COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina’s attorney general and multiple law enforcement officers gathered Wednesday morning to support a Senate bill designed to streamline child predator investigations.
Senate Bill S.74, known as the Administrative Subpoena Bill, would speed up the process of identifying adults who are sharing or downloading child sexual abuse material, Attorney General spokesman Robert Kittle said.
“We are in a new age of electronic crime,” Sen. Greg Hembree, R – Horry, who sponsored the Senate bill. “Technology has created crimes that we didn’t even imagine 10 years ago. We now have revenge porn, AI child abuse. We have harassment and stalking done electronically now.”
Hembree said that while the law is really targeted toward internet crimes against children, it is a tool that can be used for emerging crimes.