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Jack Kingston: “Again, just to do my duty to the constituents back home, particularly victims of crime, what I am concerned about, if a…”

On the recordJanuary 24, 1995
Again, just to do my duty to the constituents back home, particularly victims of crime, what I am concerned about, if a rapist moves from Georgia to California under current law, he is not tracked. Under the crime bill, he will be tracked. And under this bill, without that amendment, he will still be tracked. We may need to come back, as we always have to, and revisit something down the road. But I do not think that this legislation will diminish the fact that that rapist would be tracked moving from California to Georgia.
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Jack Kingston
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Discussing the tracking of rapists under proposed crime legislation.

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