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House Approves Stalker Undercover Bill
RALEIGH — The N.C. House has approved a bill that would allow state investigators to go undercover to find stalkers of children on the Internet. The Child Exploitation Prevention Act passed the House unanimously on Wednesday. The Senate had approved the bill earlier, and now it will return to the Senate for concurrence. The bill would make it a felony for an Internet stalker to solicit anyone, including an undercover officer. Under current law, a stalker who solicits an officer posing as a minor could be charged only with a misdemeanor. The measure also would require stalkers to be added to the state’s Sex Offender Registry.