Senate cracks down on Internet pornography
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- April
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While waiting for budget bills to be produced so they can vote on them, state senators today passed a series of bills designed to crack down on Internet pornography.
The measures would toughen penalties for promoting child prostitution, increase penalties for producing child pornography and provide enhanced penalties where a sex crime against a child has been committed using a computer or computer service, among other steps.
The measures would toughen penalties for promoting child prostitution, increase penalties for producing child pornography and provide enhanced penalties where a sex crime against a child has been committed using a computer or computer service, among other steps.
But it faces an uncertain future in the Assembly, which typically is reluctant to create new categories of crimes.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
