112 STAT. 2990
PUBLIC LAW 105-314—OCT. 30, 1998
TITLE VIII—RESTRICTED ACCESS TO
INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICES
18 USC 4042
note.
Deadline.
SEC. 801. PRISONER ACCESS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no agency, officer,
or employee of the United States shall implement, or provide any
financial assistance to, any Federal program or Federal activity
in which a Federal prisoner is allowed access to any electronic
communication service or remote computing service without the
supervision of an official of the Federal Government.
SEC. 802. RECOMMENDED PROHIBITION.
(a) FINDINGS. —Congress finds that—
(1) a Minnesota State prisoner, serving 23 years for molesting teenage girls, worked for a nonprofit work and education
program inside the prison, through which the prisoner had
unsupervised access to the Internet;
(2) the prisoner, through his unsupervised access to the
Internet, trafficked in child pornography over the Internet;
(3) Federal law enforcement authorities caught the prisoner
with a computer disk containing 280 pictures of juveniles
engaged in sexually explicit conduct;
(4) a jury found the prisoner guilty of conspiring to trade
in child pornography and possessing child pornography;
(5) the United States District Court for the District of
Minnesota sentenced the prisoner to 87 months in Federal
prison, to be served upon the completion of his 23-year State
prison term; and
(6) there has been an explosion in the use of the Internet
in the United States, further placing our Nation's children
at risk of harm and exploitation at the hands of predators
on the Internet and increasing the ease of trafficking in child
pornography.
(b) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS. —It is the sense of the Congress
that State Governors, State legislators, and State prison administrators should prohibit unsupervised access to the Internet by State
prisoners.
SEC. 803. SURVEY.
(a) SURVEY. —Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall conduct a survey
of the States to determine to what extent each State allows prisoners access to any interactive computer service and whether such
access is supervised by a prison official.
(b) REPORT. —The Attorney General shall submit a report to
Congress of the findings of the survey conducted pursuant to subsection (a).
(c) STATE DEFINED. —In this section, the term "State" means
each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia.
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