BILL AIMS TO CREATE WEB PAGE WITH FUGITIVES, MISSING CHILDREN.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Computer users might soon be able to surf through thousands of California "most wanted Most Wanted may refer to:
A bill pending in the Legislature would let the state Justice Department spend $145,000 to create a Web page that would list criminals, children and crimes from around the state, complete with pictures and, in some cases, video. "It's going from the days of Matt Dillon
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"The Internet is now a tool law enforcement can use to get information out to the public," Attorney General Dan Lungren said at a Capitol news conference Thursday. The bill would require Lungren's Justice Department to maintain a Internet directory of people wanted for more than 90 days on felony warrants, of missing children, and of unsolved homicides. The information would be provided by police and sheriff's departments around the state. Lungren estimated that the page could contain 5,000 to 10,000 fugitives and 1,000 missing children. Lungren's staff demonstrated a prototype for the Web page - Lungren said he himself is "not computer literate." The World Wide Web is a portion of the Internet that uses text and pictures to easily link varied information. In the prototype, a computer user with Internet access could start at a Justice Department Web page, which does not yet exist but is planned for operation in June, then, for example, could look for fugitives, searching by name, city, or date. Reward amounts would be listed for each fugitive. "We have some incentive," Lungren said. Anyone knowing something about a fugitive could contact the police or sheriff's department listed. The concept is not a new one. The Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency. lists its most wanted criminals on its Web page, as do at least three other states: Florida, Illinois and Tennessee. Six of the 24 California city police departments that have Web pages list their most wanted criminals. They are Palo Alto, Eureka, Irvine, Yuba City, San Carlos and Tustin. San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. County is the only one of three counties on the Web that lists most wanted.
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