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act – would toughen penalties for sex trafficking and add those convicted of the crime to the state’s sex offender registry. Most significantly, it also would require all registered offenders to surrender their “Internet identifiers” to law enforcement, including user names and e-mail accounts.

Read the complete story at Bay Citizen. 

Read additional coverage of human trafficking at sfpublicpress.org/trafficking.

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