I came across this while checking out the [URL=http://www.iema.org/]Entertainment Merchants Association[/URL] website. Not sure if any of you had heard about this or not so I thought I'd bring it up and see what everyone had to say on the matter.

[QUOTE]Illinois Sex Offender Law Revision

A bill before the Illinois legislature (House Bill 40) would have required any retail clerk convicted of distributing to a minor material that is legally "harmful to minors" (i.e., obscene as to minors) to register as a sex offender for 10 years. Working with the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, we made the legislature aware of our concerns with this proposal, as a clerk who makes a mistake in selling or renting such material to a minor should not treated the same as a rapist or child molester. We were also concerned because we have seen clerks threatened with prosecution under the "harmful to minors" laws for selling or renting an R-rated DVD to a minor. The bill failed to make it out of committee before the deadline for action; it, therefore, is now inactive (but could potentially be revived).[/QUOTE]