COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) – South Carolina’s attorney general is calling on state lawmakers to pass a bill he says will help keep more kids safe from online predators.
Alan Wilson, the state’s top prosecutor, said S.74 is commonsense legislation that would cut administrative red tape to ultimately protect children.
“It makes it easier, it makes it more efficient, it makes it quicker for us to go after child predators,” Wilson said in an interview. “We’re trying to keep up with the bad guys, and unfortunately, there’s a lot of them out there.”
When investigators are looking into people they believe are uploading or downloading child sex abuse material from the internet, the information that is available to them is typically only an IP address, a unique, identifying number that every device connected to the internet has.